Laara Sadiq Movies

Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following the prophecy stated by the ancient Mayan calendar, which says that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) joins the race to ensure that humankind is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A severely beaten teenager, trapped in a walking purgatory between life and death, must help authorities to the location of his broken body before it's too late in this remake of the 2002 Swedish thriller Den Osynlige. Graduating senior Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) has plans to attend a prestigious writing workshop in London, despite the protests of his widowed mother (Marcia Gay Harden). In the days before his departure, he gets into a cafeteria brawl with a delinquent classmate, Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva), while defending his friend from her extortion attempts. Annie and her crew track Nick down on the night he's planning to leave, mistakenly thinking he ratted her out to the police regarding a smash-and-grab burglary committed the night before. When the subsequent beating goes too far, the assailants dump the body in the woods in a panicked attempt to dispose of it. Only, Nick isn't dead -- he's walking invisible among his classmates, friends, and family, desperately trying to alert them that he's still alive. Robbed of the traditional forms of communication, Nick must figure out supernatural methods of manipulating his environment -- and he soon realizes the very girl who attacked him may be the only one who has the power to save him. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Wounded by a stray bullet, Max (Jessica Alba) -- using the alias Linda Eastman -- is whisked off to Harbor Lights Medical Hospital. Knowing full well that knowledge of her unique DNA could be disastrous for herself and her fellow Manticore refugees, Max refuses to allow any testing of her blood. But unless another figure can intervene, her secret will soon be revealed to the world. And what of Max's nemesis White (Martin Cummins), whose behavior vis-à-vis the present situation is strange indeed? ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Seeking out new and advanced forms of intelligence, the SG-1 finds the planet Orban. Here the adult population uses its children to harvest knowledge for entire Orbanian race--then callously casts the youngsters aside when their usefulness has ended. Things take a poignant turn when O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and Carter (Amanda Tapping) befriend an 11-year old Orbanian named Merrin (Brittney Irvin). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

On the devastated planet P35233, Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks) comes upon a mirror-like alien artifact. Almost immediately, he is whisked into an alternate reality, in which he is no longer part of the Stargate program--and the earth is under attack from the Goa'ulds. Even worse, the Jaffa Teal'c (Christopher Judge) is still loyal to the Goa'ulds and is leading the attack. In his efforts to escape destruction, Jackson must also find a way to return to his own world and warn SG-1 of the horrors still to come. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Having unwittingly aided a fugitive from justice, the SG-1 team is put on trial, convicted, and sentence to the prison planet Hadante. Here they come in contact with hard-bitten female prisoner Linea (Bonnie Bartlett), who exerts a strange and powerful control over prisoners and guards alike. Linea offers to help the SG-1 if they in turn will help her escape. Team leader O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) agrees, little suspecting that Linea has a sinister hidden agenda. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

The SG-1 team arrives on planet P7J989, where they are immediately plunged into a virtual-reality trap. Over and over again, the team is forced to relive (and attempt to revise) the worst moments of their lives. Controlling this phenomenon is The Keeper (Dwight Schultz), who insists that the V-R exercises have been designed for the amusement of those living in a metallic chamber to protect them from their planet's pollution. But The Keeper is lying like a rug--as the team soon discovers to their horror. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

SG-1's Jaffa crew member Teal'c (Christopher Judge) is bombarded with bad news about his family. Because she believed herself to be a widow, Teal'c's wife Drey'auc (Brook Parker) has married his best friend Fro'tak (Peter Bryant). Worse still, the supposedly dead Apophis (Peter Williams) has captured and brainwashed Teal'c's son Rya'c (Neil Denis). Now the SG-1 team faces two nemeses: Fro'tak, who may betray them out of jealousy; and Rya'c, who has renounced his father and cast his lot with the dreaded Apophis. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

While on planet B96-3Q1, S-G's Jaffa crew member Teal'c (Christopher Judge) is bitten by a poisonous insect. Back on earth, Teal'c undergoes a horrifying metamorphosis--one that attracts the attention of Stargate Command colonel Maybourne (Tom McBeath), who intends to use Teal'c's DNA to create a new biological weapon. As the SG-1 team endeavor to develop a curative vaccine without Maybourne's knowledge, Teal'c escapes into the grimy city streets, where he bonds with a homeless girl named Ally (Colleen Rennison). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In the conclusion of a two-part story, the Tok'ra, a Goa'uld resistence movement, turns down the opportunity to allign with Stargate Command. Meanwhile, Jacob Carter (Carmen Agenziano), cancer-ridden father of SG-1 team member Amanda Carter (Amanda Tapping), is on the verge of death. Things brighten up when the Tok'ra agrees to fight alongside SG-1 provided that Jacob agree to serve as the host body for Tok'ra warrior Selmak, who is likewise at death's door. Though the two entities don't get along, Jacob and Selmak realize that each one's survival depends upon the other. The plot take a sinister turn when a spy betrays the Tok'ra to the Goa'uld. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi