Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is an efficiency expert for Federal Express. He travels all over the world to analyze shipping and sorting operations at various terminals for the company. Back home in Memphis, he has a girlfriend, Kelly (Helen Hunt), whom he sees in between jaunts from one end ofContinue Reading
Twenty years ago, a large UFO entered Earth’s atmosphere and positioned itself over Johannesburg, South Africa. All over the world, tension mounted as people waited for whoever or whatever was inside to come out. They never did. So, after waiting for three months, a team of soldiers was sent toContinue Reading
If you’ve seen the 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, you may think that the recent ad campaign for Anvil! The Story of Anvil is an attempt to market a similar movie. Despite the fact that there are many similarities between the two films, Anvil is a real band andContinue Reading
Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was one of professional wrestling’s biggest superstars in the 1980s, performing in huge arenas, featured in video games, and even turned into an action figure. Now, however, he works part-time at a grocery store during the week and wrestles in half-empty New Jersey highContinue Reading
Watchmen takes place in an alternate 1985. In this universe, President Nixon has been re-elected beyond the two terms he served in our universe. Also, the Vietnam War was won by the United States. Russia and the United States teeter on the brink of nuclear war. And superheroes have beenContinue Reading
When Halloween was released in 1978, there was no such thing as the modern “slasher movie.” Some may argue that 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre deserves some credit but it was undoubtedly Halloween that jump started the genre into overdrive. And while it may seem tame today when compared against theContinue 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