During the last years we have been witnesses of incredible Sci-Fi movies, masterpieces created with always new techniques and special effects that more than give birth to amazing worlds and breathtaking experiences. What is not to be forgotten though is that those works of art could never be possible if they hadn’t a very solid…
My first entry in this column was the Spielberg film A.I., a movie I utterly despised as a nine-year old child but grew to admire and ultimately like following recent subsequent viewings. The year following A.I. Spielberg unleashed the Tom Cruise sci-fi actioner Minority Report, a movie that a mild-mannered ten year-old kid walked into…
Director Paul Verhoeven had quite an eccentric filmography after breaking out with American audiences in the late 1980’s, perhaps more so than any other working at the time. Following his success with the classic satirical science fiction actioner Robocop in 1987, the Dutch born filmmaker went on to direct Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1990 blockbuster…
It is safe to say that the remake of Total Recall (2012) did little to tarnish the standards of the original Schwarzenegger sci-fi classic. While it presents a fresh take of a more contemporary production without the necessity of including Mars, the generated plot lacked depth that was brilliantly captured in the original flick. Granted…
