Its double movie time for this week’s Under the Radar. The first of the two is the film entitled ’77, the latest title that it’s been through within the past few years (previously being known as 5-25-77 or 1977 if that rings a bell). The film itself has gone through many hardships, been in and out of production for years and still looms on with an uncertain release date for the general audience. Despite all of that, ’77 involves the heart and dedication of many years of labor and love that a fair portion of us are interested in seeing. A creation not from the minds of random nerds but a autobiographical tale from director & writer Patrick Read Johnson, read on to see what it is all about.
Pat Johnson is the only Sci-Fi movie obsessed teen filmmaker in his rural hometown of Wadsworth, Illinois (population 750). Pat’s desire is to escape “fly-over country” for Hollywood. He first must overcome his fear of leaving everything he knows and loves behind to chase this unlikely dream. The pending release of a new movie called “Star Wars” on 5-25-77 is instrumental in shaping Pat’s destiny.
’77 has no set release date, but the scoop from Starlog.Com indicates that once November rolls around for Johnson that the public will get a glimpse of an impending release date to finally look forward to in the future. Once we get that vital amount of information, us folks here at Atomic Popcorn will keep you well informed.
Next is a film that some of you will be a bit more familiar with, being hailed already from some critics as one of the year’s best. This particular piece of cinema I am talking about is Duncan Jones’ Moon. A thrilling science fiction starring Sam Rockwell, Moon is a cinematic trek into the inner realms of a person’s fantasy and reality. Nearing the end of a three-year contract with Lunar Industries, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is counting the days until his return to Earth. The lone occupant of a lunar mining base, Sam monitors the tractors that harvest the moon’s surface for helium energy. Buoyed by sporadic transmissions from his wife and young daughter, he combats monotony and isolation by tending to plants, continuing his predecessor’s woodcraft project, and interacting with the station’s robotic computer, Gerty. But Sam is beginning to unravel mentally. After a hallucination causes him to crash his lunar rover, he wakes up in the sick bay and soon realizes that his life at the base is not what it seems.
Moon will be in limited release in New York and Los Angeles on June 12th.
[...] Jones’ debut film Moon, released in June of this year, features despondent astronaut Sam Bell (played with precision and [...]