Perhaps I am dating myself, but one of my favorite movies when I was younger was 1983’s WarGames. In fact, I even read the novelization that came out before the movie was released because I was so excited to find out what was going to happen in the film. ItContinue Reading
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum,” says Nada (Roddy Piper), after discovering that the Earth has come under the control of aliens in John Carpenter’s They Live, which is at once a science fiction tale, a comedy, and a commentaryContinue Reading
According to the opening titles of Awake, 30,000 out of the 21,000,000 people who go under general anesthesia on the operating table every year do not fall asleep and are actually able to feel what is happening to them. This happens to one of the main characters in Awake andContinue Reading
Astronauts Charles Brubaker (James Brolin), John Walker (O. J. Simpson), and Peter Willis (Sam Waterston) are sitting on the launch pad, poised to become the first men to travel to Mars, when they’re pulled from their command module and taken to a remote location in the desert. When they areContinue Reading
“Based on a true story” is a term that, in film-making, usually means that the core of a movie is based on fact but some dramatic license has been taken to make the story “more interesting” to a mainstream audience. Such is the case with Fire in the Sky, a movieContinue Reading
The year is 1900 and a magician is enchanting Vienna. His name is Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and his tricks are like those of no other illusionist before him. His act attracts the attention of Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewel), who attends a performance with his fiancee, Sophie (Jessica Biel). LeopoldContinue Reading
White Noise was not a film that begged for a sequel. Unless, of course, that sequel was going to explain what the hell happened in the first film. (I’m still scratching my head over what it was supposed to be about.) Nevertheless, White Noise 2: The Light has been released and,Continue Reading