Directed by Paul Michael Glaser. Written by Steven E. de Souza. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Mick Fleetwood and Jesse Ventura. R, 101 minutes. The basic premise behind The Running Man was nothing new to audiences even when it was released. Those at all familiar with the science fiction genre…
Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen and Tom Noonan. R, 116 minutes. SPOILERS AHEAD… RoboCop 2 uses similar clips of news coverage and satirically charged commercials to position us back in the corporate-run, crime-ridden Detroit of the near future, but from the very start something feels off. The original film masterfully towed…
Directed by Jean Pierre-Jeunet. Written by Joss Whedon. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Michael Wincott, J.E. Freeman, Dan Hedaya and Brad Dourif. R, 109 minutes. Alien: Resurrection shouldn’t exist. While one can debate whether there’s an inherent need for any sequel, this fourth go-round at the Alien film series adds absolutely nothing of…
Directed by Bryan Singer. Written by Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris. Starring Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Parker Posey, Sam Huntington, Eva Marie Saint and Frank Langella. PG-13, 154 minutes. *Spoilers ahead. Before I get around to Alien: Resurrection… Looking back on my review of Man of Steel, I realize I made an unfortunate…
Directed by David Fincher. Written by David Giler, Walter Hill & Larry Ferguson. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance and Lance Henriksen. R, 115 minutes (theatrical), 144 minutes (special edition). If you were to judge Alien 3 from its first thirty seconds, no one would begrudge you for getting excited. The 20th Century…
Directed by Ang Lee. Screenplay by John Turman, Michael France and James Schamus. Starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliot and Josh Lucas. PG-13, 138 minutes. Despite stealing the show in the mega-popular Avengers movie, The Incredible Hulk hasn’t had that much success as a standalone character on the big screen. General wisdom…
Directed by Tim Burton. Written By Sam Hamm & Warren Skaaren. Starring Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Jack Palance, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams and Michael Gough. PG-13, 126 minutes. SPOILERS AHEAD… The Warner Bros. logo dissolves against the night sky as we pan down into and navigate through what seems to…
Directed by Robert Wise. Written By Harold Livingston. Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Stephen Collins and Persis Khambata. PG, 136 minutes (the Director’s Cut). The beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is perhaps one of the more surprising moves made by a space adventure…
Written & Directed by David Lynch. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jack Fisk, Judith Anna Roberts, Jeanne Bates and Laurel Near. 1977, Unrated, 89 minutes. The film begins with ominous ambient noise, and it doesn’t let up for almost ninety minutes. The first thing we see is space. A man with his hair strangely coiffed…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8ygTdtRfw Blood is coming, bleh. –Not the Editor (?) 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the acclaimed horror film by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Invaders of Mars, Spontaneous Combustion). The story is simple: five teenagers on a weekend getaway run out of gas on the road. They find an old, abandoned house…
What: An undersea mining operation comes across the wreckage of an old, Soviet mining vessel. When they come back from investigating, the crew unwittingly brings aboard a creature that hunts them down one by one. Who: Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as the head of the mining operation. He’s awesome, as always. Other familiar faces from popular 80s…
Alien (1979) from 20th Century Fox What: After receiving a distress signal in the far-reaches of space, commercial miners are dispatched to investigate. When one of the crew is infected by a parasite, they unwittingly bring aboard the ship a mysterious being that hunts them down one by one. Who: Then relative newcomer Ridley Scott directs one…
