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Soyuz spacecraft, today. When NASA astronauts Kira Foster (Ariana DeBose) and Christian Campbell (John Gallagher Jr.) arrive at the ISS, they are greeted with camaraderie and excitement by their compatriot Gordon Barrett (Chris Messina) and by Russian cosmonauts Veronica Vetrob (Masha Mashkova) and the Pulov brothers, (Costa Ronin, Pilou Asbæk) with whom they will work side by side. From space, they contemplate a majestic and wonderful Earth free of borders, until explosions begin to occur everywhere. Then the crew members of the space capsule receive respective orders from their governments. The war on Earth will be decided in space !.
Science fiction thriller that takes place entirely on the International Space Station (ISS), a symbol of cooperation between the United States and Russia. The main issue deals with a conflict breaks out on Earth, reeling, the U. S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary. From now on, after receiving expeditious orders from their respective governments, a multitude of incidents unfold that will be marked by impulses such as fear, love, courage, patriotism or the sense of right and wrong. I. S. S. Isn't a political movie but it shows how "the brunt" of geopolitical conflicts "falls on the little people. Starring Ariana DeBose giving a good acting, she auditioned prior to winning an Oscar for West Side Story. Cowperthwaite was impressed by the understated and nuanced approach DeBose took to the role. DeBose's background as a dancer helped with portraying the character in zero gravity.
In the original script, Dr. Kira Foster/DeBose was researching microbes instead of mice. Scott Kelly's memoir Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery was used as research for the film and inspired how the mice react to zero gravity.
The creation of the International Space Station symbolized the collaboration between the United States and Russia after the Cold War. The ISS is primarily used as a research center where the crew makes advances in medicine, technology and space exploration. Today, both American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts live on board the ISS.
Late 2020, Nick Shafir's screenplay I. S. S. Was included on that year's "Black List" of most-liked unproduced screenplays. In 2021, it was announced that the film had been greenlit for production by LD Entertainment with Gabriela Cowperthwaite directing. The motion picture was professionally ditected by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, though it has some failures. She said of the film, "I come from these earnest documentaries and dramas and stuff like that, but I love a fun ride. I'm a popcorn-chomping moviegoer...And so being able to be entrusted, with that world, that genre, whilst maybe bringing some of that humanity that I feel is more my tool set into it felt like a very fun challenge." I. S. S. Made boxoffice enough, when released in North America, the film made $1.2 million from 2,520 theaters on its first day and went on to gross $3 million from its opening weekend, finishing seventh at the box office Cowperthwaite has directed a few movies, such as: The Grab (2022), Children of the Underground (2022), Our Friend (2019), Megan Leavey (2017), City Lax: An Urban Lacrosse Story (2010), and her big hit was the notorious documentary Blackfish (2013). I. S. S. Rating: 6/10. Acceptable and passable film with plenty of decent special effects.
Science fiction thriller that takes place entirely on the International Space Station (ISS), a symbol of cooperation between the United States and Russia. The main issue deals with a conflict breaks out on Earth, reeling, the U. S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary. From now on, after receiving expeditious orders from their respective governments, a multitude of incidents unfold that will be marked by impulses such as fear, love, courage, patriotism or the sense of right and wrong. I. S. S. Isn't a political movie but it shows how "the brunt" of geopolitical conflicts "falls on the little people. Starring Ariana DeBose giving a good acting, she auditioned prior to winning an Oscar for West Side Story. Cowperthwaite was impressed by the understated and nuanced approach DeBose took to the role. DeBose's background as a dancer helped with portraying the character in zero gravity.
In the original script, Dr. Kira Foster/DeBose was researching microbes instead of mice. Scott Kelly's memoir Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery was used as research for the film and inspired how the mice react to zero gravity.
The creation of the International Space Station symbolized the collaboration between the United States and Russia after the Cold War. The ISS is primarily used as a research center where the crew makes advances in medicine, technology and space exploration. Today, both American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts live on board the ISS.
Late 2020, Nick Shafir's screenplay I. S. S. Was included on that year's "Black List" of most-liked unproduced screenplays. In 2021, it was announced that the film had been greenlit for production by LD Entertainment with Gabriela Cowperthwaite directing. The motion picture was professionally ditected by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, though it has some failures. She said of the film, "I come from these earnest documentaries and dramas and stuff like that, but I love a fun ride. I'm a popcorn-chomping moviegoer...And so being able to be entrusted, with that world, that genre, whilst maybe bringing some of that humanity that I feel is more my tool set into it felt like a very fun challenge." I. S. S. Made boxoffice enough, when released in North America, the film made $1.2 million from 2,520 theaters on its first day and went on to gross $3 million from its opening weekend, finishing seventh at the box office Cowperthwaite has directed a few movies, such as: The Grab (2022), Children of the Underground (2022), Our Friend (2019), Megan Leavey (2017), City Lax: An Urban Lacrosse Story (2010), and her big hit was the notorious documentary Blackfish (2013). I. S. S. Rating: 6/10. Acceptable and passable film with plenty of decent special effects.
