Released in 1987, Predator is an interesting blend of action, science-fiction and Reagan-era machismo. Featuring then box-office king Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by John McTiernan, who would later direct the Die Hard films, Predator is a relatively solid film with only few glaring problems that keep it from being aContinue Reading
After the disappointment of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, I tried not to be too excited about The Forgotten, which I first learned about — strangely enough — from a trailer attached to The Village. It looked creepy and sufficiently eerie, but so did The Village trailer — which, soContinue Reading
The role that propelled Vin Diesel into the limelight was that of Richard Riddick, a psychotic killer who can see in the dark, in the 1999 sleeper hit, Pitch Black. That film featured a somewhat interesting plot gimmick and a fair amount of action to tell its tale of theContinue Reading
The man who terrorized New York City in Independence Day and Godzilla is back with a new threat: the weather. When freak events begin occurring all over the world, weather forecasters are stumped. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is a paleo-climatologist and his researchContinue Reading
What if it was possible to selectively erase memories from your mind? In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latest work by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, a company named Lacuna, Inc. has developed a process that will do just that. Joel (Jim Carrey) has discovered that his impulsive girlfriend ClementineContinue Reading
When it was announced that a sequel to the classic Terminator 2 was going to be made, my hopes were relatively high. But as the details were revealed, my enthusiasm began to wane. First, James Cameron, director of the first two Terminator films was not going to direct the thirdContinue Reading
1999’s The Matrix wasn’t just a movie, it was a phenomenon. Spawning numerous parodies, take-offs, imitators and conceptual theories, it was one of the most influential films of the 20th Century. That’s not an exaggeration; it’s the truth. One thing that it took a while to spawn was a sequel.Continue Reading