I.S.S. – Tribeca 2023

I.S.S. isn’t much of a stretch as tensions flare on the International Space Station as war breaks out between the United States and Russia. Gabriela Cowperthwaite directs a tense thriller that will have audiences sitting on the edge of their seats. I.S.S. feels like one of those films that could have been ripped from the headlines. Interestingly enough, the film’s production notes point out that the Russian invasion of Ukraine started after they went into…

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Samaritan: A Grittier Superhero Movie

A teenager thinks his neighbor is a long-missing vigilante and does everything he can to get him out of retirement in Samaritan. Sam Cleary (Javon “Wanna” Walton) lives thinks that one of his neighbors, garbageman Joe Smith (Sylvester Stallone) is the titular Samaritan. The only thing is, the vigilante has not been seen since a terrible warehouse fire some 25 years earlier. If it is truly him, why stay in hiding when crime is rising?…

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Outside the Wire: A Future Aided By Robots

Outside the Wire imagines a world in 2036 where human troops on both sides are assisted by robotic soldiers and drone pilots. No, the film is not set in Baltimore.  It is clear to me that nobody is bothering to heed the warnings of the great machine uprising given to us in The Terminator films.  Next thing you know, some genius will attempt to open a theme park with dinosaurs.  Actually, that’s not a bad…

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