Escape From Planet Earth : Fun for Kids and Adults

Family comedies often focus so much on entertaining kids that the films forget about the adult viewers. “Escape from Planet Earth” provides enough laughs that kids and their parents will enjoy the film.Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser, The Mummy) is an astronaut loved by people of all ages. Whenever an alien planet kidnaps a person, Supernova rushes off to help. He gets help from his brother Gary (Rob Corddry, Hot Tub Time Machine), who stays close to home at Mission Control. When a distress signal comes in from the Dark Planet, Supernova thinks he should immediately rush to help, while Gary thinks his brother should stay back and let someone else go. Supernova goes against his brother`s wishes and runs off to the Dark Planet. Once there, viewers learn that the Dark Planet is actually Earth. When an evil military man decides to take Supernova hostage, Gary discovers that he`s the only one who can save his brother and defeat the evil lord of the Dark Planet. Films aimed at children tend to keep their content light, but Watch Escape from Planet Earth for free actually has a few darker moments. A spaceship traveling at high speed crushes a man, and a few scenes involve cannibalistic aliens. After Supernova reaches the Dark Planet, he encounters a general who often teases and tortures aliens who have found their way to Earth. Those scenes might be a little too dark for smaller children, but they keep this film from being just for kids. The humor in the film falls on the shoulders of Fraser and Corddry, and they do a great job of keeping the laughs going. Corddry superbly plays the straight man, while Fraser does a brilliant job of playing the action hero.

Broken City

Broken City is a 2013 American crime thriller film starring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe. The film was directed by Allen Hughes and written by Brian Tucker. Wahlberg stars as a police officer turned private investigator, and Crowe stars as the mayor of New York City who hires the private detective to investigate his wife. The film is Hughes first solo feature film directing effort; he has collaborated with his twin brother Albert in previous films. Allen met Tucker in 2010 and learned about Tucker`s spec script, which had languished in development hell since Mandate Pictures attempted to produce a film in 2008. Under a partnership between Emmett/Furla Films and Regency Enterprises, Hughes began production in 2011 in New York City and Louisiana. The film was released in theaters on January 18, 2013. Broken City was directed by Allen Hughes and written by Brian Tucker. In May 2008, Mandate Pictures bought Tucker`s spec script with the goal of attaching a director and a cast to film later in the year.In the following July, Mandate entered a deal with the company Mr. Mudd to produce together one film per year, the first being Broken City. The companies aimed to hire the cast and crew by late 2008. Production did not commence as planned, and the script remained in development hell. It became part of the film industry`s 2008 black list of “best, albeit unproduced, screenplays. Broken City was released in 2,620 theaters in the United States and Canada on January 18, 2013.The film competed with fellow openers Mama and The Last Stand as well as Silver Linings Playbook in its widening release. The Los Angeles Times said the film drew “the most interest from older audiences”.Prior to Watch Broken City for free release, Variety reported that the film was estimated to have a low to mid-teens opening weekend. It grossed $8.3 million on Friday through Sunday, ranking fifth. It grossed $9.5 million through the holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) on Monday.As of January 27, 2013, Broken City has grossed $12,320,000 in the United States and Canada.

The Host (2013 movie)

The Host is an American romantic science fiction film adapted from Stephenie Meyer s novel of the same name. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel, William Hurt, and Diane Kruger. It was released on March 29, 2013. The film has been generally panned by critics and performed modestly in box office sales.Producers Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, and Paula Mae Schwartz acquired the film rights to The Host in September 2009, but Open Road Films later acquired the film rights, and made Stephenie Meyer, Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, and Paula Mae Schwartz the main producers. Andrew Niccol was hired to write the screenplay and to direct the film. In February 2011, Susanna White was hired to replace Niccol as director, but he later resumed the role in May 2011. Saoirse Ronan was also cast in May as Melanie Stryder/Wanderer. On June 27, the release date was set for the film for March 29, 2013, and it was also announced that principal photography would begin in February 2012, in Louisiana and New Mexico. The film received a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America for “some sensuality and violence. It was Open Road`s first film to receive a rating below the usual R. The Host has been panned by critics, currently holding a 9% `rotten` rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 112 reviews. The consensus states: Poorly scripted and dramatically ineffective, The Host is mostly stale and tedious, with moments of unintentional hilarity.CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a B- on a scale of A to F. IGN gave it a mediocre score of 5/10, stating that the movie is unintentionally laughable and frustratingly absurd. Watch The Host for free was the penultimate film to be reviewed by film critic Roger Ebert before his death on April 4, 2013, and the last major movie to be published in his lifetime. He rated the film 2.5/4 stars, saying The Host is top-heavy with profound, sonorous conversations, all tending to sound like farewells. The movie is so consistently pitched at the same note, indeed, that the structure robs it of possibilities for dramatic tension .