White Squall (1996)
White Squall is based on a true story of a ship school set in 1960 led by Captain Christopher “Skipper” Sheldon (Bridges, The Fabulous Baker Boys) who, along with his wife (Goodall, Schindler’s List), leads a group...
Category: Adventure
Starman (1984)
In the late 1970s, Columbia Pictures had a multipicture development deal with actor/producer Michael Douglas. In 1980, Douglas bought the script to a sci-fo concept called Starman from Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon and...
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I know everyone knows the story, but for the purists I will continue. Dorothy (Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis) runs away from her home on the farm, due to dissatisfaction with her life, desiring to...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick determined to take science fiction seriously and away from laser-blasting bug-eyed monsters. He imagined what life might be like when people could travel at the speed of light. Done in Cinerama screens....
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The legendary Baron Munchausen (Neville, Little Women), fabled to tell wild and fanciful stories, in the late 18th Century finds himself at the end of his life, just as the Age of Reason begins. The...
Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park‘s origin starts with author Michael Crichton in 1981. While Crichton attended a museum dinosaur exhibit. he observed a young child calling out species of dinosaurs during a slideshow presentation. Realizing their universal...
Star Trek Generations (1994)
Kirk, Scotty, and Chekhov, now retired from service, come out to celebrate the christening of the Enterprise-B. While on board the ship answering reporters’ questions, a distress signal comes in, and they are the...
The Edge (1997)
A billionaire (Hopkins, Nixon) flies his supermodel wife (Macpherson, Batman & Robin) up to Alaska for a fashion shoot. While there the billionaire’s plane crashes in the middle of the deserted wilderness, leaving only the billionaire and the...
Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991)
Originally released in Hong Kong, the sound and titles have been redone for US release of this better-than-average Jackie Chan (Police Story 2, Dragons Forever) actioner. Here, Jackie is an agent who must seek out...