Friday, July 21, 2023

20th Anniversary of 2003 Films

20th Anniversary of 2003 Films

*OSCAR WINNERS

*NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE

I saw all of these that year

21 Grams

Bad Santa

Catch Me if You Can

City of God

Cold Mountain – (Best Supporting Renée Zellweger)

Dirty Pretty Things

Elf

Finding Nemo

House of Sand and Fog

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

In America

Kill Bill: Volume 1

Lost in Translation

Love Actually

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Matchstick Men

Monster – (Best Actress Charlize Theron)

Mystic River (Best Actor Sean Penn - Best Supporting Tim Robbins)

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Open Range

Phone Booth

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pear

S.W.A.T.

Seabiscuit

Something's Gotta Give

Tears of the Sun

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

The Cooler

The Dancer Upstairs

The Fog of War (Documentary)

The Girl with the Pearl Earing

The Human Stain

The Italian Job

The Last Samurai

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Best Picture – Best Director Peter Jackson)

The Matrix Reloaded

The Room

The Station Agent

Winged Migration

Whale Rider


Sunday, July 2, 2023

Sci-Fi Films Coming Soon 2023 - 2024

                      

 Sci-Fi Films Coming Soon

2023 -2024 

Definitely Want To See 

A Quiet Place III - John Krasinski an integral part of the A Quiet Place film franchise will not direct A Quiet Place Part III.

Alien: Romulus - is an upcoming science fiction horror film directed by Fede Álvarez and co-written by Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues, serving as a "standalone" installment, the seventh mainline installment and ninth film overall in the Alien franchise. It stars Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu.

Avatar 3 -  Starring Sam Worthington · Zoe Saldaña · Sigourney Weaver · Stephen Lang · Giovanni Ribisi · Kate Winslet · David Thewlis · Oona Chaplin. More Water from Director Cameron with his unique touch for imaginative special effects.

Beetlejuice 2 – Director Tim Burton reprises the successful 1988 film starring Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton, Wilem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Winona Ryder. This is a follow-up to the comedy about a ghost named Beetlejuice and a haunt a house.

Distant - An upcoming sci-fi comedy film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck that revolves around an asteroid miner. After crash-landing on a foreign planet, the miner must navigate the hostile landscape while running out of oxygen and dodging bizarre creatures in order to reach the other survivor.

Dune: Part Two – This is the second installment of Denis Villeneuve's two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune and serves as a direct sequel to the 2021 film. The movie will continue where Dune left off, following Paul Atreides' (Timothée Chalamet) ascent to power and subsequent uprising against Emperor Shaddam IV.

Gladiator 2 – Actor Pascal aka “The Mandalorian” - Denzel Washington – Connie Nielsen.  Directed by Ridley Scott. Serving as a sequel to Gladiator (2000). No Plot details.

Joker: Folie à Deux – Director Todd Philipps brings the sequel back to life with Oscar Winner Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker along with Zazie Beetz and Catherine Keener.Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes -

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - The New Apes movie is set many years after the conclusion of 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes. Many apes’ societies have grown from when the Moses-like Caesar brought his people to an oasis, while humans have been reduced to a feral-like existence. Some ape groups have never heard of Caesar, while others have contorted his teaching to build burgeoning empires. In this setting, one ape leader begins to enslave other groups to find human technology, while another ape, who watched his clan be taken, embarks on a journey to find freedom. A young human woman becomes key to the latter's quest, although she has plans of her own.

Mad Max: The Wasteland – (Part Prequel – Sequel to Mad Max: Fury Road) – Directed by George Miller – “The Wasteland" will probably end up chronicling the continuing adventures of Mad Max, A.K.A. Max Rockatansky, a former cop whose family was murdered by a gang and who sought revenge against those who committed that terrible crime. Cast Tom Hardy is back with Anya Taylor Joy as the new “Furiosa” along Chris Hemsworth”.

Spaceless - An assassin wakes up inside a spacesuit tumbling helplessly through space, with a computer designed to keep him company until his air runs out. He must try to solve the mystery of his death, which began when he broke into an orbiting space station to carry out a hit. Director Gore Verbinski – Won Academy Award for Best Animation in 2012 “Rango”.

The Electric State – An upcoming American science fiction adventure film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It is based on the narrative art book of the same name by Simon Stålenhag. Plot is about an orphaned teenager traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother. Millie Bobby Brown - Chris Pratt - Ke Huy Quan - Stanley Tucci - Jason Alexander - Brian Cox - Jenny Slate - Giancarlo Esposito - Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Is an upcoming dystopian action-adventure movie based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins which serves as both a sequel and prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy.

The Pod Generation - An upcoming sci-fi romantic comedy film directed by Sophie Barthes that will be set in the near future where AI is all the craze and nature is fading into obscurity. The protagonists of the story are the New Yorker couple, Rachel and Alvy, who are prepared to have a family using a new technology created by a tech giant Pegasus. Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke and Oscar-nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor are set to headline the film in the leading roles. The diverse cast also includes Kathryn Hunter, Vinette Robinson, Rosalie Craig, Jean-Marc Barr, Rita Bernard-Shaw, and Megan Maczko. The movie is scheduled to be released sometime in 2023.