10,000 BC (2008)

As 10,000 B.C. begins, a narrator (Omar Sharif) sets up the storyline. A primitive hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl are faced with starvation. The mammoths they hunt for food are beginning to become scarce. The chief of the tribe ventures off into the world to find a solution to theirContinue Reading

Greenland (2020)

John Garrity (Gerard Butler) is an Atlanta-based architect who has recently moved back in with his estranged wife, Allison (Morena Baccarin) and son, Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd.)  Things are awkward between John and Allison but they’re working at it. Putting on a brave face for their friends, they invite themContinue Reading

San Andreas (2015)

You have to hand it to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. He’s extremely charismatic, not a bad actor, and possesses a disarming smile. And no matter what implausible action movie he appears in, I have a hard time finding fault with him. San Andreas, yet another of Mr. Johnson’s hard-to-believe butContinue Reading

White Tiger (2012)

After a battle in which he is burned on 90 percent of his body, tank driver Ivan Naydenov (Aleksey Vertkov) makes a miraculous recovery. Stricken with a selective amnesia that robs him of any memory of his previous identity except for his military training and superior tank driving skills, NaydenovContinue Reading

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Today, if a movie needs a fantastic animal or locale visualized, filmmakers usually turn to computer-generated imagery (CGI) to get the job done. As fast as a computer graphics card can render something, it can appear on screen. Before CGI, though, filmmakers had to rely on skilled craftspeople, like theContinue Reading