Neil Blomkamp, writer and director of 2009’s District 9, is back with a new disturbing look into a dystopian future with Elysium. Set in the year 2154, two classes of people exist: The very wealthy, who live in a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. The people
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! As the summer night gets longer and days get hotter we here at Movie Issues went back to school this week with the viewing of the 1987s movie Summer School. Where Mark Harmon stars as a high school gym teacher who is
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is based on the Rick Riordan novel of the same name and the sequel to the 2010 film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief. The new movie, directed by Thor Freudenthal, continues the adventures of Percy Jackson, the son of Greek God Poseidon, who embarks on a journey with his
From Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (2012’s Contraband) comes his new action comedy 2Guns. Based on the BOOM! Studios comic series of the same name, the movie stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as two under cover agents: one DEA, the other NCIS. While investigating one another believing each is stealing money from the mob, they find out they have
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week we decided to watch Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief to prepare for next week’s sequel. It’s a decent fun adventure flick where a kid finds out he’s a Greek demigod accused of stealing Zeus’s ultimate weapon. He then, with his group of friends, set off
This summer has been full of superheroes fighting evil and standing up for good, but out of all of them, The Wolverine stands alone. Unlike Superman, The Lone Ranger, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, Wolverine has been played by one actor only, Hugh Jackman, who at this point has Wolverine down to a perfect science.
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We here at Movie Issues have finally reached the end of Stallone Month. It’s sad, but all good things must come to an end, and to end it we watched the 1991 comedy Oscar. This time Stallone is a mob boss trying
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! As we enter our third week of watching Sylvester Stallone’s filmography, we wanted to watch one of his off the wall crazy action movies. I think Demolition Man totally fits that bill! This 1993 movie follows the story of a formerly-cyrogenically-frozen evil
The Conjuring is the dramatization of a little-known account from the 1970s case files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson). Director James Wan (Saw and Insidious) pulls out all the stops in this very sophisticated supernatural horror film. The movie is laced with all the right amount of creaky