Oct 31, 2009 | Sunday Times
It is not the best sci-fi movie of the year, but dedicated fans will want to see it.
Someone hearing your scream in space is the least of your problems when suspended animation goes way wrong, as astronaut Bower found out in 'Pandorum.a Universal Pictures photo Loan officer Christine Brown unearths Mrs.
Since his breakout role on HBO's Six Feet Under, Ben Foster has appeared in one highprofile feature film after another.
'President' commands Korean weekend boxoffice
"Good Morning President," this year's Pusan film festival opener and actor Jang Dong-kun's comeback film, topped the Korean weekend boxoffice attracting 816,600 admissions on 671 screens since opening Thursday.
Good Morning President Comedy / 132 / Korean Director Jang Jin s Good Morning President pokes fun at politics and the personal lives of fictional political figures.
Horror films hold a special place in the world of movie genres. They are a silver screen mainstay, cherished for their bottomless pit of character possibilities from brain eating zombies to teen-hating hatchetmen and ghouls from galaxies far away.
Movies still playing in the Fredericksburg area
HHH "CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS" 3-D" With creativity and fun by the boatload, this animated story about a young inventor who makes food fall from the sky is a great movie for kids and parents.
casting Two Join Statham's 'Mechanic'
New additions to the action remake starring Jason Statham. Pandorum star Ben Foster and veteran actor Donald Sutherland are set to join Jason Statham in The Mechanic , a remake of the Charles Bronson vehicle.
"Wild Things" poised to top weekend box office
Three new wide releases -- two thrillers and a film adaptation of a best-selling children's book -- will vie for the weekend's box-office crown, with "Where the Wild Things Are" likely to fetch more than $25 million and lead the pack.
Alien + Resident Evil = Pandorum?
"Pandorum" stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster as flight officers on a spaceship full of civilians heading to a new Earth-like planet .
It is 30 years since Ridley Scott's Alien burst on to cinema screens and introduced us to Ellen Ripley, chestbursters and body horror The other week I went to see a science-fiction thriller called Pandorum which opens a ' rather memorably a ' with a scene in which a befuddled Dennis Quaid falls out of a space-pod dressed only in his underpants.
Newborn Dead: I want to go to ZOMBIELAND
Every once in awhile I can say "horror just gets better and better" and I can recall applying this "thought to self" the first time I saw THE SHINING or even way back when THE EXORCIST made everyone scream.
AN UNLIKELY duo become the only survivors in a world overrun by zombies in the comedy horror Zombieland .
This week's cinema highlights - 09.10.09
THIS week cinema fans will awaken the dead with the release of Zombieland, a comedy horror starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Bill Murray.
Movie review: New movies focus on aging characters, survival
A lot of science/fiction futuristic movies have played recently at Rogers Cinema.
The Messenger Trailer: All Hail Ben Foster
As we were scouring the web the other day, we came across a list on the Oscar-prognosticating website In Contention that ranked the top 10 actors under the age of 30 .
Trailer for the Messenger Starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson
Sometimes dreams really do come true and the amazing Ben Foster, one of the best actors not headline movies, is finally headlining movies.A He was the only draw for me to see "Pandorum" and if the response to that movie wasn't so overwhelmingly negative , I would've seen it.A But I'll definitely be in line to see "The Messenger" where he plays a ...
Movies: Strong start, disappointing end for - Pandorum'
"Pandorum," a new science-fiction film, flirts with greatness with an impressive first half filled with thrills and great pacing.
CINEMA: What's coming up... Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (TBC) Release...
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Film reviews: Beaches of Agn s | Passchendaele | Pandorum | Chiko | The Spell
A WONDERFUL, warm, witty and insightful cinematic memoir from the godmother of the French new wave, AgnA s Varda, this finds the 81-year-old self-styled "little old lady" foraging through her past to show how her life and encounters shaped her films a nd made her who she is.
'Pandorum' comes off as a lively mess
Quick show of hands: who's always dreamed of flying through space for destinations and adventures unknown? -- Times, theaters.
Dennis Quaid, left, and Cam Gigandet appear in "Pandorum." Nine reasons why "Pandorum" is easily categorized as a B-movie: 1. It's set on a spaceship, recalling "Alien," "Sunshine," "2001" and countless other films.
This week's cinema highlights - 02.10.09
THIS week sees the release of The Invention of Lying, a comedy directed by, co-written by and starring Ricky Gervais.
'Surrogates' hard to swallow; `Pandorum' offers suspense
Usually I am generous in dispensing belief while viewing movies, particularly science-fiction and horror films, but "Surrogates," featuring Bruce Willis, was so preposterous in its premise that I was disconnected throughout.
In apocalyptic fiction, the end of the world often includes a remnant hope. Perhaps such a hope is included because we can't imagine the total annihilation of humanity, regardless of the fact that in most such fiction it is our own behaviors that cause our destruction.
Sheer fright drew Quaid to space flick
He may have had The Right Stuff , and ventured through the human body in Innerspace , but Dennis Quaid's flight path is veering into space horror with the just opened Pandorum .
Pandorum Is Hollywooda s Answer To My Prayers
Science fiction movies usually tend to have the same recurring theme, a few brave men and women trapped in a scary surrounding, an unknown until now alien species hunting them while they hunt it, and dark recesses of the ship that until required to walk or run through were never shown on camera before.
As a film addict, I am almost never in the awkward position of having little or nothing to watch.
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