The Purge: Election Year (2016)
With themes that seem to tap into today’s headlines, The Purge: Election Year seems less like a sci-fi premise with a horror-movie sense of aesthetic, and more like a freaky fun-house mirror of our own society...
2010s / Action / Horror / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published July 10, 2016 · Last modified July 23, 2018
With themes that seem to tap into today’s headlines, The Purge: Election Year seems less like a sci-fi premise with a horror-movie sense of aesthetic, and more like a freaky fun-house mirror of our own society...
2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published October 25, 2000 · Last modified April 23, 2019
FREQUENCY is a sleeper thriller, and one of the better surprises of 2000 that only a small amount of people went to see. This one has the Aurora Borealis phenomenon occurring in the same...
Director Curtis Hanson follows up his brilliant L.A. CONFIDENTIAL with another impressive outing. WONDER BOYS stars Michael Douglas as Grady Tripp, a college professor and one time successful writer with a severe case of writer’s block....
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