The film begins as usual with a first cold-blooded murder which foreshadows the worst of what is to come next. And as is ordinary in slashers, an axe-wielding killer is on the loose. A group of teenagers come at an LGBTQ+ conversion camp in a wooded area. Currently the camp called ¨Whistler Camp¨ whose titles on the entrance poster are ¨Respect¨, ¨Renew¨, ¨Rejoyce¨, is operated by Owen Whistler (Kevin Bacon) and his wife, Dr. Cora Whistler (Carrie Preston). The Whistlers have a small staff of four: activities director Amy (Noë Cameron) , her gay-conversion-camp-alumni-turned-athletics-director boyfriend Zane (Boone Platt), groundskeeper Balthazar (Mark Ashworth), and Molly (Anna Chlumsky), the camp counselor. Then , the youngsters endure unsettling psychological techniques. Eventually, teens and employees are picked off in a murder streak by an unknown assailant. Here the list of suspects is very short, but one of them is the one who is exercising the criminal spree. Fear doesn't discriminate !.
This horror thriller contains chiller, gruesome killings, gore, blood, nudism, too much talk, and includes a surprisingly unnecessary musical number. Screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator, Aviator) in his directorial debut, along with established actor Kevin Bacon and the emblematic horror production company Blumhouse run by Jason Blum, come together in this terrifying thriller in the form of a slasher at a conversion camp for young queer people. The latter go to 'Whistler', a sexual conversion camp, a supposed safe place based on mutual respect or so they would have you believe, of course, things go wrong when they're being stalked by a mysterious masked killer.
This is one of Jason Blum's many productions in the horror genre. His formula for making movies as inexpensively as possible does not mean looking for low-budget movies to see if he likes them, but looking for movies he likes, and then see if they can be done on a low budget. According Jason Blum himself his rules for making a cheap movie include: limit the amount of speaking parts, because actors with lines get an additional fee; limit the amount of locations (preferably only one) and pay actors the legally minimum, and offer them a percentage of perspective profits, that's why Kevin Bacon is co-producer as well. His notorious films include the following: ¨The Exorcist: Believer¨, ¨Get Out¨, ¨Night Swin¨, ¨M3GAN¨, ¨Halloweeen Kills¨, ¨The Gallows Act I and II¨, ¨Insidious saga¨, ¨Firestarter¨, ¨Exposure¨, ¨Nanny¨, ¨A House on the Bayou¨ , ¨The Invisible Man¨, ¨Us¨, ¨Happy Death Day 1 and 2¨, among others.
The motion picture was lousily written/directed by John Logan in his debut film. Logan is a prestigious screen writer, but in They/Them he did not demonstrate his skills as a writer or director. He's also a playwright, in fact he was awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work for "Hauptmann" and his play, "Never the Sinner", at the Stormfield Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1986 Joseph Jefferson Award. Logan has written scripts of notorious and successful films, such as : Syfall, Spectre, Red, Hugo, The Last samurai, Genius, Alien: Covenant, Gladiator, Star Trek: Nemesis, RKO 281, Rango, Sinbad: Legend of the seven seas, Coriolanus, The Time Machine, Bats. As well as hit television series : Penny Dreadful and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. They/Them rating: 3.5/10. A boring and silly slasher with no interest.
This horror thriller contains chiller, gruesome killings, gore, blood, nudism, too much talk, and includes a surprisingly unnecessary musical number. Screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator, Aviator) in his directorial debut, along with established actor Kevin Bacon and the emblematic horror production company Blumhouse run by Jason Blum, come together in this terrifying thriller in the form of a slasher at a conversion camp for young queer people. The latter go to 'Whistler', a sexual conversion camp, a supposed safe place based on mutual respect or so they would have you believe, of course, things go wrong when they're being stalked by a mysterious masked killer.
This is one of Jason Blum's many productions in the horror genre. His formula for making movies as inexpensively as possible does not mean looking for low-budget movies to see if he likes them, but looking for movies he likes, and then see if they can be done on a low budget. According Jason Blum himself his rules for making a cheap movie include: limit the amount of speaking parts, because actors with lines get an additional fee; limit the amount of locations (preferably only one) and pay actors the legally minimum, and offer them a percentage of perspective profits, that's why Kevin Bacon is co-producer as well. His notorious films include the following: ¨The Exorcist: Believer¨, ¨Get Out¨, ¨Night Swin¨, ¨M3GAN¨, ¨Halloweeen Kills¨, ¨The Gallows Act I and II¨, ¨Insidious saga¨, ¨Firestarter¨, ¨Exposure¨, ¨Nanny¨, ¨A House on the Bayou¨ , ¨The Invisible Man¨, ¨Us¨, ¨Happy Death Day 1 and 2¨, among others.
