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‘Surrogates’: When Virtual Technology Backfires

Posted in At Box Office, Film Genre, Film Rating, Film Release, Film Review, PG-13, Sci-Fi, Thriller with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 2, 2009 by Laura J. Bagby

surrogatesGet the full synopsis plus commentary in this movie review of the Touchstone science fiction film Surrogates.

Movie Synopsis

What if you could work, play sports, and enjoy a night out without ever having to leave your home, experience personal harm, or suffer negative consequences?

Welcome to the world of the new PG-13 sci-fi film Surrogates, where human operators are plugging into the Internet and letting their better-looking robotic selves called surrogates live out their lives for them. Continue reading

Spy Pigs: The ‘Force’ is With You

Posted in Action, Adventure, Animated, At Box Office, Family Friendly, Film Genre, Film Rating, Film Release, Film Review, PG with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2009 by Laura J. Bagby

GforceThe FBI has a new pet project. And who better to be the next guinea pigs on a government-funded secret ops mission than… well… real, live guinea pigs?

In this first Digital 3-D movie from producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a federally funded crew of animal secret agents known as “G-Force,” trained by Ben (Zack Galifianakis) and his assistant, Marcie (Kelli Garner), has just been tasked with stopping power-hungry businessman Leonard Saber (Bill Nighy) from implementing his mission of world domination. The goal of G-Force is to locate and destroy Saber’s computer program called Saber Sense (also known as Clusterstorm) before Saber gets the chance to activate microchips in his worldwide line of household appliances and turn them into sinister killing machines. Continue reading