Jackie (2016)
Jackie is a speculative historical drama that seeks to give us a peek into the hypothetical goings on of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the week following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on...
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...
Contact (1997)
In 1975, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola developed a project for CTW Productions, a subsidiary of the Children’s Television Workshop, for a 3-to-5-hour television event written, directed, and produced by Coppola to air on...
Alien (1979)
A benchmark science fiction film, Alien is a simple premise but given profound and complex treatment. It’s also one of the scariest horror films of it (or any) era, and though its Oscar-winning visual effects...
Immortals (2011)
Director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, The Cell) delivers his usual highly-stylized, incoherent visual masturbation all over this somewhat gory sword-and-sandal epic, cranking up the computer-generated display at the expense of such things as interesting plot,...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Almost a relic worthy of putting into a museum himself, Indiana Jones (Ford, Firewall) comes back after nearly 20 years to the big screen in this just-for-fun adventure to please the fans and, of course, score...
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
1984 is based on the classic science fiction novel by George Orwell, which offered a bleak vision of a future dystopia where one’s thoughts and actions were controlled by a totalitarian government ruled by...
Hellboy (2004)
Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” was a favorite comic of mine for a short while, back when it first appeared in Dark Horse comics in the pages of John Byrne’s “Next Men”, back in the early...
Dead Man (1995)
Jim Jarmusch’s films are a definite acquired taste, speaking volumes to a small, but very loyal following of fans, while seeming too surreal and quirky to most everyone else. My personal feeling towards his...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
I have not read any of Harry Potter’s adventures, so take the review for what it’s worth, as I will not be comparing the film and how faithful it may or may not be...