Matt Nolan

Ghosts of Mars -- Mars, 2176 AD. Long colonized by human settlers, the Red Planet has become the manifest destiny of an over-populated Earth. 640,000 people now live and work at far-flung outposts all over Mars, mining the planet for its abundant natural resources. But one of those mining operations has uncovered a deadly mother lode: a long-dormant Martian civilization whose warriors, now unleashed and apparent...

The Boys Life series continues with this quartet of gay-themed, independent shorts, starting out with the disturbing tale of a troubled black teenager who sets out to seduce an AIDS-prevention advocate. Other stories concern a one-night stand in which one of the participants claims to be straight; an online flirtation between an ex-con and an underage boy; and a hidden passion between high school friends.

From John Carpenter, the master of horror behind 1998's hit John Carpenter's Vampires and classics like The Thing and Halloween, comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense. Natasha Henstridge (Species) is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have been colonizing and mining on the red planet for some time, but when Ballard and her squad are sent to a remote region to apprehend the dangerous criminal James "Desolation" Williams, played by Ice Cube (Three Kings), they discover that he's the least of their worries. The mining operations have unleashed a deadly army of Martian spirits who take over the bodies of humans and won't stop until they destroy all invaders of their planet. With a stellar cast including Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Jason Statham (Snatch) and Clea Duvall (The Faculty), as well as explosive special effects, John Carpenter's Ghost of Mars is an intergalactic terror fest like you've never seen.

John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars. On a Red Planet that has become the manifest destiny of an overpopulated Earth, police Lt. Melanie must bring the planet's most notorious criminal to justice.