The motion picture was lousily written/directed by John Logan in his debut film. Logan is a prestigious screen writer, but in They/Them he did not demonstrate his skills as a writer or director. He's also a playwright, in fact he was awarded the 1987 Joseph Jefferson Award Citation for New Work for "Hauptmann" and his play, "Never the Sinner", at the Stormfield Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 1986 Joseph Jefferson Award. Logan has written scripts of notorious and successful films, such as : Syfall, Spectre, Red, Hugo, The Last samurai, Genius, Alien: Covenant, Gladiator, Star Trek: Nemesis, RKO 281, Rango, Sinbad: Legend of the seven seas, Coriolanus, The Time Machine, Bats. As well as hit television series : Penny Dreadful and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. They/Them rating: 3.5/10. A boring and silly slasher with no interest.
An enjoyable and attractive movie, being a tribute to the teenage cinema of the 80s. The influences from other films are countless, especially those from the eighties. With a Spielberg aesthetic, a pure synthesizer soundtrack in the style of John Carpenter's films and with many characters close to the comic books. Set in the summer of 1984, in the small seaside town of Cape May, Oregon, it is plagued by the "Cape May Slayer", a serial killer responsible for the disappearances of 13 teenage boys in the county over the decade prior. There lives Davey: Graham Verchere, a 15-year-old boy who loves conspiracies. After learning of the disappearance of several teenagers in the vicinity of his neighborhood, the young man decides to get involved in the case, suspecting at first his strange neighbor, but he turns out to be a policeman. Then, Davey and his group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
A terror, thriller and suspense film with an eighties aesthetic directed by the trio of Canadian directors RKSS, and starring a team of good actors that is unknown to the general public. The story offers us a thriller, halfway between the detective adventures of Steven Spielberg's Amblin production company, such as 'The Goonies' or ¨J. J. Abrams' Super 8 (2011), as well as the disturbing stories of Stephen King. The film takes us to a nostalgic universe full of synthesizers, walkie talkies, bowling alleys, and of course the typical 'bicycles' and including a peculiar psychopath to add to the mix. The film is quite good, about a nice and friendly group of friends who remember when they were simple teenagers in the eighties.
This film is the second feature of directors François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell, who explain the following: "We have conceived a love story surrounded by the elements of the cinema with which we grew up: familiar scenarios, naive groups of teenagers looking for new experiences, twisted intrigues, first loves, and BMX tricks. All with a retro inspiration, not only in the visual part, but also in the development of the narrative. We wanted to attract a whole new generation of disturbed children and adults.¨
This short-budget film was notably made by directors François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell (RKSS) and it was presented with great success at the Sitges festival. They direct professionally and adequately all kinds of genres. They're working interchangeably for television or cinema. Their debut feature was ¨Turbo Kid¨, it is a post-apocalyptic film made in 2015, an anti-prophetic story with a lot of gore, which adds an eighties science fiction aesthetic and shows a past that has not come to fruition. And continuing ¨We Are Zombies¨ (2023) dealing with a city infested with the living-impaired aka non-cannibal zombies - three slackers, after easy money, must fight small-time crooks and an evil mega corporation to save their kidnapped grandma. And following the slasher ¨Wake up¨(2023), a disturbing survival story full of horrror, chiller and chases.¨Summer of 84¨ rating: Better than average 7/10. This is an amusing mess made in Spielberg style, the goal was to pay homage to the movies of the '70s and 80s; that's why it'll appeal to cinema nostalgics.
A terror, thriller and suspense film with an eighties aesthetic directed by the trio of Canadian directors RKSS, and starring a team of good actors that is unknown to the general public. The story offers us a thriller, halfway between the detective adventures of Steven Spielberg's Amblin production company, such as 'The Goonies' or ¨J. J. Abrams' Super 8 (2011), as well as the disturbing stories of Stephen King. The film takes us to a nostalgic universe full of synthesizers, walkie talkies, bowling alleys, and of course the typical 'bicycles' and including a peculiar psychopath to add to the mix. The film is quite good, about a nice and friendly group of friends who remember when they were simple teenagers in the eighties.
This film is the second feature of directors François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell, who explain the following: "We have conceived a love story surrounded by the elements of the cinema with which we grew up: familiar scenarios, naive groups of teenagers looking for new experiences, twisted intrigues, first loves, and BMX tricks. All with a retro inspiration, not only in the visual part, but also in the development of the narrative. We wanted to attract a whole new generation of disturbed children and adults.¨
This short-budget film was notably made by directors François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell (RKSS) and it was presented with great success at the Sitges festival. They direct professionally and adequately all kinds of genres. They're working interchangeably for television or cinema. Their debut feature was ¨Turbo Kid¨, it is a post-apocalyptic film made in 2015, an anti-prophetic story with a lot of gore, which adds an eighties science fiction aesthetic and shows a past that has not come to fruition. And continuing ¨We Are Zombies¨ (2023) dealing with a city infested with the living-impaired aka non-cannibal zombies - three slackers, after easy money, must fight small-time crooks and an evil mega corporation to save their kidnapped grandma. And following the slasher ¨Wake up¨(2023), a disturbing survival story full of horrror, chiller and chases.¨Summer of 84¨ rating: Better than average 7/10. This is an amusing mess made in Spielberg style, the goal was to pay homage to the movies of the '70s and 80s; that's why it'll appeal to cinema nostalgics.