Showing posts with label Ryan Robbins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ryan Robbins. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 March 2022

Apollo 18 (2011)


 

Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon. 

OK sci-fi horror with a rather standard plot, but made more interesting with its "found-footage" approach; unfortunately, the existence of the "aliens" is not much explained.

Maltin**: "Plodding sci-fi thriller attempts to inject fresh life into familiar scenario...by mimicking the "found footage" semidocumentary approach...Viewers old enough to have watched original Apollo space flights on black-and-white TV may be mildly amused by moments of visual verisimilitude. Overall, though, entire production comes off  as little more than a modestly clever stunt." 



Thursday, 3 March 2016

Reasonable Doubt (2014)



A District Attorney has his life turned upside down when he's involved in a hit and run and another man is arrested for his crime and charged with murder.

Fairly suspenseful thriller with an unconvincing plot and some unpleasant characters; once again, Samuel L. Jackson is worth the watch.

Maltin**: "Strictly by-the-numbers thriller is poorly scripted and filled with surprises that aren't very surprising."