Bumblebee (2018)
For the first time in the six films in the franchise thus far, the reins of a Transformers flick has been given to someone whose name is not Michael Bay. In the case of the...
Category: Science Fiction
Venom (2018)
Set in San Francisco, we follow the exploits of scrappy and unscrupulous investigative reporter of some notoriety, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy, The Revenant), played with manic aggressiveness from Tom Hardy. Michelle Williams plays Eddie’s...
Dreamscape (1984)
Long before people were interacting in a virtual reality slumber in films like The Cell and The Matrix, there was this modestly overlooked sci-fi teaser which delved into the possibilities of one person interacting with another in...
The Predator (2018)
The Predator starts off with a spaceship that has crash landed in a forest somewhere in Mexico, resulting in Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook, Logan), a highly skilled sniper from the U.S. Army who is in...
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...
TRON (1982)
In the 1980s, Disney has been in the course of trying to find its footing yet again for the prominence it once held in the world of animation. This included pulling in talent from...
WarGames (1983)
I suppose that the more time goes on, the more dated WarGames becomes, not only because of the archaic technology employed within the movie, but also in the Cold War nuclear politics that were still quite...
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
It shouldn’t have been this bad. Superman portrayer, Christopher Reeve (Rear Window, The Remains of the Day), had a vision to make a statement with the fourth film in the series, offered a return to...
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...
Supergirl (1984)
Supergirl: “…and I must ask you all something — “ Jimmy Olson: “It’s alright, Supergirl. We never saw you.” Lucy Lane: “We never even heard of you.” If only I could say the same. Helen Slater (City...