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Duration 2h 30m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story A continuing tale about the characters, who have also appeared in other Marvel films since the last GOTG outing. Director James Gunn Writers/Script James Gunn Starring Chukwudi Iwuji, Bradley Cooper, Pm Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel, Chris Pratt, Will Poulter, … Continue reading
Duration 1h 43m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story An original screenplay Director Yimou Zhang Writers/Script Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro, Tony Gilroy Starring Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, and a load of Chinese actors, probably well known in their own country. Ratings IMDb: 5.9/10 by 139,00 … Continue reading
Duration 3h 12m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story The first Avatar, plus further characters. Director James Cameraon Writers/Script James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Giovani Rebisi, Sigourney Weaver, Ratings IMDb: 8.1/10 by 77,369 people. Rotten … Continue reading
Duration 2h 10m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story An original screenplay Director Jordan Peele Writers/Script Jordan Peele Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, Steven Yeun, Terry Notary, Ratings IMDb: 7.4/10 by 41,919 people. Rotten Tomatoes: 82% by 373 reviewers. Review2view: 6.5/10. Elevator Pitch: Otis Heyward, his son OJ and … Continue reading
Duration 1h 49m Ratings UK: 18, USA: R, Denmark: 15 Source of story The previous “Alien” outings, particularly the creatures and Ripley Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Writers/Script Joss Whedon Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winnona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Michael Wincott, Dan Hedaya, Raymond Cruz Ratings IMDb: 6.2/10 by 242,352 people. Rotten Tomatoes: 54% by 81 reviewer. Review2view: 7.5/10. Elevator … Continue reading
Duration 1h 54m Ratings UK: 12A, USA: PG-13, Denmark: 11 Source of story Used the theme of the other three MIB films eith new main characters.Themselves based on a Maibu comic by Lowell Cunningham Director F. Gary Gray Writers/Script Matt Holloway, Art Marcum Starring Chris Helmsworth, Tessa Thompson, Rebecca Ferguson, Rafe Spall, Emman Thompson, Liam … Continue reading
Duration 1h 38m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Spain: 12 Source of story A short story, The Animators, by Sydney J. Bounds Director Ruairi Robinson Writers/Script Clive Dawson Starring Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams, Ratings IMDb: 5.5/10 by 36k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 18% by 62 reviewers. Review2view: 3/10. Elevator Pitch: In the future an … Continue reading
Duration 1h 39m Ratings UK: 15, USA: Not Rared, Spain: 16 Source of story An original Screenplay Director Shane Abbess, Writers/Script Shane Abbess, Brian Cachia, Starring Kellan Lutz, Isabel Lucas, Rachel Griffiths, Daniel MacPherson, Temuera Morrison Ratings IMDb: 5.6 by 8.1k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 63% by 19 reviewers. Elevator Pitch: In the far future a military … Continue reading
Duration 1h 45m Ratings UK: PG, USA: PG, Peru: Apt Source of story This film follows directly from “The Wrath of Khan” Director Leonard Nimoy Writers/Script Gene Roddenberry, Harve Bennett Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelly, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Christopher Lloyd, James B. Sikking, Ratings IMDb: 6.7 by 10700 … Continue reading
Duration 1h 38m Ratings UK: PG, USA: PG, Spain: 7 Source of story A novel in 1968 by Alexander Key, followed by four or five films incorporating the words “Witch Mountain” having the theme of a couple of alien children in trouble. Director Andy Fickman Writers/Script Matt Lopez, Mark Bomback Starring Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, … Continue reading
Duration 1h 34m Ratings UK: 15, USA: R, Saudi Arabia : R12, France :12 Source of story The concept based on the previous film, and the monsters on all the previous films. Director The Brothers Strause Writers/Script Shane Salerno (Aliens Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett) (predator Jim Thomas, John Thomas) Starring Tom Woodruff Jr., Ian Whyte, … Continue reading
Duration 2h 29m Rating 15 UK Source of story Apparently derived from a collection of Arthur C. Clarke stories starting with “The Sentinel”. Director Stanley Kubrick Writers/Script Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke Starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tysack, Robert Beatty Elevator Pitch: In a future 2001 travel within the solar … Continue reading
