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Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp and Fionn Whitehead play young space travelers whose expedition to colonize a distant planet spins into chaos in Neil Burger s sci-fi thriller, also starring Colin Farrell.
Writer-director Neil Burger s visually alluring but dramatically underpowered sci-fi thriller about an interplanetary mission blitzed by a hormonal explosion,
Voyagers, is basically
Lord of the Flies in space. Or
Passengers without hypersleep pods. Either way, it s not terribly original. A solid cast and stylish design work in a spacecraft whose endless corridors become sprint lanes for cinematographer Enrique Chediak s invigorating camerawork make the Lionsgate release an easy watch and a big improvement over the studio s recent sci-fi snooze,
Voyagers Review: It s Lord of the Flies in Space, and in Hip Black T-Shirts Voyagers Review: It s Lord of the Flies in Space, and in Hip Black T-Shirts
A youth sci-fi action movie doesn t make any obvious wrong moves, but it s more dutiful than exciting.
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Director: Neil Burger
With: Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Colin Farrell, Chanté Adams, Viveik Kalra, Archie Madekwe, Quintessa Windell, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Madison Hu, Archie Renaux, Wern Lee.
Every era gets the youth sci-fi action movie it deserves. Twenty-five years ago, Paul Verhoeven made “Starship Troopers” (1997), and whatever you thought of that self-consciously over-the-top high-cheese parable of pinup actors battling giant bugs, there’s no denying it packed a wallop that was very late ’90s a revel in teen-idol decadence fused with rollicking tech-boom excess.
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cruise ship. an investigation under way thursday, may 9th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, welcome to today it s 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on a thursday. i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer. we are getting a closer look at ariel castro, a judge setting bond at a total of $8 million for the kidnapping and rape charges against him. we re learning more about the treatment of the alleged victims for some ten years. it s even more disturbing than expected. let us getting right to today national investigative correspondent jeff rossen who is covering the story. reporter: good morning. ariel castro is doing some terrible and unspeakable things from thinks girls. you ll hear the graphic chilling details in a moment. in court, as you mentioned within the past 90 minutes, he simply stared at the floor, looked down as the prosecutor laid out the charge