There was a meme a while back where this befuddled guy is saying, “Star Wars? Jurassic Park? Terminator? Mad Max? What year is this?” You may be saying that as well, as you’re taking your kids (or grandkids) to movies you saw when you were their age.
When we first met Max Rockatansky (Mad Max, 1979) he was a police officer in an Australia that was not quite dystopian but certainly just a couple of power outages away. We next saw him sometime later, Somewhere in the Outback (Mad Max 2, bka The Roa
It doesn’t mean we’re bad, really; maybe it’s hard-wired into our brains. We’ve traded lions in coliseums for NASCAR, pillories for TMZ, paying to watch people in asylums for reality (sorry, “non-scripted”) TV. But the core principle is the same: we’
We give personal names to our boats, our cars, we talk to the snack machine when it doesn't dispense our selection. We talk to our smartphones and they talk back—but it’s only programmed responses--
For now…
The Turing Test says that if a machine exhib
Read more…It’s helpful to remember two things going into Interstellar. The first is that Christopher Nolan is known for directing two kinds of movies: Movies with Batman and Movies Without Batman. The latter movies (Identity, Memento, The Prestige, Inception)
This is a new column to feature mostly movies that were missed when they were “new” but also classics, oddities, whatever is of “historical interest” or just plain “interesting.” We begin with her.
So you’re texting someone for, let’s say an hour, an
It seems, translated from the French, “Luc Besson,” in English, is “Michael Bey.” Both directors are renowned for their visual style, slick editing, and the way they can attract A-list actors to their projects. Both are also noted for efforts that fa
I was not a big fan of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011); despite some (then) cutting-edge CGI and a great cast, the story had too many plot holes and lapses in logic, mostly for the sake of making a cool-looking movie, to overlook. But unlike ot
If you’ve seen the theater trailers for Edge of Tomorrow you might have said, Groundhog Day and Source Code meets Starship Troopers, maybe a little Looker, Oblivion and War of the Worlds, and you’d be partially right. And if you saw the TV spot with
It always amuses me when fan/superfans of comics decry the “changes” made when translating comics to the screen. You’d think they remade The Ten Commandments and when Moses comes down from the mountain, instead of carrying stone tablets he’s carrying
In 1953, nuclear testing unleashed a prehistoric monster to wreak havoc on the modern world—in movie theatres, anyway. That monster was called The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Fog Horn,” about a dinosaur that
Back in the day, the difference between DCU (that’s “DC Universe”—Superman, Barman, Wonder Woman) superheroes and superheroes in the Marvelverse (those are the ones you see everywhere nowadays) is that in the DCU you vanquished the villain and went b
