The world is coming to an end- at least according to Hollywood. Thankfully, when the world does end, us movie-going humans will have more than a few tricks for survival up our charred sleeves, thanks to the heroes of these post-apocalyptic movies.
The post-apocalypse is at the forefront of cinema again with the rebirth of Mad Max in Fury Road and the upcoming post-alien invasion The 5th Wave and we’re eating it up. We’re not arguing with the National Board of Review’s choice in naming Mad Max: Fury Road the year’s best film (squarely on the missing arm of Furiosa, if you ask us).
Whether you’re facing the vast post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of water with a bad-ass leader like Furiosa or navigating the nuclear badlands and avoiding those feral ghouls in Fallout 4, these post-apocalypse-set movies will show you the way to survival.
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The post-apocalypse is at the forefront of cinema again with the rebirth of Mad Max in Fury Road and the upcoming post-alien invasion The 5th Wave and we’re eating it up. We’re not arguing with the National Board of Review’s choice in naming Mad Max: Fury Road the year’s best film (squarely on the missing arm of Furiosa, if you ask us).
Whether you’re facing the vast post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of water with a bad-ass leader like Furiosa or navigating the nuclear badlands and avoiding those feral ghouls in Fallout 4, these post-apocalypse-set movies will show you the way to survival.
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- 12/9/2015
- by Rachel West
- Cineplex
First look promo trailers have arrived for two high profile shows airing soon. First up, Syfy has released an extended trailer for its TV drama series take on Terry Gilliam's acclaimed time travel film "12 Monkeys" with Aaron Stanford taking over the role of Cole. That series is slated to debut January 16th in the United States.
Then there's the trailer for the first season of "Babylon", Danny Boyle's series about Scotland Yard and the new American PR agent brought in to improve its image. A telemovie pilot aired earlier this year, and now the full six episode series will air on UK's Channel 4 from November 13th with the likes of Brit Marling ("The Sound of My Voice"), James Nesbitt ("The Hobbit"), Nick Blood ("Agents of Shield"), Paterson Joseph ("Jekyll"), and Nicola Walker ("Spooks") reprising their roles.
Then there's the trailer for the first season of "Babylon", Danny Boyle's series about Scotland Yard and the new American PR agent brought in to improve its image. A telemovie pilot aired earlier this year, and now the full six episode series will air on UK's Channel 4 from November 13th with the likes of Brit Marling ("The Sound of My Voice"), James Nesbitt ("The Hobbit"), Nick Blood ("Agents of Shield"), Paterson Joseph ("Jekyll"), and Nicola Walker ("Spooks") reprising their roles.
- 10/30/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.
Getting sick sucks, getting the plague… that’s horror film territory. This week, Steven Soderbergh releases his Contagion (starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and everyone else in Hollywood) into movie theaters. Hopefully it’ll catch on! Get it? Because you catch a disease and… Ok. Here are the Top 7 Movie Epidemics.
7. Outbreak (1995)
Recap: An all-star disaster movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland about an Ebola-like virus. A bunch of people get infected with “Motaba” after coming into contact with an infected primate. Only an Usamriid virologist and a Cdc investigator have the tenacity and the balls to save the world from a deadly outbreak.
Reason: This movie fits the bill for this top 7 list perfectly. Too bad it’s so disappointing. It didn’t help that I had read Richard Preston’s The...
Getting sick sucks, getting the plague… that’s horror film territory. This week, Steven Soderbergh releases his Contagion (starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and everyone else in Hollywood) into movie theaters. Hopefully it’ll catch on! Get it? Because you catch a disease and… Ok. Here are the Top 7 Movie Epidemics.
7. Outbreak (1995)
Recap: An all-star disaster movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland about an Ebola-like virus. A bunch of people get infected with “Motaba” after coming into contact with an infected primate. Only an Usamriid virologist and a Cdc investigator have the tenacity and the balls to save the world from a deadly outbreak.
Reason: This movie fits the bill for this top 7 list perfectly. Too bad it’s so disappointing. It didn’t help that I had read Richard Preston’s The...
