Posted by: Christine on Aug 19th, 2007

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Go ahead – tell me I’m a traitor for not picking E.T. or Men In Black, or even Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I don’t care. My favorite alien movie ever, in fact one of my favorite movies period, is Signs. I have a very strange, intense fascination with this movie. I could discuss it for hours. I think the subtle plots points that build into the climax of the movie show that M. Night Shyamalan, despite what some critics may say, is a masterful storyteller. If you haven’t seen the movie, first of all shame on you. Secondly, the rest of my post has spoilers.

The beauty of the movie is in the subtleties. At first we have the crop circles, which could be a bunch of punk kids. Then they appear around the world. Then we have the animals acting strangely, which the town vet dismisses as “some kind of virus.” We see our hero Graham (Mel Gibson) get a glimpse of the alien’s leg in the field. Then Merill (Joaquin Phoenix) watches a news report with another glimpse of one of the aliens, this time in grainy black and white.

Posted by: Christine on Aug 3rd, 2007

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M. Night Shyamalan – writer/director of Signs, The Sixth Sense, etc. – has a new movie coming out in 2008 titled The Happening.

Starring Mark Wahlberg and John Leguizamo, The Happening is about a family on the run from natural disaster. No trailer or poster is available yet, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated.