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The Darkest Hour – Bluray Review
24 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) travel to Moscow to try to launch their new website and find that their supposed business partner Skyler (Joel Kinnaman) has taken advantage of the lack of a non-disclosure agreement and launched it on his own.
As the two disconsolate gentleman are at a loose end, trying to crack onto an Australian (Rachael Taylor) and an American (Olivia Thirlby) in a generic nightclub, the sky is lit up by descending balls of light (think a slightly more sparkly and yellow version of Attack the Block) which then start to move around the city, disintegrating everyone they come into contact with and draining the city of its power. Can our protagonists get to safety? Is there anywhere safe? Who will make it? Will the film be able to make us care? All will be answered.
*****
The Darkest Hour, as with many an eventually disappointing film before it, »
- Dave Roper
Survive The Darkest Hour With the Alien Survival Handbook
22 May 2012 | Horror Asylum | See recent Horror Asylum news »
Sci-fi horror tale 'The Darkest Hour' follows five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. To celebrate the 21 May 3D Blu-ray and DVD release here in the UK we have a special Alien Survival Handbook for you to check out which features 10 Dos and Dont's when faced with an alien invasion! 'The Darkest Hour' stars Emile Hirsch ('Speed Racer'), Rachael Taylor ('Shutter'), Olivia Thirlby, Joel Kinnaman, Max Minghella ('The Social Network'), Dato Bakhtadze, Yuriy Kutsenko, Artur Smolyaninov, Pyotr Fyodorov and Nikolay Efremov »
The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 21st May
21 May 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
After last week’s brilliant new releases in the home entertainment market, headed up by Steve McQueen’s Shame and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (I bought them both on Blu-ray, the latter in HMV’s exclusive steelbook special edition), this week sees another great slew of titles for us to add to our collections.
As ever, we have not just the brand new films and TV shows making their way to shelves for the first time, but also single-disc Blu-ray editions (which we’re increasingly seeing within a few months of the Double / Triple Play versions), and a host of films getting the HD treatment, released on Blu-ray for the first time, with Disney releasing a handful of old titles in the visually beautiful format.
Stay tuned for next week (and be sure to get your pre-orders in early), which will see Chornicle, Coriolanus, Martha Marcy May Marlene, »
- Kenji Lloyd
The Darkest Hour Blu-Ray Review And Giveaway
8 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
The Darkest Hour takes advantage of the popularity of many end of the world/alien takeover vehicles that have hit lately, and ups the ante somewhat by following a group of survivors who are twenty-somethings as they try to survive the onslaught of invisible invaders.
In an opening act that is a little longer than necessary, we meet our two main characters: Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) are computer geeks who have created a new App that is sure to be all the rage. They’re on their way to Moscow to close a deal, but things don’t quite work out as planned, and they arrive to find that they’ve had their intellectual property stolen from them… or whatever.
Hitting the Moscow nightlife to drown their sorrows, they meet up with two young American beauties, and the next thing you know, odd lights are appearing in the sky. »
- Marc Eastman
Contest: Win The Darkest Hour Blu-ray
24 April 2012 5:41 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The Darkest Hour is now on Blu-ray and DVD. This harrowing thriller from director Chris Gorak finds a group of Us tourists trapped in Moscow during an alien invasion and stars Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, Max Minghella, and Joel Kinnaman. We're so sure you'll love this exciting throwback to old school sci-fi classics that we're giving away the Blu-ray as part of a prize pack that also includes a comic book, a poster, a key chain, and a glow bracelet. All you have to do to win is enter our contest. Details are below.
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Blu-ray Review: ‘The Darkest Hour’ Deserves None of Your Time
18 April 2012 2:32 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “The Darkest Hour,” recently released on Blu-ray and DVD, may seem like a fun sci-fi action option for movie night. It is not. There’s nothing fun about this horrifically made film, easily one of the worst of 2011. It’s stunningly bad, almost as if it was made by college students. Otherwise talented actors get sucked into awful performances (both male leads have never given less genuine performances), the special effects are horrible, and there’s never even the slightest flicker of anything worth giving a damn about. When this flick was shuffled off unceremoniously without critics screenings on Christmas, I suspected it was bad (it only made $21 million domestically although, startlingly, accumulated $65 million worldwide). It was much worse than my expectations.
Blu-ray Rating: 0.5/5.0
There’s a theory that you can learn as much from a bad movie as a good one. Like rainy days make us appreciate the sunny ones, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Darkest Hour – Blu-ray review
18 April 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Blu-ray Review
Directed by: Chris Gorak
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor
Running Time: 1 hr 38 mins
Rating: PG-13
Due Out: April 10, 2012
Plot: A group of Americans visiting Moscow try to survive a spontaneous attack on the world brought by cloudy electric aliens.
Who’S It For? Do you love science fiction movies? And by that I mean, you love them so much that you will see their (ahem) darkest days just as much as their brightest moments? This one might strike your fancy. If you’re looking for an exciting movie of survival, you would probably be better off looking elsewhere. This one isn’t bound to grip your attention anytime soon.
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The Darkest Hour is a movie doomed by the mess it makes for itself in the plot synopsis available above. Typing it, I thought that one of the kids from Bully »
- Nick Allen
The Darkest Hour - Blu-ray Review - Clips Added!
14 April 2012 8:15 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Although the aliens are invisible and the human survivors run around with a weapon that looks like it is leftover from Ghostbusters, The Darkest Hour keeps the audience entertained. The movie manages to craft some tension, but is easily forgettable once the final credits roll. Produced by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and directed by Chris Gorak, the film features a screenplay by Jon Spaihts (who also wrote the story with Leslie Bohem and M.T. Ahern). It stars Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer), Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella (The Social Network), Rachael Taylor (Transformers), Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), and Veronika Ozerova. The film opens with Americans Ben (Minghella) and Sean (Hirsch) arriving in Moscow with dreams of »
- Patrick Luce
'Streetcar,' 'The Iron Lady,' And 'The Darkest Hour': This Week On Video
10 April 2012 9:53 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
This week on The Video Score, we've got all your new major video releases including an Oscar winner and a horror movie people didn't think too much of. There are also three great classics coming out, two of which are on Blu-ray. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is our pick of the week, just edging out Georges "Papa Georges" Méliès' "A Trip to the Moon," which should seem very timely if you checked out "Hugo" last year.
Pick of the Week
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951)
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh
Story:
In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal pain but also thinks »
- Kevin P. Sullivan
Blu-ray Review: The Darkest Hour
9 April 2012 3:00 PM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Director: Chris Gorak
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Olivia Thirlby, Joel Kinnaman, Veronika Ozerova
Writer: Jon Spaihts, Leslie Bohem, M.T. Ahern
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi action, violence and some language)
Run Time: 88 minutes
Synopsis:
A Sci-fi thriller featuring mind-blowing special effects from the minds of visionary filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and director Chris Gorak (Art Director Fight Club, Minority Report),The Darkest Hour is the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
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In the film, two internet entrepreneurs named Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella) travel to Moscow on business and find themselves amidst an alien invasion. After sheltering themselves during the initial attack, along with three other survivors, Natalie (Olivia Thirlby), Anne (Rachael Taylor) and Skylar (Joel Kinnaman), they sneak through the city evading alien invaders »
- Jason Moore
New on DVD and Blu-ray: 'The Iron Lady' and More
9 April 2012 12:00 PM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
This week: Meryl Streep has been nominated for more Oscars than any other actress, and the adoring Academy tossed her another little gold man this year for her performance as steely British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," a biopic that also took home an Oscar for Best Makeup.
Also new is this week is the sci-fi thriller "The Darkest Hour," the acclaimed British indie "Tyrannosaur" and the Blu-ray debut of "A Streetcar Named Desire," which includes previously censored footage.
Box Office: $29 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 53% Rotten
Storyline: This biographical drama stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of the United Kingdom. The enigmatic, controversial and often despised Thatcher was a grocer's daughter who overcame gender and class barriers, and whose steel determination helped her be heard in a world ruled by men.
Extras! "Recreating the Young Margaret Thatcher" highlights the other actress, »
- Robert DeSalvo
Review: The Darkest Hour
9 April 2012 10:16 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Since alien invasion films are nothing new, it all comes down to the execution. Having a vision of the characters and the nature of the attack will make or break a film and in the case of The Darkest Hour, it all falls flat. There’s a distinct lack of innovation to the set up or characters although director Chris Gorak and producer Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) get credit for setting the movie in Russia which at least gave us different visuals. But, the film then centers on a quartet of English-speaking foreigners with not enough of a fish out of water vibe to make it interesting. The movie, released in 3-D on Christmas Day was quickly dismissed by critics and audiences for being anything but a nice present.
The movie, out now from Summit Home Entertainment, focuses on Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella), two Americans in Russia to »
- Robert Greenberger
Watch: An Exclusive 'The Darkest Hour' Blu-ray Clip Reveals the Sequence That Got the Movie Made
9 April 2012 9:30 AM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
The Darkest Hour is high-concept sci-fi the likes of which Hollywood doesn't often get behind. Sure, there are plenty of alien invasion movies every year, but most are of the generic aliens in massive, overpowered ships attack major Us cities variety. Chris Gorak's film, however, doesn't bank on the spectacle of big floating hunks of metal attacking Los Angeles. It finds Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor and future RoboCop Joel Kinnaman hunkering down in Moscow while it's swarmed by aliens who are eager to get their invisible tendrils on anything with an electrical signature. If that happens to be a person, well, they go poof in an impressive way. Truth be told, what happens when aliens and humans collide is the best part of The Darkest...
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- Peter Hall
Blu-ray Review: The Darkest Hour
8 April 2012 2:00 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
The Darkest Hour arrives on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD from Summit Entertainment this Tuesday. Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) produces this apocalyptic sci-fi film from director Chris Gorak (Fight Club, Minority Report). The cast incldudes Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer, Into the Wild), Max Minghella (Ides of March, The Social Network), Olivia Thirlby (The Wackness, Dredd), and Joel Kinnaman (AMC's The Killing).
