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Sci-Fi and Nerd Worlds
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:04 PM |
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 Avatar is a fantastic movie, not legendarily great, but then I didn’t see it in 3D. I saw it in boring old 2D. I also didn’t have the privilege of having my avatar watch the film, which would have been cool if I could have laid on the sofa at home and sent my “avatar” to drive to the cinema, maybe pick up a six-pack on the way home. But, I am getting ahead of myself.
The film takes place in the year 2154 and in the Alpha Centauri star system. We find the RDA corporation mining Pandora, a beautiful Earth-like nature preserve orbiting the planet Polyphemus. The humans aim to exploit Pandora’s reserves of a valuable mineral called unobtanium. Gung-ho Jarheads provide security to the mining operation.
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 04:19 PM |
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 Bruce Willis and M. Night Shyamalan form an unbreakable combination. Well, at least so in the universally heralded Sixth Sense, which actually scared the bejesus out of me in a creepy way. I am glad to say: I think the combo works fine here too, though this is a film not really of the shriek variety and not on the same greatness level, otherworldly or not, that Sixth Sense achieved. Nonetheless, this is a damn good movie.
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X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008) |
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Movie Reviews -
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Sunday, July 12, 2009 11:27 AM |
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 This nearly decade after the first installment of X-Files: Fight The Future (1999) is a worthy film for the genre. You need not be a fan of the original TV Series or even knowledgeable about it, but it surely helps. In this X-Flick we are reunited with FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who have since both retired from the FBI, but whose services are sought in one form or another, to help solve a perplexing crime. For fans of the series, it is hard not to enjoy both Duchovny and Anderson reprising their famous roles.
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 02:19 PM |
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Men in Black stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as MIB agents “J” and “K” respectively. In this science-fiction comedy, MIBs are part of a secret government organization called “Division 6.” It is their task to keep tabs on all the extraterrestrial aliens gallivanting about Earth. Earth is designated a sort of neutral galactic planet and haven for all sorts of beings from squid-like creatures to little talking dogs that intermingle with humans incognito. Even celebrities are shown to be aliens such as Sylvester Stallone and Al Rooker among others. But you knew that or suspected it all along! |
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Written by Matthew J. DeReno
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Monday, November 12, 2007 12:00 AM |
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The epic Sci-Fi drama War of the Worlds, a remake of a 1953 version, starts with the voice of Morgan Freeman doing it’s thing, acting smart and dispassionate, displaying all the pent up subtlety and wisdom of a guy that had to drive Miss Daisy for a time being but now gets to do cool intros to movies involving alien assaults on Earth. Such are the beginning credits of War of the Worlds, an elaborate, at times engaging, effort by a master filmmaker, Stephen Spielberg. |
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