The tag line for the new movie The Martian is: Help Is Only 140 Million Miles Away. Pretty scary, but very true for this scenario. It has an all star cast (as you can tell from the trailer), and it is a Riddly Scott movie. What’s not to love? Other than the fact that we have to wait until forever for it to come out, of course.
This week we finally get Jurassic World, the latest in the Jurassic franchise. I have liked these since the very first one, and I will definitely be in the theater for it, hopefully the IMAX 3D version. There are also a limited number of theaters which will be showing Debug, a film about 6 hackers who go up against the AI in a derelict space ship, which will be a show I will be passing on.
Another week without a genre film in the offing; I am going to catch up with my streaming series on Crunchyroll and Funimation this time around instead.
Not much this week, unless perhaps you count disaster flicks as sci-fi. If so, San Andreas might be worth checking out. Personally, I will be doing something else this weekend.
Studio Chizu has teamed up with Funimation to bring The Boy And The Beast to some US theaters in the fall, going into wide release at the end of the year in hopes of nailing down an Academy Award or three. I can’t link you to the Funimation site, because they only signed on last week; they haven’t had a chance to build the page yet, so the link goes to the original Japanese site. Mamoru Hosoda directed this, some of his previous works included Summer Wars, The Girl Who Lept Through Time, and Wolf Children, so you can expect something exceptional.
Last year the movie Monsterz was presented on the big screen by the Japan Society in New York. The film itself was made in Japan and released there in 2013, a remake of the 2010 Korean movie Haunters, telling the tale of two men with supernatural powers battling each other for control. This is another movie that has yet to be released in a domestic North American version, but I live in hope (and refuse to pay the price buying it as an import entails). The Korean original had been available here a few years back, but went out of print around 2013 or so.