Category: Adventure

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Science Fiction

Explorers (1985)

Another Spielberg-ian family film from director Joe Dante, although unlike his previous film, Gremlins, it isn’t produced by Steven Spielberg’s production house, despite it being obviously influenced in its wide-eyed sense of discovery, optimism, and...

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1980s / Adventure / Family / Thriller

Cloak & Dagger (1984)

Cloak & Dagger is a guilty pleasure film for many people who were children in the 1980s, and like most children’s films to come out around the same period, it has a cheesy charm, but...

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2010s / Action / Adventure / Horror / Thriller

The Meg (2018)

Jon Turteltaub (Last Vegas, National Treasure: Book of Secrets) directs this big action and mild horror flick, seemingly pulled out of the 1990s adolescent-minded blockbuster cycle, about a megalodon, a massive 75-foot shark long thought...

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2010s / Adventure / Drama / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller

Annihilation (2018)

Written and directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina), who very loosely adapts the acclaimed Jeff VanderMeer ‘Southern Reach trilogy’ novel of the same name, Annihilation continues the sophomore auteur’s string of challenging genre films that provoke...

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1980s / Adventure / Fantasy

Clash of the Titans (1981)

One of my childhood favorites, so take this into consideration as you witness what might be an overly nostalgic review of Clash of the Titans.  Although it is better known today as the last film...

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2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction / Superhero / Thriller

Black Panther (2018)

Directed and co-written by Ryan Coogler, who has already been on a roll with noteworthy films like Fruitvale Station and Creed, takes on the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Black Panther, one of the better entries to date. Working well as a...