Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.05.14] post apocalyptic scifi adventure


Before The Road Warrior steered the genre towards mohawked mutants and hockey masked Humunguses, apocalyptic films enjoyed a period of severe cultural examination. Particularly during those heady days of the 1970s, when the New Cinema movement vowed to make movies about only "serious" issues, was it rare to see a film about Armageddon that didn't try to offer some p... [Continue reading (6 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.05.14] post apocalyptic action adventure

Turbo Kid started as an entry for The first ABCs of Death competition and, while it may not have made the cut, it captured the attention of a few folks including the good people at EMAfilms, Jason Eisener and ABCs co-producer Ant Timpson who all came together to finance a full length feature version of the fun 80s throwback. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.04.14] horror thriller

Eli Roth's next film, Knock Knock will premiere as part of the Midnight section at January's Sundance Film Fest and the first images from the film have appeared online. [Continue reading (4 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.04.14] post apocalyptic scifi action thriller adventure

Paramount Pictures has released the official trailer for Alan Taylor‘s Terminator: Genisys and it will twits your mind into knots. [Continue reading (7 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.03.14] post apocalyptic scifi thriller adventure

When we heard Asiel Norton, director of the brilliant art-house western Redland (Review), was working on a post-apocalyptic fairy tale called Orion, we knew it would be something special. That was more than two years ago, when the film's star David Arquette tweeted a crazy photo of himself dressed up like a junkyard Zardoz. We weren't really sure what to think, but we... [Continue reading (3 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 12.03.14] action thriller

The names Tim Doiron and April Mullen should be familiar to long time readers of Quiet Earth. We've been following the exploits of this Canadian writing/directing team for some time and they've yet to steer us wrong. Sure, some of their material is more tongue-in-cheek than some might like but they've always managed to entertain yet, for their new feature, the pair se... [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Cathode Ray Mission 12.03.14] drama

For a few years now, book lovers have been hearing buzz about Lev Grossman's "The Magicians" series. Described to me as a smutty, college aged version of Harry Potter, I had very little interest in either Grossman's novel or the forthcoming TV series. And then they went and got Mike Cahill to direct the pilot. Yes, that Mike Cahill. The same Mike Cahill that directed ... [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 12.03.14] drama vampires

It was to be expected that a "vampire" movie from Spike Lee would not look or feel like your average vampire movie offering and low and behold, the first trailer for Da Sweet Blood of Jesus suggests just as much. [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.03.14] post apocalyptic

THE ROVER, starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson (of TWILIGHT fame), is an Australian dystopian film set 10 years after a global economic collapse. The collapse has eliminated government services, reduced the population to barely subsistent poverty, and virtually destroyed law and order. The only visible signs of a functioning government are small military units th... [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.03.14] scifi action thriller

Vice is a new scifi actioner starring Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane and Ambyr Childers. It's sort of The Purge, but in a Las Vegas resort where anything goes and there are no laws. How is this possible? Well, let's just say it's full of robots. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.03.14] post apocalyptic scifi action thriller adventure

While the official trailer for TERMINATOR: GENISYS hits tomorrow, we thought we'd share this sneak peek at the film which offers the first official footage from the 2015 film. You'll see some familiar Terminator tropes including what looks to be a T-1000, arching electricity and that unforgettable robot arm. [Continue reading (2 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.02.14] post apocalyptic horror action thriller

Tom Hammock’s post-apocalyptic thriller The Well had a fairly successful festival run, but since Marina didn't love it at VIFF, it makes me think it'll likely be a bit old hat for die-hard PA fans. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.02.14] post apocalyptic scifi horror action adventure

Like everything we've seen or read about Terminator: Genisys, this motion poster is fairly uninteresting. The only thing you may find interesting about the crumbling exoskeleton is the score behind it which sounds like a rock n' roll re-imagining of Brad Fiedel's original, more industrial score. [Continue reading (2 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.02.14]

One of my favourite film magazines is Little White Lies from the UK (that's right, I still read magazines!). They are comprehensive and erudite and cover an eclectic mix of genres without posturing. They value high aesthetics and unflinching opinion. They are an outlet I highly recommend. [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.02.14] scifi thriller

Anna Foerster, a director on the recent Outlander series and director of photography on big flicks like Roland Emmerich's White House Down and Anonymous, has signed on to direct a sequel to Duncan Jones' science fiction thriller Source Code. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 12.02.14] drama

