'Push' touted as fun escapist fare
Mind control. Telekinesis. Spies. Secret government agencies. Push is a superhero thriller that involves anything a college student would want from a movie: evil organizations, explosions, a hot chick and people shooting guns with their minds.
The movie centers around Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a "mover," someone with the ability to manipulate inanimate objects at will by identifying the object's atomic frequency and alter the gravity waves around it. Following his father's murder at the hands of Division-an evil agency that captures psychics-Nick escapes to Hong Kong to live in hiding. However, he soon meets another psychic, Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), who, as a "watcher," has the ability to see the future. Gant is forced out of hiding as he and Holmes search for Kira (Camilla Belle), who is the only person to escape from Division and who holds the power to defeat the organization. With her powers as a "pusher," Kira can push certain thoughts into others, forcing them to act at her command. With Division on their tail, the three must find a way to stop the agency's plan to build an unstoppable militia of psychics.
Sci-fi for the waist-high
It's a shame there are no extra features on the DVD for City of Ember because there's probably at least an hour's worth of information about how the film's set designers created the grungy, falling-apart underground habitat of the title.
Ember is the city (more of a village, really) in which the remnants of humanity are huddled after some vaguely defined catastrophe forced them off the surface of the Earth. It combines the quaintest and grubbiest features of Dickens's London, The Matrix's Zion and the Shire from The Lord of the Rings.
Blooming Dakota Fanning takes on edgy role in return to sci-fi genreIt seems only yesterday that Dakota Fanning, then aged ten, starred as Tom Cruise's daughter in War Of The Worlds. Four years on she's back – and all grown up – on the red carpet for the premiere of another sci-fi thriller - Push. Looking far more sophisticated than her 14 years, the blooming starlet had chosen a mink coloured strapless gown to join Djimon Hounsou and other co-stars at the LA screening.
Heroes' Alexander Brings Us New Sci-Fi PilotJust when you thought you wouldn't be hearing any news from NBC with regards to original scripted programming, they've announced the green-lighting of a new pilot called Day One. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Day comes to us from Jesse Alexander, former writer-producer of Heroes. Alexander, as you may remember, was fired alongside fellow writer/producer Jeph Loeb due to the declining ratings and quality that occurred during Heroes Volume 3: Villains.
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