Romance is a popular staple of all sorts of fiction as a main plot or a subplot. The science-fiction genre is no expectation, and the adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s sci-fi romance The Host has just hit theaters. So we’re looking at some of the best romances in sci-fi movies to see where this one went wrong.
Along with reviews for The Croods, Olympus Has Fallen and Welcome to the Punch, we also talk therVeronica Mars Kickstarter campaign and what that could mean for getting smaller films off the ground and the growing trend of indie directors joining big blockbuster projects.
The British film industry can be a very strange beast, as it acts as half-way house between Hollywood and Europe and where movies are seen to have the potential to break into the American market. This is certainly the hope for the British action-thriller Welcome to the Punch, which looks impressive, but is filled with many clichés and plot holes.
Catering to completely opposite audiences, DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods and the Gerard Butler action-thriller Olympus Has Fallen both posted noteworthy starts this weekend while the Tiny Fey-Paul Rudd dramedy Admission was mostly rejected.
In a big week of DVD and Blu-ray releases, we see the return of Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis, as well as a major costume drama from Denmark. Meanwhile, two major movie franchises battle it out for the Recommendation of the Week prize.
The oddly hilarious new thriller Olympus Has Fallen has and will continue to earn comparisons to Die Hard. Such comparisons are understandable, but they do the action classic a disservice.
Admission spews multiple plots and resolves them without ever finding a clever or insightful way to bring them all together to say something about its lead character. A little bit of this and a little bit of that can go a long way, but this jambalaya tastes rather bland.
