Mars Attacks! Director: Tim Burton Producer: Tim Burton, Larry J. Franco, Laurie Parker Writer: Woody Gelman, Bob Powell, Norman Saunders Cast: Jack Nicholson President James Dale, Art Land Glenn Close First Lady Marsha Dale Annette Bening Barbara Land Pierce Brosnan Professor Donald Kessler and “Bob” Dobbs Danny DeVito Rude Gambler Martin Short Press Secretary Jerry …
John Carter Directed by Andrew Stanton Produced by Jim Morris, Colin Wilson & Lindsey Collins Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews & Michael Chabon Based on A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy & Willem Dafoe Music by Michael …
Later Stephen King, 2012, Hard Case Crime, 256pp. Stephen King has gone back to his roots and written what he might call “a good old-fashioned horrorstory.” More to the point, it’s a ghost story. Specifically, a kid who can see ghosts. This is the type of story where King made his bones (so to speak), …
I Care A Lot Directed by J Blakeson Produced by Teddy Schwarzman, Ben Stillman, Michael Heimler, & J Blakeson Written by J Blakeson Cast Rosamund Pike as Marla Grayson Peter Dinklage as Roman Lunyov Eiza González as Fran Dianne Wiest as Jennifer Peterson Chris Messina as Dean Ericson Isiah Whitlock Jr. as Judge Lomax Macon …
2001: A Space Odyssey Directed and Produced by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and a little red dot Cinematography Geoffrey Unsworth Edited by Ray Lovejoy Production company Stanley Kubrick Productions Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Yes, I did see 2001 on the big screen when it first …
Nomadland Directed by Chloé Zhao Produced by Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Chloé Zhao Screenplay by Chloé Zhao Based on Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder Starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Swankie Music by Ludovico Einaudi The tone of Nomadland is that of a documentary. Indeed, …
Quark Science Directors Nic Stacey, Here Thompson, Quentin Lazzarotto Network MagellanTV; Magellan TV Format Prime Video (streaming online video) It doesn’t have anything to do with James Joyce, even though he invented the term “quark.” Or Carl Sagan, who invented the term “science.” Quark Science is an incredibly good collection of science documentaries, now available …
Space Sweepers Directed by Jo Sung-hee Produced by Yoon In-beom, Kim Soo-jin Written by Yoon Seung-min, Yoo-kang Seo-ae, Jo Sung-hee Starring Song Joong-ki Kim Tae-ri Jin Seon-kyu Yoo Hae-jin Music by Kim Tae-seong Song Joong-ki as Tae-ho – Former Commander of the Space Guards and the first ever UTS Genius. Kim Tae-ri as Captain Jang …
Based on The Stand by Stephen King Developed by Josh Boone & Benjamin Cavell Executive producers Benjamin Cavell, Taylor Elmore, Josh Boone, Will Weiske, Jimmy Miller, Roy Lee, Richard P. Rubinstein Producers Stephen Welke, Jill Killington, Knate Lee, Owen King Production locations British Columbia, Canada James Marsden as Stu Redman Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith …
A Monster Calls Directed by J. A. Bayona Produced by Belén Atienza, Mitch Horwits, Jonathan King Screenplay by Patrick Ness Based on A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness from an idea by Siobhan Dowd Starring Lewis MacDougall as Conor O’Malley Max Golds as 5-year-old Conor Liam Neeson as the “Monster” (voice and motion capture), a …