Similarly to how the film’s lead character returns to the same events over and over, the 1995 sci-fi thriller 12 Monkeys represents filmmaker Terry Gilliam circling back on his own career in a few notable ways. Firstly, and most obviously, it’s another time travel story, familiar in theme to (if very different in tone from)… Read More Science Ain’t an Exact Science | 12 Monkeys (1995) 4K Ultra HD
I think I may have gone too far in our Film at 11 podcast this week. I have, on more than a few occasions already, subjected my son Thomas to movies of dubious artistic merit. He’s usually a good sport about that. After watching Michael Bay’s Armageddon, however, the kid looked downright exhausted by the… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 29 | Armageddon (1998)
A couple weeks ago, a local community event space put up a makeshift screen and hosted a viewing of Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi epic The Fifth Element in my neighborhood. Although admittedly not, on a technical level, the best cinematic experience I’ve had in my life, and certainly not up to my usual home theater… Read More A Visual History of The Fifth Element (1997) on Home Video
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