In a year-end season stacked deep with worthwhile films, what possible incentive could there be for submitting to The Darkest Hour’s utter pointlessness?

The Darkest Hour A modestly inventive and involving variation on a standard-issue sci-fi doomsday scenario.

Title: The Darkest Hour Directed By: Chris Gorak Starring: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman, Veronika Ozerova

Michael Caine once confessed that he'd taken an acting job, on occasion, for "the travel" - the chance to spend a few weeks or months in the Bahamas or Monaco. And every now and then one of his peers will let slip that he or she REALLY wanted to do this Z-grade vampire/ zombie/ slasher/…

After ‘Skyline’ and ‘Battle: LA’, does the world really need another high- concept, low-rent, alien-invasion movie? Russian-US co-production ‘The Darkest Hour’