It should come as no surprise for anyone familiar with Ray Robinson's novel "Electricity" that a film adaptation would likely not be a straight forward affair and from the look of director Bryn Higgins and screen writer Joe Fisher's take, Electricity is far from conventional. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.01.14] horror

Listen up, horror fans! Now that Marcus Nispel got his version of R-rated fantasy out of his system (read: Conan the Barbarian and Pathfinder), he's heading back to the horror genre with Backmask, a rock n' roll themed gore fest that hinges on the hoary old yarn about playing records backwards to reveal hidden messages. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.01.14] scifi action thriller adventure

Australian director Michael Shanks is a pro. He writes, directs, handles VFX and acts in his own films. He also has the most fun on the internet. Need proof? Just check out his latest film Time Trap which debuted in ful online now that its festival stint is over and done with. [Continue reading]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 12.01.14] scifi action thriller adventure

I'm obsessed with big and moody Russian blockbusters and Calculator, starring Vinnie Jones (The Condemned), seems like the next one to watch out for. [Continue reading (2 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 11.28.14] scifi action thriller adventure

May the force be with us all! Disney and Lucasfilm have debuted the first trailer for the highly anticipated next chapter in the Star Wars saga. This marks the first official footage ever from J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. [Continue reading (8 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 11.27.14] cyberpunk scifi

Harrison Ford has officially signed on to reprise the role of Rick Deckard in the upcoming Blade Runner sequel with filming set to begin sometime next year without Ridley Scott in the director's chair. He will instead set his sights to adapting Martin Weir's "The Martian" with Matt Damon in the lead. [Continue reading (6 comments)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 11.27.14] book horror

Titan Books has partnered with Quiet Earth to offer a copy of Christopher Golden's new Alien novel, River of Pain, which is the last book in a trilogy taking place prior to the events of Aliens revealing the secrets behind the colonization of LV-426. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

projectcyclops [Celluloid 11.27.14] scifi comedy

Director Alex Cox returns to the sci-fi genre with his new feature Bill, The Galactic Hero which premieres at the International Film Series in Boulder, Colorado on December 12th. Shot in black and white and with the participation of students from C.U., the film is based on the 1965 novel by Harry Harrison and was funded from a $100,000 Kickstarter campaign. From the l... [Continue reading (3 comments)]

Christopher Webster [DVD News 11.25.14] post apocalyptic scifi action thriller adventure

Amazon has listed pre-orders for two Blu-ray sets for the classic post-apocalyptic science fiction series, Battlestar Galactica. [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 11.25.14] post apocalyptic apocalyptic book scifi horror

Did anyone notice a copy of Stephen King's "The Stand" sitting on Matthew McConaughey's bookshelf in Interstellar? Was is a sign that the actor would star in the long gestating post-apocalyptic project? [Continue reading (1 comment)]

Christopher Webster [Celluloid 11.25.14] scifi action thriller adventure

The first trailer for Jurassic World, the fourth film in the mega-grossing dinosaur franchise based on Michael Chriton's novel, has stomped its way online. In the film, the dinosaur theme park dreamed up by John Hammond is open to the public... and it's feeding time! [Continue reading (2 comments)]

Stephanie O [Celluloid 11.25.14] comedy crime

Hugo Weaving skyrocketed into Hollywood fame as Agent Smith in The Matrix films and over the last two decades, the actor has curated a fine balance of Hollywood films and smaller indie productions, both in the US and in his native Australia. The Mule is one of his most recent forays into indie films. [Continue reading]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 11.21.14] scifi

The big screen adaption of Daniel H. Wilson's "Robopocalypse" (by none other than Steven Speilberg) may well be on hold but that doesn't mean that Wilson is done in Hollywood. Far from it. [Continue reading (2 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Celluloid 11.20.14] post apocalyptic scifi horror thriller fantasy adventure

Keeping up with news about the movie adaptation of Stephen King's "The Stand" is a full time job. Seems like a thousand directors have been attached and an equally ridiculous number of stars but it seems that when director Josh Boone signed onto the project, things got real. [Continue reading (3 comments)]

Marina Antunes [Cathode Ray Mission 11.20.14] scifi thriller

The "Global Frequency" TV series is a project that refuses to die. Based on the Warren Ellis comic of the same name, the show first came to light nearly 10 years ago on the CW with Michelle Forbes and Josh Hopkins in starring roles and though a pilot was shot and shown around to a handful of folks, the show was scrapped leaving fans who hadn't even seen it shaking the... [Continue reading (2 comments)]