Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn are in for the honeymoon of a lifetime when their trip to Hawaii turns deadly in director David Twohy's "A Perfect Getaway." Their holiday escape is anything but when they find out there are psychopaths stalking and murdering tourists on the Pacific islands.
Honestly, what were they expecting? Didn’t they know that tropical locations are a known hot-spot for homicidal maniacs? We’ve put together the honeymoon planner’s kit detailing locations avoid if you’re not a fan of taking an axe to the face. Read more...
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This weekend we get to find out exactly what happened in "Year One." Or at least what Hollywood thinks happened. As you know, they tend to fudge the historical facts for a better story and... wait. This a comedy? Not a serious Biblical epic? My bad.
In honor of "Year One," I've decided to dig up five movies that tell just what happened in the years after. If IMDB is to be trusted, "year movies" will be a trend in the next few years. There's Roland Emmerich's latest vision of the apocalypse, "2012," along with "1066" (the Norman Invasion of England), "1777" (A pretty big year for the American colonies) and "1906" (The San Fransisco Earthquake). Date titles aren't just the new hotness however. Just look at these, all of which came out long before 6/17/09... Read more...
Forget about your Wall-Es and your R2-D2s. As "Terminator Salvation" will prove to audiences this weekend, like so many sci-fi flicks before it, robots are simply not to be trusted. Their cold logic, susceptibility to tampering and tendency to regard human beings as "inferior" are all red flags. Real world concerns like the threat of nuclear annihilation and global warming are important of course, but killer robots will be the end of us all if we're not careful.
As I mentioned above, Skynet's 'Terminator' machines are just one example of the constant robot threat we all face. Prescient Hollywood creatives have been warning us for years, decades even, that our species will eventually be crushed beneath a cold, metal fist. Consider these examples… Read more...
