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...
Category: Thriller
Summer of 84 (2018)
Summer of 84 is the collective directorial team known as RKSS’s follow-up to another cult film tapping into the vibe of the 1980s, the zany post-apocalyptic comedy called Turbo Kid. This time out, it’s more of...
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...
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...
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Getting beyond the terrible title, obviously an homage to the James Bond title of The Spy Who Loved Me, The Spy Who Dumped Me offers some choice laughs from its capable comedic actors front and center,...
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...
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Equalizer 2 brings back Denzel Washington (Fences), along with director Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven) and screenwriter Richard Wenk (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back), continuing the further adventures of one man’s quest 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...
Superman III (1983)
Superman III is the first in the series without any trace of the guiding hands of director Richard Donner and acclaimed writer Mario Puzo, leaving the franchise completely in the hands of Superman II‘s clean-up director, Richard...
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Ethan Hunt (Cruise, American Made) and the rest of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) get the blame for losing a target by putting the well-being of their own force over that of millions, perhaps billions,...