FUTURE TENSE AND PAST IMPERFECT If you thought the first movie was a headache, grab some aspirin and sit down. This “sequel” (a word Hollywood uses to describe “give us…
HILL VALLEY OR HILL NO? If you went to the movie theater in 1985 like I did, you were likely to see a crowd of teenagers wearing neon vests and…
A Chaotic Quest to Save the Future: Verbinski’s Wild Return Director Gore Verbinski, the man who gave us those pirate movies and that creepy girl in the well, is back…
In a near‑future where vampires are the dominant species, humans are farmed for blood and those deprived of it mutate into feral “subsiders.” Edward, (Ethan Hawke) a vampire scientist who…
Law and Disorder in the Mega-Slums In a world where the air is probably 90% exhaust and people live in “Mega-Blocks” that look like filing cabinets for the poor, comes…
He’s the Judge, the Jury, and the Executioner of my patience—Sylvester Stallone puts on a gold codpiece to prove that in the future, the only thing louder than the explosions…
If you’re looking for a reason to keep your kids out of those fancy private schools, look no further than Masterminds. It’s a story about a bunch of rich brats…
Big City Blues and Blue Shirts: A Digital Headache In an era where the local cinema is being choked to death by capes, spandex, and sequels nobody asked for, comes…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the bunker, Greenland: Migration arrives to remind us that life after the apocalypse is basically just one long, miserable…
In an era where the world seems to be ending every other Tuesday, director Ric Roman Waugh brings us Greenland, a disaster thriller that trades the usual laser-beams-and-superheroes nonsense for…
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