Brave New Jersey 2016 Director Jody Lambert co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Dowling. I watched this on Amazon Prime. It's not strictly SF but it is related.
The movie takes place the night of the Mercury Theater radio dramatization of HG Well's The World Of The Worlds. Tony Hale is the mayor, he's pretty much a wallflower that gets bossed around by everyone. As the movie opens we meet members of the town, most of them have more personality than the mayor. The day passes quickly and soon the broadcast begins. That sets off a panic and the town's soon in an uproar.
It's a nice mix of mass hysteria and romantic comedy. The invasion brings out the best and worst of the locals and their relationships change, for better or worse. It made me laugh but I didn't feel the need to pick up a copy.
5th Passenger 2017 Director Scotty Baker co-wrote the screenplay with Morgan Lariah and David Henri Martin.
Morgan Lariah plays the comatose woman taken from a space ship's life pod as the film opens. Morgan's in sad shape so Marina Sirtis uses a device to access her memory. The Captain of the ship wants to know what happened to the pod and it's inhabitants, one of which was his brother.
The ship Morgan was on is going to explode and she gets into a pod with four others. It was designed for four, which will cause some complications. There's a lot of tension because Morgan is a non-citizen, someone to be shunned and called a roach, even though she's the most competent space pilot among them. It sounds like a really bad future. The future of the people in the pod is also bad, especially after the appearance of a murderous alien creature.
It was nearly average for me, a poor start put me off a bit. The story gets a trick inserted near the end, I could go either way on it, a lot of voters didn't like something about the movie, it's at a weak 3.2 on the IMDb with 1586 votes. Still, not one I'm going to collect or view again. I watched it on Amazon Prime, you can also see it on YouTube at the link above.
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