I just checked out my screener copy of Josh Trank’s Chronicle, starring Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Michael Kelly.
In Chronicle, it’s the story of three kids who find something under the ground in a cave and it gives them amazing telekinetic powers.
As the movie progresses, we follow their journey of self discovery as they learn the extent of their powers, including how much fun they can have, or how much trouble they can get into.
It’s a pretty good tale of teens with too much of a good thing and I recommend catching it on DVD or Blu-ray. You can check out my original movie review.
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I was almost talked out of going to see Battleship by some of what the mainstream critics were tossing out there. I AM GLAD I DID NOT LISTEN!
Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, and a bunch others in a tale of aliens coming to Earth with ill-gotten intent on their lizard-like alien minds. But what they didn’t count on was encountering the U.S. Navy and Taylor Kitsch. Bad, bad call aliens. You should have read the script and turned around!
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Battleship starts out with some scientists reaching out to another Earth-like planet. What they get is a reply in the form of 5 ships coming to Earth to “visit.”
Kitsch plays an irresponsible/reckless Alex Hopper and his older brother, Naval Commander Stone Hopper is played by True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgård. Trying to set his younger brother straight, Stone enlists Alex in the Navy.
After establishing a few details of the story, we find ourselves watching the Navy rev up for the annual war games called RIMPAC. We find Alex and his brother heading out to sea to partake in the exercise. But alas, the aliens arrive, splashing down in the ocean nearby the naval exercises.
And then the fun commences from there as they surface and deploy an energy bubble around the region of the war games, trapping three Naval ships inside the bubble with them.
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