Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security...
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Vice (2018)
Written and directed by Adam McKay, who impressed in his last effort from 2015, The Big Short, Vice is specifically a biopic of sorts about former Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush,...
Dreamscape (1984)
Long before people were interacting in a virtual reality slumber in films like The Cell and The Matrix, there was this modestly overlooked sci-fi teaser which delved into the possibilities of one person interacting with another in...
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Taken in December of 1970, the photograph of the meeting between President Richard Nixon and superstar entertainer Elvis Presley is the most requested among all photographs in the National Archives. Not much is known...
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Tim Burton (Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands) takes on comic science fiction in Mars Attacks!, a big-screen narrative version of the cult Topps trading card series from the early 1960s, in which Martian in flying saucers are...
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is the second film in the series based on the Hasbro toy-line mostly popularized in the 1980s, coming after the weak first entry, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Though it is technically a...
Dave (1993)
Kevin Kline (Consenting Adults, Silverado) plays a dual role, one as the President of the United States, Bill Mitchell, and one as temp agency coordinator and Presidential look-alike, Dave Kovic. Dave is sought after and...
The American President (1995)
As played by Michael Douglas, a liberal and widowed people-president looks to be re-elected easily. That is until he takes a fancy to an environmental lobbyist (Bening). dating her openly during the race, causing...
First Daughter (2004)
Forest Whitaker returns with yet another film aimed at female audiences, this time going for a younger crowd with First Daughter, the latest in a series of seemingly never-ending tales about the repression of self-identity that...