Duration 1h 37m Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Director Scott Stewart Writers/Script Scott Stewart Starring Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, J.K. Simmons Elevator Pitch: A husband and wife with two young sons face some fimancial difficulties as the husband tries to find work, but soon their problems become unimportant as strange things … Continue reading
Duration 1h 51m Rating (UK) 15 Source of story Roughly based on the previous films Director Brad Turner Writers/Script Ben Ripley (Dennis Feldman characters) Starring Robin Dunne, Robert Knepper, Amelia Cooke, Natasha Henstridge Elevator Pitch: While Eve (you need to have seen the previous film) and her offspring are being transported in a ambulance she … Continue reading
Duration 1h 48m Rating (UK) 18 Source of story A more or less original screenplay Director Roger Donaldson Writers/Script Dennis Feldman Starring Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge, Michelle Williams, Elevator Pitch: A scientist gets a group of specialists together whose job will be to track down and kill … Continue reading
Duration 1h 29m Rating (UK) 18 Source of story Loosely based on the first film of the franchise Director Peter Medak Writers/Script Chris Brancato (characters by Dennis Feldman) Starring Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, James Cromwell, Nancy La Scala, Raquel Gardner Elevator Pitch: A Mars mission results in the crew of three being infected … Continue reading
Duration 2h 6m Rating (UK) PG Source of story An original screenplay developed by Luc Besson over 20 years. Director Luc Besson Writers/Script Luc Besson, Mark Kamen Starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Homn, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, Brion James, Lee Evans, Elevator Pitch: The world is protected from an intergalactic evil, which … Continue reading
Duration 1h 41m Rating (UK) PG Source of story An original screenplay Director Ivan Reitman Writers/Script David Diamond, David Weissman, Don Jakoby Starring David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Ted Levine, Dan Aykroyd, Sarah Silverman, John Cho, Elevator Pitch: A meteor strike close to an American desert town results in an extraordinay … Continue reading
Duration 1h 44m Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay, but said by many to have its origins in Alien. Director Daniel Espinosa Writers/Script Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Starring Hiroyuki Sanada, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ariyon Bakare Elevator Pitch: After soil samples from Mars have been recovered from a probe at … Continue reading
Elevator Pitch Is it possible to produce an elevator pitch for this movie? Well I’ll try. During the Separatist wars Jedi knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker rescue the Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg General Grievous, but the chancellor is not what he seems and is able to set in motion the destruction of the … Continue reading
Elevator Pitch Roy is the father of Alton a boy who appears to have special powers, and he and a friend, Lucas, have spirited him away from an American cult where the boy had been abandoned by his mother. Their action is broadcast as an abduction, requiring them to keep out of sight as they … Continue reading
Elevator Pitch In a future 1997 the detectives of the LAPD are engaged in firefights with the street gangs of the city, but when one gang retires to their fortress and does not come out again the detectives enter the building and find bodies and blood. What has happened? Another gang is attacked in their … Continue reading
Elevator Pitch A bunch of ex-special forces mercenaries are hired to go into the Central American jungle, together with a CIA spook in order to rescue a couple of hostages from some bandits. As they make their way through the jungle they become aware that everything is not quite as it should be and their … Continue reading
Elevator Pitch In the far future, after earth has long been abandoned and the inhabitants moved to Nova Prime, the humans have faced and beaten creatures called “ursa” who sense their prey due to fear. A Ranger general, known for his success in defeating the ursa is on a trip with his son in a … Continue reading
Elevator Pitch. The alien Boris the Animal escapes from confinement on the moon where Agent K put him forty years ago and travels back in time to change events. When Agent J finds that his partner is not who he thought he was, and there is no sign of K, he realises what has … Continue reading
Duration 1h 30m Rating (UK) 15 Source of story An original screenplay Writers/Script Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski (Story by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck) Additional Info I was amused by the fact that critic Mark Kermode said on the radio that he had sent a tweet to the cast and to Michael Bay congratulating … Continue reading
