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…
Written & Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez and Haley Joel Osment. R, 102 minutes. Tusk comes to theaters with some heavy baggage to overcome. As a body-horror film, it is released in a time where the public has been bludgeoned by the likes of Teeth and The Human Centipede to…
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 Francis Lawrence. Written by Danny Strong and Peter Craig. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks, Natalie Dormer, Mahershala Ali, Jena Malone and Donald Sutherland. PG-13, 123 minutes. Near the end of the penultimate chapter of The Hunger…
Directed by Christopher Nolan. Written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, David Gyasi, Wes Bentley, Topher Grace, Casey Affleck and Michael Caine. PG-13, 169 minutes. While watching Interstellar, something a friend of mine once said popped up in my head. He said, “Christopher Nolan movies are…
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…
Written for the Screen & Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Joe Pantoliano and Jon Favreau. Theatrical Release: 104 minutes. Director’s Cut: 133 minutes. Upon release, Daredevil was considered among the lower tier of film adaptations for Marvel comic book characters. Its stock hasn’t risen all…
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…
Directed by Gareth Edwards. Written by Max Borenstein. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, David Stathairn, Juliette Binoche and Bryan Cranston. PG-13, 116 minutes. The new Godzilla film is, fittingly, obsessed with the concept of size. From the opening frame (not counting the main title sequence), the audience is instantly positioned as…
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…
