Was "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" Inspired By "Lost In Space"? (video)

Star Trek's "V'ger" and Lost In Space's "Mr. Nobody" aren't that different.

In both stories, an all-powerful being yearning to evolve...

...achieves transcendence through love.

Both are reborn as newly self-aware space-dwelling energy beings.


("Lost In Space" Season 1 Episode 7 "My Friend Mr. Nobody", 1965)

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Was "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" Inspired By "Lost In Space"? (video)

My Two Cringiest "Star Wars" Callbacks (video)

 

 

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My Two Cringiest "Star Wars" Callbacks (video)

"PROJECT ITHACA" Comes to the Big Screen Across Canada and the US Starting 6/7/19 -- See Trailer HERE!

Wild Media Entertainment’s Newest Sci-Fi Thriller

"PROJECT ITHACA"

Comes to the Big Screen Across Canada and the US
Starting June 7, 2019

The highly anticipated sci-fi thriller is a stunning example of elevated genre. Project Ithaca releases theatrically and across all digital platforms in North America starting on Friday, June 7, 2019


TORONTO (May 31, 2019) – Wild Media Entertainment and Raven Banner Releasing, the Canadian distribution arm of Raven Banner Entertainment,announce the Canadian release of sci-fi thriller, PROJECT ITHACA on June 7, 2019, which coincides with the US release of the movie, via Saban Films. Raven Banner Releasing is handling Canadian distribution.

The film showcases an international ensemble cast starring JAMES GALLANDERS (SAW II, BRIDE OF CHUCKY, MURDER AT 1600), DERAGH CAMPBELL(FAIL TO APPEAR, NEVER EAT ALONE, THE OTHER HALF), DANIEL FATHERS (Dark Matter, Snatch) and ALEX WOODS (BURNING MUSSOLINI, The Expanse, Covert Affairs).

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Starring:
JAMES GALLANDERS (SAW II, BRIDE OF CHUCKY, MURDER AT 1600),
DERAGH CAMPBELL(FAIL TO APPEAR, NEVER EAT ALONE, THE OTHER HALF),
DANIEL FATHERS (Dark Matter, Snatch) &
ALEX WOODS (BURNING MUSSOLINI, The Expanse, Covert Affairs)

Special theatrical screenings will take place on the following dates in Canada:

June 12: SilverCity Sudbury Cinemas (Sudbury, ON)
June 17: Cineplex Odeon International Village (Vancouver, B.C.)
June 17: Cineplex Cinemas Yonge- Dundas (Toronto, ON)
June 17: Montreal’s Latin Quarter (Montreal, QC)
June 18: Globe Cinema (Calgary, AB)
June 20: Mayfair Theatre, (Ottawa, ON)

The final battle will be for your mind as PROJECT ITHACA comes to these theatres in the US, via Saban Films, starting Friday, June 7, 2019:

NYC - Cinema Village
LA - AMC Rolling Hills 20
Chicago - AMC Woodridge 18
Cleveland - AMC Solon 16
Dallas - AMC Irving 10
Detroit - AMC Southfield 20
Minneapolis - AMC Apple Valley 15
Orlando - AMC W Melbourne
Phoenix - AMC Arizona Center 24
Seattle - AMC Gateway 8


PROJECT ITHACA will also be available across online platforms in Canada,releasing the film first on iTunes June 21st (pre-sale only) with VOD release to follow on July 9th on the following platforms (with more to follow):

    iTunes
    Cineplex
    Shaw
    Vimeo

“We’re extremely excited for audiences in Canada and the US to experience a fresh take on the genre,” says James Milligan, Producer and CEO of Wild Media Entertainment.  Anthony Artibello, Producer and CCO of Wild Media adds, “Project Ithacahas an emotional resonance audiences might not expect from this type of film.”

In the highly anticipated PROJECT ITHACA, a smart sci-fi thriller with stunning production design and amazing visual effects, a group of strangers awakens aboard an alien spacecraft.  Divided they will die, but together, they hope to find a way home.

“Wild Media’s objective was to create a theatrical quality, cinematic feature film with emerging talent,” says Milligan.  “I believe we delivered in front of the camera but also in post.  The team assembled was top notch and it shows in the VFX, colour and score.  Saban Films (USA) and Raven Banner Entertainment (CAN) are the final players bringing PROJECT ITHACA to audiences across North America.  We’re thrilled to be partnered with them.”

As evident with the success of new titles like this one, Wild Media Entertainment continues to operate as a home for elevated genre and continues to help pave the way for filmmakers in this rapidly changing marketplace.

The film was made possible, in part, with the support of Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, Ontario Creates and NBCUniversal.

