I almost want to tell you, “Don’t miss Knowing,” because it’s so ridiculous -- and so ridiculous in such an original way -- that you kinda have to see it to believe that anyone actually conceived this idea, and then that anyone actually tried to pull it off. It’s like this: Imagine that the nitwits who wrote those preposterous Left Behind apocalyptic end-times fantasies decided to try their pens at something X-Files-y... or what they thought would be X-Files-y. It might look a lot like this alternately dull and unintentionally hilarious blend of self-important tripe: half science fiction as people who don’t understand science fiction see it, and half pseudo-religious nonsense that thinks it’s comforting and doesn’t realize how downright creepy it is. Not creepy in a good way, of course: accidentally and inadvertently creepy by way of people who think the ideas that...
- 3/20/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
NALA Films has tapped Norberto Lopez Amado, who helmed the Spanish hit They're Watching Us (Nos Miran), to direct Night of Light. The film is a supernatural horror that centers on a man who was orphaned and raised by two priests. He goes to a small town with them to assist in what he thinks in an exorcism in the town. But a strange turn of events follows. The news follows NALA's recent signing of Columbian director Simon Brand for the film adaptation of La Magdalena in its efforts to develop a new creative platform for young Latin-American directors.
- 5/16/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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