Alien (1979)
A benchmark science fiction film, Alien is a simple premise but given profound and complex treatment. It’s also one of the scariest horror films of it (or any) era, and though its Oscar-winning visual effects...
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s, but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the...
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
In case you want perspective, I had read Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “The Hobbit” as a young teenager, and I consider them among my favorite stories of any medium –...
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
A Life Less Ordinary marks the third straight collaboration between director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge, and budding superstar Ewan McGregor, following on the heels of their critically acclaimed offbeat films, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave. It would...
Big Night (1996)
There’s been quite a few good films revolving around the preparation and consumption of food, and as fine as those other films are, Big Night deserves a place right along with them. It isn’t the food...
Bless the Child (2000)
This stench-fest should definitely have been rated P.U. for stinking up the most theaters around the country. The only consolation to seeing this movie is that you may not have to pay for parking...
Time Bandits (1981)
A young boy (Warnock) jumps into a time hole with six dwarves who have stolen the Supreme Being’s (Richardson, Rollerball) map for time travel locations. They then proceed to go from age to age, including meeting...
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Based on the Russell Banks novel, who also wrote the book that the film Affliction is based on, this is the story of a small Canadian town that virtually dies when every school-age child in...
The Fifth Element (1997)
A 23rd Century New York cabbie (Willis) has an unexpected passenger in the form of Leeloo (Jovovich), a woman who is the “supreme being” sent to save the universe from death first needing the four...