Latest releases in town: Super 8
There are three movies opening this week at Cineplex’s two outlets, Garden City and Oasis Mall.
Stars: Joel Courtney, Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning and Riley Griffiths
Director: JJ Abrams
Genre: Sci-Fi
Run Time: 122mins
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
Showing at: Cineplex Cinema
There are three movies opening this week at Cineplex’s two outlets, Garden City and Oasis Mall.
There is the romantic comedy Crazy Stupid Love, for all the ladies who got bored with the ‘too serious’ blockbusters like Harry Potter and X-Men: First Class, still pulling in the crowds all over the world.
There is Winnie the Pooh, targeted at kids and the adults that remember reading this comic strip very many years ago. Then there is Super 8, by far the greatest of filmmakers in Steven Spielberg.
I’ll admit right off, I’m a sucker for Spielberg. From the first of his films I watched, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to Jaws, to the Indiana Jones movies, to the original Twilight Zone: The Movie, to Jurassic Park and Saving Private Ryan – I’ve watched everything that this genius has made.
He is not the director here, he is the producer, but his influence is all over it, and the director, J.J. Abrams, worked with Spielberg on many of the early films.
But that’s not the only reason you should go watch Super 8, as an unassuming title as I’ve ever come across.
This is a movie that goes back to a time when storytelling was actually the main reason a movie was made, and who tells a story better than Steven Spielberg?
The movie, set in the 1970s, tells the story of Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a young boy whose mother has just been killed in a tragic factory accident, and whose grieving father (Kyle Chandler) serves as the town’s deputy.
Joe, who has a crush on the pretty and alluring Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning), is helping his intense friend Charles (Riley Griffiths) make a secret 8mm zombie movie for a local film festival.
Besotted by stories of other young directors (no doubt including Spielberg), they scout locations, improvise costumes and energetically apply zombie makeup.
A great opportunity develops when a train comes rumbling out of the night, and Joe and Alice try to perform their dialogue as the train rumbles past.
Then a pickup truck appears, racing on the tracks toward the train. The train wreck goes on and on and on, tossing railroad cars all over the place.
Soon the kids suspect that it was more than just another accident, what with the military everywhere involved in what is obviously a cover-up.
Shortly after that unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Director: JJ Abrams
Genre: Sci-Fi
Run Time: 122mins
Preview by: Kalungi Kabuye
Showing at: Cineplex Cinema
There are three movies opening this week at Cineplex’s two outlets, Garden City and Oasis Mall.
There is the romantic comedy Crazy Stupid Love, for all the ladies who got bored with the ‘too serious’ blockbusters like Harry Potter and X-Men: First Class, still pulling in the crowds all over the world.
There is Winnie the Pooh, targeted at kids and the adults that remember reading this comic strip very many years ago. Then there is Super 8, by far the greatest of filmmakers in Steven Spielberg.
I’ll admit right off, I’m a sucker for Spielberg. From the first of his films I watched, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to Jaws, to the Indiana Jones movies, to the original Twilight Zone: The Movie, to Jurassic Park and Saving Private Ryan – I’ve watched everything that this genius has made.
He is not the director here, he is the producer, but his influence is all over it, and the director, J.J. Abrams, worked with Spielberg on many of the early films.
But that’s not the only reason you should go watch Super 8, as an unassuming title as I’ve ever come across.
This is a movie that goes back to a time when storytelling was actually the main reason a movie was made, and who tells a story better than Steven Spielberg?
The movie, set in the 1970s, tells the story of Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a young boy whose mother has just been killed in a tragic factory accident, and whose grieving father (Kyle Chandler) serves as the town’s deputy.
Joe, who has a crush on the pretty and alluring Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning), is helping his intense friend Charles (Riley Griffiths) make a secret 8mm zombie movie for a local film festival.
Besotted by stories of other young directors (no doubt including Spielberg), they scout locations, improvise costumes and energetically apply zombie makeup.
A great opportunity develops when a train comes rumbling out of the night, and Joe and Alice try to perform their dialogue as the train rumbles past.
Then a pickup truck appears, racing on the tracks toward the train. The train wreck goes on and on and on, tossing railroad cars all over the place.
Soon the kids suspect that it was more than just another accident, what with the military everywhere involved in what is obviously a cover-up.
Shortly after that unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.