Every once in a while, a movie comes along that throws everything at the wall—monsters, action, government conspiracies, literary references, and just enough pseudo-science to make you question if the writers failed a high school physics class on purpose. The Gorge is one of those films, a cinematic fever dream that blends Aliens-esque military horror, Resident Evil-style bio-zombies, and a dash of The Thing-level paranoia into a sci-fi thrill ride.…
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I just watched a couple of movies that could easily be prequels for The Terminator or Blade Runner. The both feature a domestic android that ends up going on a killing spree. One looks like it was cut from Terminator 3 while the other looks like a suburban version of Wild Robot.…
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I just watched this movie for the first time. It was quite good. It stars Tim Robbins, which is why I’ve avoided it thus far — because he ruins every movie he’s in. Finally decided to watch it after reading the Rita Hayworth novella.…
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Remember that cartoon? It might have been a Far Side. It showed a couple of astronauts on the Moon gazing back at the Earth to see nuclear explosions with a caption like, “Now what?”. That’s basically the pitch for this movie.…
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The Apple (formerly iTunes) Store has a nice feature where certain titles are bundled together at a significant savings. For example you have a choice of either buying one of the Robocop movies for $14.99 or you can get all three for $14.99.…
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Seriously, how did I not know this movie existed? Last night I was looking at HBO’s list of what’s leaving this month and spotted “Countdown”, directed by Robert Altman, and starring Robert Duval and James Caan. So serious star power, a new director that would go on to make movies I love like M*A*S*H, and a topic that I find fascinating.…
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The Suicide Squad is actually a great movie. Once again James Gunn shows he’s not afraid to have a colorful movie, even in the dark and drab DCEU. I was amazed by the cast. The plot actually had some twists along the way.…
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Rather nice documentary on Amazon Prime about (East) German Daniel Rintz and his motorcycle trip from Berlin to Australia. Like Motorcycle Diaries, Jupiter Travels, and Long Way Round, the story focuses on the interactions with the people along the journey and the hardships or travel.
Recently I picked up the 1992 movie for $4.99 starring Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, and Sylvester Stallone named after a 1981 song by The Police, Demolition Man. There’s no way this 1993 rated R film could/would get made today. It is a very strange film mixing violence, action, satire, and comedy.…
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With the new King Kong vs Godzilla movie coming out in a few months, I thought I would put together a list of King Kong movies to re-watch in preparation. I’ve left off the cartoon and other TV appearances. Let me know if I’ve missed any theatrical outings.
When I first saw the trailer for Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, I was pretty sure I was in for yet another Hollywood art film set in space. I’m fine with that as long as we don’t call it science fiction.…
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One of my most most memorable film-going experiences was seeing
Batman (1989) in a theater with actual bats flying around during the movie. Back in college, the choices for movie theaters were rather limited. On campus we had Rudder theater where you could see cult films like
Rocky Horror and sneak previews of movies like
Action Jackson.…
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Marking the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, CNN Films put together a 92 minute documentary from video shot on those days in July 1969. Some of the footage has of course been seen before but here was an opportunity to see a full clip in context.…
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