“Stargate” is the kind of movie where a soldier can be transported to “the other side of the known universe” in a whirlpool of bizarre special effects, step into a temple on an alien planet, and say, “What a rush!” It is also the kind of movie where the sun god Ra, who ha...
Becka covers the wound with a Band-Aid and tries to go about her day, cooking dinner for her husband Joe (John Diehl,STARGATE) and sitting idly by listening to the man in the 8X10 frame on top of the TV talking to her while Joe leafs through a swimsuit magazine with...
The time machine and levitating path seem cut-and-pasted right out of Stargate, but so far, Hatton is the only outright silly element of the film. That soon changes when Travis leads a pair of idiots back in time to hunt an Allosaurus and we realize that after Ben Kingsley’s salary, ...
The following is a list of the films, or movies, that I’ve scored on this, or on a previous, blog. The score indicates my overall opinion about or assessment of a film, and the scores are therefore not always based on a full written review. I give every film I watch a score out...
(1993) saw him return to the erotic thrillergenre. One of his most commercially successful films of this time was the science-fiction filmStargate(1994). This was followed byDavid Cronenberg’s art filmCrash(1996), in which Spader played one of his strangest and most provocative roles—a ...
Stargate, 1994 (dir. Roland Emmerich) The Bone Collector, 1999 (dir. Phillip Noyce) Fatal Attraction, 1987 (dir. Adrian Lyne) The Piano, 1993 (dir. Jane Campion) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011 (dir. Tomas Alfredson) How The West Was Won, 1962 (dir. John Ford, Henry Hathaway & Geor...
Stargate (1994) Starship Troopers (1997) Stealing Beauty (1996) Stephen King's The Langoliers (1995) (aka: "The Langoliers") Stepmom (1998) Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) Storm of the Century (1999) The Story of Us (1999) The Straight Story (1999) Strange Days (1995) A Strange...
Nocturnal Animals is full of suspense, tense and gripping. It is a phenomenal story within a story movie, in which both stories are fascinating for very different reasons: the first is about Susan/Amy Adams, who lives the high (empty) life in LA, but is deeply unhappy; the second is ab...