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INTERVIEW – In Conversation With Marc Zicree (Space Command)

By Marty Mulrooney

Marc Zicree Interview

Marc Scott Zicree is an award-winning writer/producer/director whose credits include such prestigious science fiction television shows as Star Trek – The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5 and Sliders. He is also the author of The Twilight Zone Companion. Marc was recently kind enough to join AMO for an exclusive online interview where we discussed his latest project – Space Command.

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FILM REVIEW – Moonrise Kingdom

By Ian McCabe

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson is back, at last, with the delightfully quirky Moonrise Kingdom, his seventh live action feature. Set in 1965 in the quaint New England town of New Penzance, it follows two fleeing unpopular young lovers and their ensuing search party of parents, the town’s police captain and the American Boy Scouts. It stars newcomers Kara Haywood and Jared Gilman alongside Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton and received a limited cinema release on the 25th May 2012.

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FILM REVIEW – A Bronx Tale (Blu-ray)

By Marty Mulrooney

A Bronx Tale - Blu-ray

A Bronx Tale is an American crime drama originally released in 1993. The directorial debut of actor Robert De Niro (who also stars), the film tells the story of Calogero Anello (Lillo Brancato, Jr.), a young man torn between his hardworking father Lorenzo (Robert De Niro) and local mafia boss Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) in the 1960s. Palminteri also wrote the script and it is based in part upon his childhood. The film was released by StudioCanal for the first time on Blu-ray on the 18th June 2012.

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FILM REVIEW – Prometheus

By Marty Mulrooney

PrometheusUK

Prometheus is a science fiction film directed by iconic English film director and producer Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator). The film serves as a loose prequel to his 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien, taking place in the same universe whilst exploring new themes and grander ideas. At the end of the 21st century, a team of scientists travel on the spaceship Prometheus to a distant planet in search of the ‘Engineers’ who created mankind and all life on earth.

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