M. Night Shyamalan is responsible for two of my favorite movies: The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Both of those films have endings that really hit you like a ton of bricks. (That is, as long as some schmuck doesn’t tell you what happens before you see them.) Signs doesn’t haveContinue Reading
The second episode in George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise furthers the tale of Anakin Skywalker’s journey towards the Dark Side of the Force. Picking up ten years after Episode I – The Phantom Menace, we find that the former Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman) is now a Senator. An assassination attemptContinue Reading
In the middle of a summer night, a large meteor slams into the Arizona desert. When Dr. Ira Kane (David Duchovny) and Dr. Harold Block (Orlando Jones) from the local community college investigate the crash site, they find the meteor is oozing a substance that contains one-celled organisms. After beingContinue Reading
In the year 2065, Dr. Aki Ross (Ming-Na) and her colleague Dr. Sid (Donald Sutherland) believe that all living things contain a spirit that might possibly be used to repel aliens that have taken over the Earth. In their quest to find the specific spirits that will have the desiredContinue Reading
After what looks like a UFO lands in small field in Iowa, strange things begin to happen in a nearby town. A group from a secret government agency, led by Andrew Nivens (Donald Sutherland), moves in to investigate the scene. Nivens’ son, Sam (Eric Thal), who is also in theContinue Reading
Movies that deal with computers or computer related subjects usually portray the machines doing things that they simply cannot do, even if the film is supposed to take place in the present day. eXistenZ, which deals with virtual reality games, takes place sometime in the future. The computers are doingContinue Reading
The time has finally arrived. The first all-new Star Wars movie in sixteen years has hit theaters with a media and merchandising blitz the likes of which has never been seen before. Is it possible for ANY movie, much less an entry in the highly-acclaimed Star Wars series, to liveContinue Reading