******SILOS OF SPOILERS!****** Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”) first came onto my radar with a rural Romeo & Juliet vampire film. No, not the “Twilight” movies; the good one, “Near Dark,” from 1987. Since then, her reputation has grown tremendously, with action films such as “Point Break” (1991), before her Best Director Oscar…
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“I.S.S.” (2023) presents a darker, more sobering kind of ‘star wars’…
*****SPACE STATION-SIZED SPOILERS!***** Shot on a shoestring budget of $13.8 million (the catering budget of an average Marvel movie these days), 2023’s “I.S.S.” was released with nary a notice in the US back in January, making very little in its domestic run, despite a dark and intriguing trailer that made me curious enough to plunk…