The Matrix
The Wachowski Sisters’ genre bending thriller plays more levels of 3-D chess than perhaps Spock himself could have handled. The directors tapped into some mind-meld with moviegoers as well; The Matrix...
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Lance Guest plays a teen obsessed with an arcade game named “Starfighter” that turns out to be an intergalactic training vehicle. Thanks to his high scores, he’s whisked away by avuncular alien Robert...
View ArticleThe Terminator
James Cameron’s triumphant updating of the well-made, low-budget sci-fi thrillers that flourished in the fifties was a box office smash in 1984. Cameron’s whip-smart direction hits all the satirical...
View ArticleRunning Scared
No, this isn’t the (not really very famous either) Billy Crystal comedy from 1986, but the very underrated and virtually unknown hyper-real 2006 thriller from director Wayne Kramer set in New Jersey...
View ArticlePossession
Isabelle Adjani’s award-winning performance anchors this most unusual and little-seen marital nightmare from Polish director Andrzej Zulawksi, which won plaudits in Europe in its 123 minute version but...
View ArticleLove Exposure
Ok, we’d never heard of this one either. But controversial Japanese director/artist/poet Sion Sono has quite a following on the festival circuit for themes including love, family, lust, religion and...
View ArticleInnerspace
“What if Dean Martin got shrunken down and put inside Jerry Lewis?” That was writer Jeffrey Boam’s clever take on his comedy-fantasy rewrite of a straight spy-fi script conceived by producers who had...
View ArticleGremlins 2
TFH Guru Joe Dante’s off the wall sequel to his 1984 smash (which he often refers to as “a medley of my hit”) moves its Looney Tunes action from the small backlot town of the original to The Big Apple,...
View ArticleEnemy Mine
Wolfgang Petersen’s 1985 science fiction film was initially given a cool reception by critics and crowds alike but found a perennial home on cable thereby cementing its place in the minds of a...
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