Even coming off the huge trifecta of back-to-back hits Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Ocean’s Eleven, Steven Soderbergh seemed an unlikely choice to helm a big science fiction film in 2002. The director had spent most of his earlier career making small, arty dramas, and frankly has never come across as the kind of guy who’d… Read More There Are No Answers, Only Choices | Solaris (2002)
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I come to the 2007 Spanish horror thriller [REC] very late, long after having seen the American remake, called Quarantine, beforehand. The fact that Quarantine received middling reviews and was quickly forgotten, while [REC] remains well-regarded and spawned a franchise of sequels, is an interesting case study of how even a close copy can fail… Read More Tape Every Fucking Thing | [REC] (2007) Blu-ray
As I sit here after watching A Quiet Place, struggling to write an introductory paragraph that will find an angle into the film, it strikes me as rather ironic, or perhaps just fitting, that a movie with almost no dialogue would leave me with little to say about it. I don’t mean to imply that… Read More Stay Silent, Stay Alive | A Quiet Place (2018) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray
I hadn’t watched Jackie Chan’s “Police Story Trilogy” in so long that I’d forgotten the franchise also had a fourth entry (First Strike), a Michelle Yeoh spinoff (Supercop 2), and at least two movies described as reboots but in which Chan plays unrelated characters who also happen to be police. During most of that time… Read More What We Need Is a Super Cop! | Police Story III (1992) 4K Ultra HD
Despite its notorious last-act scene in which James Bond, legendary secret agent 007, dresses in a clown costume while once again saving the world, 1983’s Octopussy is neither the worst nor certainly not the best movie in the Bond franchise. Honestly, it’s not even the worst of the Roger Moore era. It is, however, perhaps… Read More The Tip of the Tentacle | Octopussy (1983) Blu-ray
Does everything need to be a multiverse now, even James Bond? Given that the Bond movies are not strictly science fiction (a lot of crazy gadgets and the ending of Moonraker excepted, of course), I wouldn’t normally think of the franchise falling into the multiverse trope that has taken over so much of popular culture… Read More It’s Just a Number | No Time to Die (2021) 4K Ultra HD
Despite its sci-fi trappings and high-concept premise, the 2009 drama Moon is primarily an understated character piece about isolation, personal identity, and the dehumanizing oppression of unchecked corporate greed. Unlike most science fiction cinema these days, the film has no action scenes and no suspense-filled set-pieces of note. Mostly, it’s a one-man showcase for character… Read More Where Are We Now? | Moon (2009) Blu-ray
Released way back in the distant past of 1983, Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero concerns a major industrial corporation’s attempt to buy up the land in a rural community in order to strip it of all natural resources, unconcerned with what effects that will have on the environment or local culture. Thankfully, it’s a… Read More A Little Time Is All We Have Left | Local Hero (1983) Criterion Blu-ray
If technically Stanley Kubrick’s second feature film, the director almost entirely disowned his first (1952’s Fear and Desire) and considered Killer’s Kiss to be the start of his filmmaking career. Made when he was just 27-years-old, the noir thriller is clearly a formative work, unpolished and lacking either the intellectual or technical rigor Kubrick would… Read More Kubrick in Progress | Killer’s Kiss (1955) Criterion Collection Blu-ray
