Watch The Opening Scene Of SyFy's ALIENS ON THE MOON

Watch The Opening Scene Of SyFy's ALIENS ON THE MOON


Watch The Opening Scene Of SyFy's ALIENS ON THE MOON

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Sunday, July 20 marks the 45th anniversary of humans landing on the Moon. NASA has all sorts of cool events planned, like replaying restored footage of Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk right at the very moment he did it in 1969 (10:39 EDT if you must know). At the same time, SyFy will be into the second hour of a two-hour documentary special, Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed. The special will look at evidence that suggests that the Moon was, or is, being used as a base or staging area for an alien race. We have the opening scene to share with you, and it is the exact amount of crazy you will have come to expect from the guy who produced Alien Autopsy. Moon conspiracy...

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Review: THE PURGE: ANARCHY, Incoherent Screams Against The System

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 07:01 PM PDT

Taking place one year after the events in 2013's The Purge but featuring a new cast of characters, The Purge: Anarchy declines to flesh out its vague premise, once again focusing its energies on a basic instinct: fight or flight. Whereas the first film contained its action to a single, if spacious, suburban home, the sequel forces its protagonists onto the mean streets of Downtown, Anywhere, U.S.A. Actually, it looks to have been filmed in Los Angeles, but the specific geography matters less than the dark urban setting, which allows for many people of color to display their patriotic spirit by killing each other. A few new specifics emerge, beginning with the idea that in 2014, the New Founding Fathers of America are elected to...

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London Indian 2014 Review: HANK & ASHA, A Romance Interrupted

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 03:00 PM PDT

I didn't join the Twitch team to write about romantic comedies. I'm more of a genre film guy with a particular slant toward Indian flavored cinema. However, I've seen James Duff's Hank & Asha appear on the rosters of enough Indian film festivals around the world that I figured I'd give it a shot when the London Indian Film Festival gave it a seal of approval as well. I'm still not quite sure where I stand on it, but it has stayed with me for several days, so that's probably in its favor.Hank is a filmmaker in New York. When his documentary plays at a film festival in Prague, a student from India sees it and wants to ask him a few questions, though she sadly...

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ANNABELLE: The Doll From THE CONJURING Breaks Out In First Trailer

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Stuck in the basement under lock and key for much of 2013's The Conjuring, the demonic doll known as Annabelle breaks out in her own spin-off movie later this year. And now the first official trailer has been unleashed. As Eric D. Snider explained in his review of The Conjuring, directed by James Wan: "Very few of the details, either in plot or atmosphere, will shock anyone who's seen a horror movie set in a menacing house before. The filmmakers throw everything at the screen: ghosts, demons, possession, scary dolls, eerie music boxes, stopped clocks, dark basements, secret rooms, creepy kids, weird animal behavior, and so on.But guess what? It works. No one will accuse The Conjuring of being overly original, but it doesn't feel derivative, either,...

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Review: SEX TAPE, A Comedy Strained To The Breaking Point

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel look good naked. This is an important plot point in Sex Tape, so please pay attention to their naked bodies, especially when they are having sex or trying to have sex. When they meet in college, Annie (Diaz) and Jay (Segel) cannot keep their genitals away from each other, seizing every available opportunity to have sex in every conceivable position in every imaginable location. Soon, however, marriage and children get in the way of the sexing, and they becme vaguely unhappy, aware that they are not having the sex, kinda wishing that they could once again have the sex like little sex-mad bunny rabbits, and then, of course, they would be happy, because everything else in their lives is, apparently,...

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Review: Cathy Garcia-Molina's SHE'S DATING THE GANGSTER Is More Than Just Your Average Filipino Rom-Com

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 11:02 AM PDT

The early 90's was for Philippine cinema a period for transition from the hard-hitting dramas and actioners to the sugary and light romances that are still popular up to today. Carlos Siguion-Reyna's Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (I Will Wait For You in Heaven, 1991), the quintessential Filipino film adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights starring Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta as lovers doomed by both man and fate's cruelty, represented what could probably be the last hurrah for mature romantic tearjerkers, paving the way for stories of teenagers and their first romances. Cathy Garcia-Molina's adaptation of Bianca Bernardino's She's Dating the Gangster, the Nicholas Spark-esque novelette about another lovesick girl falling for the coolest guy in the campus, could have gone the way all the...

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Review: PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE Rescues Spin-Off Franchise

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Having not seen last summer's Disney's Planes ("From the world of Pixar's Cars!"), I went into its fast-tracked, pre-ordained, computer animated sequel with two questions: 1. What happened in the first movie? And 2., How can that possibly matter? After seeing Planes: Fire & Rescue, the questions remain, albeit sans my original sarcasm. Not only did I take on the task of reviewing Fire & Rescue ignorant of the first Planes, but I didn't particularly care about that. Having heard that Planes is trite and uninspired at best, and an obnoxious airborne redux of Cars 2 (of all things!) at worst -- a reviewer friend of mine panned it as a "junk food movie" -- I figured perhaps it's best to let the sequel stand on...

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Review: MOOD INDIGO (European Version) Exhilarates And Exhausts In Equal Measure

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Michel Gondry is back. And he's going no holds barred. After slumming it as studio hired-gun and inner-city auteur (in 2011's The Green Hornet and 2012's The We and the I, respectively), the French director is back in small-batch surrealist mode with Mood Indigo (L'ecume des jours). The cult of Gondry can breathe a sigh of relief: with all its artisanal whimsy and handcrafted pizazz, this isn't just the movie you've been waiting for -- it's three of them. Now, if only Gondry had managed to make them add up to anything meaningful or affecting. I could offer some token plot summary here, but believe me when I say that it really, really doesn't matter. Adapting the 1947 Boris Vian novel L'ecume des jours, a...

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Japan Cuts 2014 Review: 0.5MM, A Darkly Comedic Probe Of Japan's Historical And Social Psyche

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

The remarkable Japanese director Ando Momoko expands her cinematic canvas considerably with her second feature, 0.5mm, a major highlight of this year's Japan Cuts festival. It's a deceptively small film that tackles big subjects, an intimate film with an epic three hour and 18 minute length. Ando probes Japan's historical, social and emotional psyche with clinical precision, doing it through a decidedly odd protagonist, brilliantly portrayed by Ando Sakura, the director's sister. 0.5mm, adapted from the director's own novel, is a road movie of sorts, traversing its landscape in ways that are never less than deeply compelling, and offering many moments that prove to be one profound epiphany after another. It's a quiet stunner that subtly insinuates itself into your consciousness and refuses to leave you,...

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NYAFF 2014 Interview: Director Umin Boya Talks KANO And Racial Harmony Through Baseball

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Baseball has been used many times in cinema to tell tales of triumph and tragedy.  The New York Asian Film Festival brings us Kano, the true story of how the sport brought together three very separate racial groups in 1930s Japanese-occupied Taiwan. Here's our chat with the director, Umin Boya.The Lady Miz Diva:  Many people coming to the festival will know you from SEEDIQ BALE, and that you had acted for a long time.  What made now the right time for you to director your first feature? Umin Boya:  Actually, I have been a director for about seven or eight years now, but I usually work in TV movies.  This is my first feature film.  It's because of Wei Te-Sheng, the director of Seediq Bale. ...

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