An alien life form has invaded Earth, and five young people find themselves stranded in Moscow to fight for their lives and human kind after the devastating attack. Minghella and Hirsch play software developers in Moscow trying to raise capital for their new social media hotspot application.
If the world is really this badly scripted, then I do not think it is worth saving. Fortunatlely, the world is not as bad as this films script and storyline. Jon Spaihts wrote the screenplay for this film, which is pretty lackluster. He »
- Tiberius
Light Up Your Day with Clips from The Darkest Hour Blu-ray and DVD!
5 April 2012 1:06 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
With the home video release of The Darkest Hour upon us, we figured we'd hit you guys off with some clips to get you ready for the invisible alien invasion. Grab your flashlights!
From the Press Release
The electrifying science-fiction thriller The Darkest Hour arrives on 3D Blu-ray™, Blu-ray, and DVD April 10th from Summit Entertainment. Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer, Into the Wild), Max Minghella (Ides of March, The Social Network), and Olivia Thirlby (TV’s “Bored to Death,” Dredd) star in this story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow and fight to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
With Moscow’s classic beauty as the backdrop, The Darkest Hour features mind-blowing special effects from the minds of visionary filmmakers Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and Chris Gorak (Fight Club, Minority Report). The suspense never lets up as the invaders begin their assault on Earth, »
- Uncle Creepy
Exclusive: The Darkest Hour Blu-ray Clip
4 April 2012 3:19 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
We have an exclusive clip from Summit Entertainment's The Darkest Hour, which debuts on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD April 10. Check out this scene where Emile Hirsch and Max Minghella take shelter under an abandoned police car, to get away from this deadly and mysterious force.
The Darkest Hour Br/DVD: Exclusive Hiding in the Cop Car
With Moscow's classic beauty as the backdrop, The Darkest Hour features mind-blowing special effects from the minds of visionary filmmakers Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and Chris Gorak (Fight Club, Minority Report). The suspense never lets up as the invaders begin their assault on Earth, targeting the planet's power supply.
Once the credits roll, see what happens next in The Darkest Hour: Survivors, an all-new short film following the rebel resistance around the globe! The fight continues as freedom fighters in Tokyo, Malibu and Afghanistan work together to develop new technology and strike »
- MovieWeb
Will Gluck Set To "Disappear Completely"
16 March 2012 9:26 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
"Easy A" and "Friends with Benefits" director Will Gluck is attached to helm "How to Disappear Completely", a remake of the Swiss drama "Vitus", for Sony and Escape Artists says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story centers on an academic and music prodigy who suffers under the constant scrutiny of his over-protective parents.
His life takes a dramatic turn after an accident causes him to revert back to "normal" intelligence.
Gluck will also develop a draft of the script from an earlier version by Ed Solomon. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Max Minghella and Timothy Bricknell are producing. »
- Garth Franklin
Will Gluck Will ‘Disappear Completely’
16 March 2012 5:55 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
I’ll make an effort to abstain from any Radiohead/Kid A references and give you the straight facts. As THR informs us, Will Gluck (Easy A, Friends with Benefits) is adding another project to his plate — one which is set up at Sony, to the surprise of no one — entitled How to Disappear Completely.
A remake of Fredi M. Murer‘s 2006 drama, Vitus, which co-starred Bruno Ganz, Disappear will follow a young piano player who tries to evade his controlling parents and “amass a fortune in the stock market [that will] change the lives of those around him.” Right now, Gluck has been commissioned to work on the script — Men in Black scribe Ed Solomon gave that a stab earlier — and direct whatever results from that. Max Minghella is producing with Timothy Bricknell through their Ant Colony Films; Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal are also attached in this regard.
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- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
'Friends With Benefits' Director Takes on Sony's 'How to Disappear Completely' (Exclusive)
16 March 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Will Gluck is in negotiations to come aboard How to Disappear Completely, Sony and Escape Artists’ remake of the Swiss drama Vitus. Gluck will develop a draft of the script and is attached to direct. The movie centers on an academic and music prodigy who suffers under the constant scrutiny of his over-protective parents. His life takes a dramatic turn after an accident causes him to revert back to "normal" intelligence. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Ant Colony's Max Minghella and Timothy Bricknell are producing. Ed Solomon (Men in Black) wrote the initial English-language script. Disappear Completely, while still
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- Borys Kit
The Darkest Hour 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD Arrive April 10th
9 March 2012 8:16 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The electrifying science-fiction thriller The Darkest Hour arrives on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD April 10th from Summit Entertainment. Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer, Into the Wild), Max Minghella (The Ides of March, The Social Network) and Olivia Thirlby (TV's Bored to Death, Dredd) star in this story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow and fight to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
With Moscow's classic beauty as the backdrop, The Darkest Hour features mind-blowing special effects from the minds of visionary filmmakers Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and Chris Gorak (Fight Club, Minority Report). The suspense never lets up as the invaders begin their assault on Earth, targeting the planet's power supply.
Once the credits roll, see what happens next in The Darkest Hour: Survivors, an all-new short film following the rebel resistance around the globe! The fight continues as freedom fighters in Tokyo, »
- MovieWeb
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