Duration 1h 43m Rating (UK) 15 Source of story Originally a short story “Who Goes There” by John W Campbell Jr published in 1938 and the 1982 film of the same name. This is in fact a prequel to the earlier film Writers/Script Eric Heisserer Additional Info The 1982 film shows the ruins of a … Continue reading
Duration 2h 1m Rating (UK) 12A Source of story A Marvel Comics series Writer/s Script James Gunn, Nicole Perlman Writer/s Story Many people with characters attributions: Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Bill Mantio, Keith Giffen, Jim Starlin, Steve Englehart, Steve Gan, Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik, Gene Colan, Arnold Drake, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and seven others. … Continue reading
Duration 2h 17m Rating (UK) 12A Source of story A comic book (graphic novel?) series “Valarian and Laureline” by Pierre Christin and Jean Claude Mézières Writer/s Script Luc Besson Director Luc Besson Starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Sam Spruell Elevator Pitch In the distant future the city of the title … Continue reading
Duration 1h 49m Rating (UK) 18 Source of story A not very original screenplay Writer/s Script Rand Ravich Director Rand Ravich Starring Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea DuVall, Nick Cassavetes, Samantha Eggar, Tom Noonan Elevator Pitch When two astronauts on a space walk are briefly out of touch with Houston, there is alarm … Continue reading
Duration 2h 7m Rating (UK) 12A Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s Script The Wachowskis Director The Wachowskis Starring Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Tim Pigott-Smith, Terry Gilliam, Julie Graham Elevator Pitch A young woman who cleans toilets for a living becomes the object of … Continue reading
Released 2017 Rating (UK) 15 Source of story Directly following Alien 5: Promethius Writer/s Script John Logan, Dante Harper Writer/s Story Jack Paglen, Michael Green. Characters: Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett Director Ridley Scott Starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Elevator Pitch The Covenant, a spaceship, carrying 2000 colonists and 15 crew all … Continue reading
Released 2009 Rating (UK) 12A Source of story An original screenplay Writer/s script James Cameron Director James Cameron Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore Elevator Pitch Pandora is a moon orbiting a gaseous planet inhabited by a three metre high blue people, the Na’vi, and … Continue reading
Released 2014 Rating 15 in UK, R in USA Director Jonathan Glazer Writer/s Walter Campbell, Jonathan Glazer Starring Scarlett Johansson Source of story A book by Michael Faber Elevator Pitch An alien in the form of an attractive woman drives around Glasgow in a white van, picking up stray men and taking them to her … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating 12A Director Andrew Stanton Writer/s Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton Source of story “Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912) Elevator Pitch An American Civil War veteran is mysteriously transferred to the planet Mars where he finds he had super capabilities and beomes … Continue reading
Released 2013 Rating 12A in UK Director Andrew Niccol Writer/s Andrew Niccol Starring Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons, William Hurt Source of story A book by Stephenie Meyer Elevator Pitch A race of parasitic aliens have taken over the world by invading the bodies of humans, and only small pockets of uninvaded people remain. … Continue reading
Released 2012 Rating 12A Director Peter Berg Writer/s Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber Starring Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, Source of story Amazingly – the Hasbro game of the same name Elevator Pitch Alien invaders in five space craft attack earth when their planet is contacted by Hawaian scientists. Their sophisticated sea craft battle … Continue reading
Released 2011 Rating 15 in UK Director Greg Mottola Writer/s Simon Pegg, Nick Frost Starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig Source of story An original screenplay Elevator Pitch A couple of geeks are on a trip round the “alien sites” in America in an RV after going to Comicon, when they come … Continue reading
Released 1997 Rating 15 in UK Director Paul Verhoeven Writer/s Ed Neumeier Starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busy, Dean Norris, Amy Smart Source of story A Robert A Heinline book Elevator Pitch When a race of alien insects attack South America, earth sends a vast fleet of space craft to attack … Continue reading
Released 1986 Rating 18 in UK Director James Cameron Writer/s James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen Source of story A follow up to “Alien” from 1979 Elevator Pitch The planet on which the alien eggs were found has been colonised, but contact with it has been lost. A … Continue reading
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