Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
The third entry in the Bill & Ted franchise had started and stopped for decades, partially because studios thought a reboot with new teenage slackers from San Dimas high school would be better than a...
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
James Cameron returns back to the franchise he created by producing and co-writing the original story upon which Terminator: Dark Fate is based. Although technically the sixth feature film in the franchise, this entry...
I Am Mother (2019)
I Am Mother is a thoughtful but taut science-fiction thriller from director Grant Sputore, who, along with screenwriter Michael Lloyd Green, concocted this futuristic tale with a more modest budget in mind, given that...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Arnold famously said, in one of his few bits of dialogue from 1984’s The Terminator, “I’ll be back”. Seven years later, his words would prove true, as the sequel to the hit low-budget flick, which...
RoboCop (1987)
A fantastic science fiction film, subversively posing as a cheesy b-movie, RoboCop is one of the smartest, funniest, and gutsiest movies of its era. Filled to the brim with cheeky social commentary, this is one...
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
It’s a curious thing to observe James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay to Alita: Battle Angel, hand over the keys to such an expensive and expansive universe of characters, concepts, and ingenuity to a...
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...
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
One might surmise that writer-director Joss Whedon (Much Ado About Nothing, Serenity) might be engaging in a bit of damage control that Avengers: Age of Ultron might be a bit of a let-down as far as entries...
Ex Machina (2015)
Esteemed screenwriter Alex Garland (Dredd, Sunshine) writes and directs (his first) this fascinating science fiction drama, which plays like a futuristic chamber piece about reality, fantasy, truth, manipulation, deception, humanity and lack thereof. To avoid...
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Like most superhero projects that are put up on the big screen, Disney’s Big Hero 6 has its origins from the world of comic books, though this take is very loosely adapted from its inception in...