About Wild Media Entertainment
Wild Media is a television and feature film production company, based in Toronto with an office in Vancouver.  Wild Media produces high quality content that is appealing to audiences around the world. Wild Media has a number of projects in development for feature film, television and animation and has recently launched WildFX, a boutique visual effects division.

For more information, please visit http://wildmediaent.com

 
About Raven Banner Releasing, Inc.
Raven Banner Releasing is the Canadian distribution arm of Raven Banner Entertainment - a full-service company specializing in innovative and compelling genre films from around the world.  Past releases include Gaspar Noe’s Climax,The Autopsy of Jane Doe,M.F.A, Don't Knock Twice, Baskin, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil:  The End of the End, Trench 11 and The Crescent.

For more information about Raven Banner Entertainment, please visit https://ravenbannerentertainment.com

"PROJECT ITHACA" Comes to the Big Screen Across Canada and the US Starting 6/7/19 -- See Trailer HERE!

WASTELANDER -- DVD Review by Porfle

You have to give credit to director/writer/actor Angelo Lopes (GUNHEAVY).  Many filmmakers would've taken such an extremely modest budget and made something nice and safe, like a quirky, intimate love story or light rom-com. Lopes, on the other hand, took it and made a freakin' Mad Max movie.

Granted, WASTELANDER (Indican Pictures, 2018) isn't going to fool anyone into thinking Mel Gibson or Thomas Hardy are apt to pop up from behind a rock.  It's more reminiscent of similar low-rent rust-and-grunge efforts from way back such as 1983's "Metalstorm" and "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone", or the more recent "2307: Winter's Dream."

This means lots of desert locations, scrounged tech props, and decrepit sets made from scrap metal and other refuse.  Which is in keeping with the decayed post-apocalyptic landscape through which our hero, Rhyous (Brendan Guy Murphy), wanders in search of "Eden."

With his memory half gone, he's not even sure what "Eden" is, only that he must find it. But a strange cyborg being named Benedict with a robotic body and a holographic computer monitor for a face wants to find it too, and offers to buy Rhyous' services. When he refuses, Benedict sics his ragtag soldiers on him.

But even this is nothing compared to the menace of the marauding group of even-more-ragtag baddies known collectively as The Scourge.  Imagine a group of warmongering losers that even Humungus' crew from "The Road Warrior" would look down upon, and you've got a good idea of how low these guys are.

Fortunately, Rhyous manages to kill a whole bunch of them during various hand-to-hand battles and full-scale laser blaster fights in which he's helped by some of the other outcasts he grudgingly picks up along the way.

These include comedy-relief warrior-wannabe Solek (sort of this movie's equivalent of the Gyro-Captain) and a plucky female fighter named Neve who wants to hook up with Rhyous in more ways than one.

There are many other characters, too many to keep track of, in fact, and I had a good bit of difficulty telling them apart in their big breathing helmets and similar outfits.  The only real constant is Rhyous, one of those quiet, unimposing heroes (a designation he earns mainly by killing so many bad guys) whom you don't want to get wound up since that results in the shooting and the killing and the hurting. 

Some of his "Road Warrior" moments come when faced with having to help those weaker and less self-sufficient as himself, and also during a small-scale vehicle chase that must've eaten up a precious percentage of the budget. 

Pulp sci-fi gets its due in several scenes, including those laser gun battles with everyone shooting wildly and some other interesting digital effects that modern B-movies can avail themselves of.  The nicely-done "Eden" sequence, on the other hand, elevates the film to the level of really intriguing sci-fi for a few minutes.

As an actor, Murphy isn't Olivier but handles this "taciturn loner bad-ass in black leather" stuff well.  The rest of the cast is good-to-adequate, with special note to Sian Vilaire as Scourge Queen "Miranda" and Lopes himself as the freakish "Benedict."

Technically, the film is all over the place, with some sequences nicely-shot--especially the more futuristic sci-fi stuff--and others, mainly the action sequences, being comprised of too much shaky-cam and choppy editing and some continuity that's pretty hard to follow.

All in all, however, you can't fault WASTELANDER too much for its game effort to turn modest resources into "Mad Max"-style thrills with a little imagination and a lot of ambition.  It's interesting just to watch Angelo Lopes knocking this makeshift post-apocalyptic free-for-all together. 


Tech Specs
Runtime: 90min
Format: 1:78 HD
Sound: Dolby Sr.
Country: USA
Language: English
Website: www.IndicanPictures.com
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Captions: English
Extras: Bloopers, three teaser trailers

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WASTELANDER -- DVD Review by Porfle