- 9/8/2011
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
David Mackenzie‘s made a career out of telling small, intense stories on small, economical budgets. With Perfect Sense he goes somewhere only a few filmmakers have dared to traverse: low-budget science fiction. For every Duncan Jones (Moon) success story are 10 Danny Boyle (Sunshine) way over budget cautionary tales.
Mackenzie talked with Tfs about the ambitiously optimistic tone of his dire scientific fable, the benefit of working with familiar faces and two new projects he’s excited about, one of them another foray into science fiction.
Tfs: What was it that interested you in this particular script?
Mackenzie: Well, I had just been in America making a movie and I went back home and I was working at my production company, Sigma Films, again and then it was pretty much like a week after I’d arrived back from L.A. and the script came to me from the Danish film company,...
Mackenzie talked with Tfs about the ambitiously optimistic tone of his dire scientific fable, the benefit of working with familiar faces and two new projects he’s excited about, one of them another foray into science fiction.
Tfs: What was it that interested you in this particular script?
Mackenzie: Well, I had just been in America making a movie and I went back home and I was working at my production company, Sigma Films, again and then it was pretty much like a week after I’d arrived back from L.A. and the script came to me from the Danish film company,...
- 1/31/2011
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
DreamWorks Animation is devleoping Monkeys of Bollywood, the studios first animated musical!
They have tapped composer A.R. Rahman, Broadway lyricist Stephen Schwartz and husband-and-wife producing team Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges to fast-track the project to be set in Mumbai.
The Ramayana, an epic Hindu poem, is the inspiration for the Bollywood-style animated musical that revolves around two monkeys who try to stop an ancient demon from conquering the world.
Here is what Scwartz had to say about the project:
"As soon as I heard that DreamWorks Animation envisioned making an animated Bollywood movie, I knew I wanted to be a part of it. The fact that A.R. Rahman got involved made it an even more exciting project."
Bill Damaschke creative officer at DreamWorks Animation is set to oversee the project along with development exec Chris Kuser. Chadha and Berges have been involved with such films as Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice.
They have tapped composer A.R. Rahman, Broadway lyricist Stephen Schwartz and husband-and-wife producing team Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges to fast-track the project to be set in Mumbai.
The Ramayana, an epic Hindu poem, is the inspiration for the Bollywood-style animated musical that revolves around two monkeys who try to stop an ancient demon from conquering the world.
Here is what Scwartz had to say about the project:
"As soon as I heard that DreamWorks Animation envisioned making an animated Bollywood movie, I knew I wanted to be a part of it. The fact that A.R. Rahman got involved made it an even more exciting project."
Bill Damaschke creative officer at DreamWorks Animation is set to oversee the project along with development exec Chris Kuser. Chadha and Berges have been involved with such films as Bend It Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice.
- 1/12/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Catch .44
Opens: 2011
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll
Director: Aaron Harvey
Summary: The story focuses on three women being thrust into an extraordinary situation involving a psychopathic hitman, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.
Analysis: Oddly little is known about this indie crime comedy aside from the three lead female roles have gone through more than a couple of rounds of casting musical chairs. The likes of Maggie Grace, Kate Mara, Laura Ramsey, Sarah Roemer, Lizzy Caplan and Lauren German were all attached at one point or another before the final trio of Malin Akerman ("Watchmen"), Nikki Reed ("Twilight") and Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") were settled on.
Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Michael Rosenbaum and Brad Dourif also star with Willis as a crime boss behind everything that happens and Whitaker as a dangerously unstable assassin. Aaron Harvey, who last directed...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll
Director: Aaron Harvey
Summary: The story focuses on three women being thrust into an extraordinary situation involving a psychopathic hitman, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.
Analysis: Oddly little is known about this indie crime comedy aside from the three lead female roles have gone through more than a couple of rounds of casting musical chairs. The likes of Maggie Grace, Kate Mara, Laura Ramsey, Sarah Roemer, Lizzy Caplan and Lauren German were all attached at one point or another before the final trio of Malin Akerman ("Watchmen"), Nikki Reed ("Twilight") and Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") were settled on.
Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Michael Rosenbaum and Brad Dourif also star with Willis as a crime boss behind everything that happens and Whitaker as a dangerously unstable assassin. Aaron Harvey, who last directed...
- 12/23/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Catch .44
Opens: 2011
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll
Director: Aaron Harvey
Summary: The story focuses on three women being thrust into an extraordinary situation involving a psychopathic hitman, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.
Analysis: Oddly little is known about this indie crime comedy aside from the three lead female roles have gone through more than a couple of rounds of casting musical chairs. The likes of Maggie Grace, Kate Mara, Laura Ramsey, Sarah Roemer, Lizzy Caplan and Lauren German were all attached at one point or another before the final trio of Malin Akerman ("Watchmen"), Nikki Reed ("Twilight") and Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") were settled on.
Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Michael Rosenbaum and Brad Dourif also star with Willis as a crime boss behind everything that happens and Whitaker as a dangerously unstable assassin. Aaron Harvey, who last directed...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Akerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll
Director: Aaron Harvey
Summary: The story focuses on three women being thrust into an extraordinary situation involving a psychopathic hitman, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.
Analysis: Oddly little is known about this indie crime comedy aside from the three lead female roles have gone through more than a couple of rounds of casting musical chairs. The likes of Maggie Grace, Kate Mara, Laura Ramsey, Sarah Roemer, Lizzy Caplan and Lauren German were all attached at one point or another before the final trio of Malin Akerman ("Watchmen"), Nikki Reed ("Twilight") and Deborah Ann Woll ("True Blood") were settled on.
Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, Michael Rosenbaum and Brad Dourif also star with Willis as a crime boss behind everything that happens and Whitaker as a dangerously unstable assassin. Aaron Harvey, who last directed...
- 12/23/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
- 11/8/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
- 11/8/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
- 11/8/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
There are many theories, ideas or should I say 'schools of thought' on how the world would end. At the height of the Cold War, nuclear annihilation ranks at the very top. While others argue it will not be man who will destroy the world (directly) but - an epidemic of global proportions (most probably from a potent strain of virus - think: I am Legend) or severe climactic change (another ice age perhaps? That would be Day After Tommorow right?) or mechanical uprising (The Terminator, anyone?) or even attack from the outside - conquering aliens (Mars Attacks!) or perhaps an asteroid. And let's not forget zombies!
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
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- - - Inspired by the upcoming release of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster epic 2012, tMF listed down 10 of the most fascinating 'end of the world' movies.
Before looking at the list, you need to know that it's not based...
- 11/8/2009
- by modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
- The Movie Fanatic
Two of our forum moderators make bold Academy Awards predictions here while forecasting tomorrow's Oscars nominations. I've pitted them against each other: Chris "Boomer" Beachum and Robert "Rob L" Licuria.
Best Picture
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - Rl, Cb
"The Dark Knight" - Rl
"Frost/Nixon" - Rl, Cb
"Milk" - Rl, Cb
"The Reader" - Cb
"Slumdog Millionaire" - Rl, Cb (Winner = Rl, Cb)
Rob's Commentary: I am reluctant to pick "The Dark Knight" over what I feel will most likely be in that fifth Oscars slot –- "Gran Torino" (or "The Reader" at a stretch). However, with the almost across-the-board guild support, and the tech branches seemingly behind this film, I am backing it to break through and take that fifth slot. It would be a great day to see any of the other four so-called "locks" not make the grade, as these kinds of surprises...
Best Picture
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - Rl, Cb
"The Dark Knight" - Rl
"Frost/Nixon" - Rl, Cb
"Milk" - Rl, Cb
"The Reader" - Cb
"Slumdog Millionaire" - Rl, Cb (Winner = Rl, Cb)
Rob's Commentary: I am reluctant to pick "The Dark Knight" over what I feel will most likely be in that fifth Oscars slot –- "Gran Torino" (or "The Reader" at a stretch). However, with the almost across-the-board guild support, and the tech branches seemingly behind this film, I am backing it to break through and take that fifth slot. It would be a great day to see any of the other four so-called "locks" not make the grade, as these kinds of surprises...
- 1/22/2009
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
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