View production, box office, & company info, Best New Rock/Pop/Electronic Albums/EPs of 2015, Danzig, Flaming Lips, Louis C.K. A quirky twist on the vampire tale, set in modern day corporate America. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. A small Maryland town is gripped by a curse which causes residents to take their own life one after another. If you watch this expecting a conventional Christmas movie, you'll be completely perplexed, of course, but there actually is a beautiful message in it. The latest from filmmaker André Øvredal (who directed the very cool "Trollhunter") is a strange beast, a film with some cool moments that ultimately loses itself between expansive indie thriller and odd fantasy franchise-starter. The resident Psychiatrist (Adam Goldberg) tells everyone to chill out on the baby visions, which look like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eraserhead, to no avail. Both the music and the spoken audio are taken to new places by this mix. Looking for some great streaming picks? You'd be confused, disappointed, and bored. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Was this review helpful to you? Nine friends, all a part of a dark secret no one wants to talk about, return for their high school homecoming, party hard in the woods and then wake up in the middle of the night with high-tech time bombs attached to their chests. Add the first question. As she gets closer to her due date, Charlotte's distrust grows for her dead lover's mom (Fiona Shaw) and his stepbrother (Jack Lowden), though are they the problem or is it all in her head? MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 meets Krubricks 2001, Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2008. I liked the innovative spaceship parking job (definitely the highlight of the film), and the initial color swirl thing. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. What I like best about this film though, is the genuinely scary depiction of what it must be like to be out in space (and no, I don't mean after taking too many drugs). It's good but be warned that it's extraordinarily dreary, if that's not your jam. Kudos to whomever was involved in mixing. The only thing I can recommend about this film is the soundtrack and the incredible 5.1 surround mix. Each scene, and its way of either slowing down or speeding up time, feels deeply imagined from the subconscious. Nat Wolff plays an American backpacker with crazy powers he doesn't understand who, when venturing through a Norwegian town, accidentally kills a bullying youngster without even touching him. However, if you loved CLERKS, for being a $30,000 self financed film, or ERAISERHEAD for Lynch's near 7 year effort to see it completed , or 200 MOTELS for being a rock band film that tried to be bizarre for its own artistic sake, then go ahead and buy this film. In the film – Spain's choice to tussle for the international Oscar – Rosa yearns for normalcy yet Higinio's crippling paranoia turns his need to stay hidden into a choice rather than a necessity. Clues include psychosis, as experienced by a man the script calls Astronaut Confronting Cosmic Reality (Kliph Scurlock), and other bizarre hardships, as other crew members that Major Lowell (Steve Burns) and the Sunglasses Wearing Astronaut (Michael Ivins) can attest to. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. The 86-minute film and its original score are presented in this stand-alone DVD. Tamara Lawrance plays Charlotte, a pregnant British woman planning a move to Australia with her boyfriend (Edward Holcroft) when he dies after being attacked by a horse and she's taken in by his family. There, he must face the hostile aliens to fight for his survival again. 83 minutes shot to hell. Check out our editors' picks for our favorite Prime Video original movies and TV series, including "The Boys," "Fleabag," and more. You dont need to be graduate of Film school, to make a film. Directed by Wayne Coyne, Bradley Beesley, George Salisbury. Title: Gaslighting, disturbing animal imagery – including a scene worthy of "The Birds" – and a pervading sense of dread run rampant in a psychological thriller that's not exactly innovative but decently effective. Filmed mostly in black and white, blasts of color during moments of psychic realization surrealistically tie the film’s visuals to Flaming Lips music, in which guitars and heavy drums explode rhythm. Major Syrtis goes insane as he tries to improve morale in an abandoned colony on Mars through a Christmas pageant, where the first colonist baby will be born. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Matt Damon gets left behind on Mars after a giant space storm in The Martian, leaving him to fend for himself. With 'Christmas on Mars,' psychedelia finally has its epic film. You'd enjoy it, even if you never HEARD of the Flaming Lips. Disclaimer: All movies, TV shows, and episodes on our ShowBox do not have any videos hosted by us. Please try again. Because this film rests on the D.I.Y concept behind Eraiserhead, Clerks and 200 Motels. Christmas on Mars A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips. What matters is the film’s undoubting sincerity. However, if you believe a good film is something that REQUIRES all those components, then dont even watch CHRISTMAS ON MARS. Christmas on Mars, plot-wise, stars Major Syrtis (Steven Drozd), the captain on a spaceship who notices, between hallucinations of a baby dying, that the crew is in danger due to malfunctioning equipment. There's a problem loading this menu right now. When a solider in the middle east gets wounded in the line of duty, he is teleported to the planet Barsoom. Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles. Low low budget coupled with non-actors, no script, and the realization that nobody gives a tinker's damn about any of the characters, let alone what is happening to them weighs this turkey down. In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Director Alice Winocour's film ably tweaks the usual space tale by having Green's stoic engineer weather all the usual training struggles – and a somewhat sexist American astronaut played by Matt Dillon – as well as the emotional toll it takes on both mother and daughter. While it helps to know a bit about the politics of the time (a quick Google will hook you up), the core relationship dynamic fuels the well-acted drama. Beginning in 1936 at the start of the Spanish Civil War, Republican newlywed Higinio (Antonio de la Torre) is hunted by Nationalists, betrayed by a neighbor (Vicente Vergara) and hidden by his seamstress wife Rosa (Belén Cuesta) for the next 33 years. to Guest on 'Portlandia', Flaming Lips Frontman On His First Comic Book. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. The archangel, Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest-turned-cop, a teacher and a little girl can stop him. Made almost exclusively in Coyne’s backyard, the sets impress because they really transport the viewer to space despite being made of recognizable hardware store materials. (In other words, good luck trying to keep them all straight in the dark.). With Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne, Steve Burns, Fred Armisen. Wayne Coyne’s directorial debut, Christmas on Mars, is a kitschy, homespun masterpiece that subverts film-judging criteria the way Ed Wood’s B-movies must have when they were first compared to horror back in the day. (2008). It's weird, and pretty dark throughout (but ultimately very uplifting). This FAQ is empty. Bradley Beesley, George Salisbury, Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne, Steve Burns, Fred Armisen, Scott Booker, English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Unqualified, English (DD 5.1 Surround), Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2016. 'Christmas on Mars' is a fantastical and disturbing film freakout. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Seven years in the making, 'Christmas on Mars' was directed and written by The Flaming Lips' visionary frontman Wayne Coyne and features the band members and many of their associates as actors in a story set during the colonization of Mars. is like comparing Christmas to Kwanza-one is the established real deal and the other is a pale, pale wannabe.Yes, they both occur in December but that is where the similarities end. 10 must-see new films to stream while stuck at home, from 'Mank' to 'Soul', From 'The Crown' Season 4 to Shawn Mendes documentary, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. 7 of 11 people found this review helpful. Set around Christmas, a group of New Yorkers struggle with their careers, love lives and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community. Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. I would be totally unfair, not to mention that this was a self financed film by the band FLAMING LIPS, and as such, is not benefitted by the mulitmillion dollar special effects budgets, top hollywood filmstars, famous directors and writers, and glamorous locales. When her boss needs to make some cuts, Kat Graham is a determined congressional aide sent to a tropical air base – known for dropping goods to needy islanders – to check out its efficiency, and Alexander Ludwig is the good-hearted Air Force captain assigned to show her around and trade barbs. Just a lot of Moxie, and imagination, and this movie has plenty of both. Comparing this to Eraserhead, Solaris, etc. Co-directed by Bradley Beesley and populated with many local Oklahoma City characters, including most of Flaming Lips, Coyne’s brothers, Denny and Kenny, and his wife, starring as the female of the film, Mother (Michelle Martin Coyne), Coyne explains in extras interview footage that the movie took seven years to complete simply because the musician shot between tours. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Please try again. Rocky IV: 1985: Rocky challenges Drago to an unsanctioned 15-round fight in the Soviet Union on Christmas Day Santa Claus: 1959: Santa must stop Satan from ruining Christmas. A shapeshifting figure makes itself known and the family wrestles with a foreboding doom that's entrenched in the house. If you dig space movies AND family dramas: 'Proxima' In this look at motherhood and parenting through an out-of-this-world lens, Green stars as a … After a tragic incident, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies. Rumors of this film’s release have been floating around forever, and the wait was worth it. Unable to add item to List. Anybody who's seen a Hallmark movie knows how this'll go, but at least an incoming typhoon and Virginia Madsen as a Scrooge-y congresswoman liven things up. In this look at motherhood and parenting through an out-of-this-world lens, Green stars as a French mom and astronaut training at Germany's European Space Agency who's chosen for a year-long Mars mission, but fulfilling her dream also means leaving behind her 7-year-old daughter (Zélie Boulant-Lemesle). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Christmas on Mars is another of Coyne’s attempts at expressing tension between peace of mind and utter insanity, and an undying, Lovecraftian attraction to abyss.