*****SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Something of a box-office dud in its original release, “Enemy Mine” was a movie I didn’t catch theatrically in my younger days. I remember being intrigued by the TV trailers for this US-UK-German coproduction, but it was in and out of theaters before I could catch it. I would later see it, via…
Month: January 2023
Still feeling “Gravity” (2013), ten years later…
*****SPACE SHUTTLE-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!***** In 620 or so columns, I was surprised to realize that I’d not yet written about director/cowriter Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity”, a movie that hits its decade mark this year. I remember going to see “Gravity” twice in theaters, because it was such a cinematic experience. Almost like a 1990s IMAX movie…
HBO’s “The Last of Us” treads upon very familiar terrain…
*****SPOILER INFECTION RISK!***** If you’ve never seen any of the zombie apocalypse scenarios that have arisen since 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead,” or TV’s more recent “The Walking Dead” (based on Robert Kirkman’s graphic novels), then HBO’s new (and well-crafted) “The Last of Us” will be one helluva surprise. However, if you’ve seen as…
A family’s story lies at the heart of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022)…
*****MULTIVERSAL SPOILERS!!***** It took me a while to finally see “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (2022), an epic sci-fi/drama/comedy/adventure movie written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and coproduced by the Russo Brothers (Anthony & Joseph), the duo behind “Captain America: Civil War” (one of my favorite Marvel movies). From trailers, all I…
“Star Trek: Prodigy” is the franchise’s most unexpected surprise…
*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** Created by Kevin and Alex Hageman and overseen by an Alex Kurtzman-led team of producers, the Paramount+/Nickelodeon coproduction Star Trek: Prodigy (PRO) is a new animated Star Trek series consciously geared towards younger audiences, after the debut of the more adult (and arguably less mature) Star Trek: Lower Decks. Having recently finished 20…
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is an electrifying improvement…
*****INCIDENTAL SPOILERS***** Once again, I apologize for another deviation from sci-fi/fantasy/horror in this column, but “Glass Onion: a Knives Out Mystery” (2022) is simply too good to ignore. This new Benoit Blanc mystery does contain a sci-fi element at its core, by skewering a thinly-veiled Elon Musk-like billionaire (Edward Norton) and his ‘discovery’ of a…