Category: Film Reviews

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Rating Director George Miller, George Ogilvie Screenplay Terry Hayes, George Miller Length 1h 47m Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Tina Turner, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto, Paul Larsson, Angry Anderson, Robert Grubb, George Spartels, Edwin Hodgeman MPAA Rating PG-13 Review Four years after the success of the second film in…

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Rating Director George Miller Screenplay Terry Hayes, George Miller, Brian Hannant Length 1h 36m Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Mike Preston, Max Phipps, Vernon Wells, Kjell Nilsson, Emil Minty, Virginia Hey, William Zappa, Arkie Whiteley MPAA Rating R Review Finding your place after the apocalypse can be a struggle.…

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Rating Director Steven Spielberg Screenplay Steven Spielberg Length 2h 18m Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren Kemmerling MPAA Rating PG Review When speaking of seminal science fiction films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind ranks among the upper echelons of…

Gattaca Rating Director Andrew Niccol Screenplay Andrew Niccol Length 1h 46m Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Loren Dean, Gore Vidal, Xander Berkeley, Jayne Brook, Elias Koteas, Maya Rudolph, Blair Underwood, Ernest Borgnine, Tony Shalhoub, Alan Arkin, Dean Norris, Ken Marino, Cynthia Martells, Gabrielle Reece MPAA Rating PG-13 Review Genetic manipulation has been a…

Beetlejuice Rating Director Tim Burton Screenplay Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren Length 1h 32m Starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, Roubert Goulet, Dick Cavett, Glenn Shadix, Annie McEnroe, Maree Cheatham, Tony Cox, Susan Kellermann, Adelle Lutz, Jack Angel MPAA Rating PG Review With the rare…

The Fifth Element Rating Director Luc Besson Screenplay Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Length 2h 06m Starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, Brion James, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister Jr. MPAA Rating PG-13 Review The 1990s was a terrific decade for science fiction. The Fifth Element was among those films,…

Return of the Jedi Rating Director Richard Marquand Screenplay Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas Length 2h 11m Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Sebastaian Shaw, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker MPAA Rating PG Review A return to the material that…

The Empire Strikes Back Rating Director Irvin Kershner Screenplay Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas Length 2h 04m Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch, James Earl Jones (uncredited) MPAA Rating PG Review Three years after…

Star Wars Rating Director George Lucas Screenplay George Lucas Length 2h 01m Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Phil Brown, Shelagh Fraser, James Earl Jones (uncredited) MPAA Rating PG Review Ascetic monks and hermits. These are probably the only two types of…

American Fiction Rating Director Cord Jefferson Screenplay Cord Jefferson Length 1h 57m Starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Okieriete Onaodowan MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review There is no end of themes…

Strange Way of Life (Short Film) Rating Director Pedro Almodóvar Screenplay Pedro Almodóvar Length 31m Starring Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, Pedro Casablanc, Manu Ríos, George Steane, José Condessa, Jason Fernández, Sara Sálamo, Oihana Cueto, Daniela Medina MPAA Rating R Review Foreign cinema often gave queer topics and queer stories more nuanced representation than American cinema.…

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Rating Director Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson Screenplay Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham Length 2h 20m Starring Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Jake Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Daniel Kaluuya, Karan Soni, Shea Whigham, Greta Lee, Mahershala Ali, Amandla Stenberg,…

Trolls Band Together Rating Director Walt Dohrn Screenplay Elizabeth Tippet, Kim Caramele, Lloyd Taylor Length 1h 31m Starring Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Kenan Thompson, Walt Dohrn, Anderson .Paak, Ron Funches, Kunal Nayyar, David Fynn, Kevin Michael Richardson, Eric Andre, Daveed Diggs, Kid Cudi, Troye Sivan, Camila Cabello, Zosia Mamet, Amy Schumer, Andrew Rannells, Christopher Mintz-Plasse,…

Godzilla Minus One Rating Director Takashi Yamakazi Screenplay Takashi Yamakazi Length 2h 04m Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Sae Nagatani, Mio Tanaka, Yuya Endo MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review One year shy of its 70th anniversary, Godzilla makes a return to the…

2023 Oscar-Nominated Shorts These short films are available in a program from Shorts.TV, releasing theatrically. Rating Director Tal Kantor (Letter to a Pig); Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess (Ninety-Five Senses); Yegane Moghaddam (Our Uniform); Stéphanie Clément (Pachyderme); Dave Mullins (War Is Over); Misan Harriman (After); Vincent René-Lortie (Invincible); Lasse Lyskjær Noer (Knight of Fortune); Nazrin Choudhury…