Animal World holds enough action and suspense to treat anyone seeking a unique psychological thriller, but a stronger protagonist and clearer character relationships could have helped the emotional appeal of the film.
Read MoreKnowing doesn’t excel in one particular area of the science fiction genre, but its moody atmosphere generates enough mystery to keep it interesting.
Read MoreWatching The Host is like if somebody strapped you to a chair made of sandpaper and rusty nails, and drained all your brain fluids through a needle.
Read MoreThe Iron Giant (1999) is a film that you appreciate more as you grow older…
Read MoreIn Pacific Rim (2013), the Kaiju arise from The Breach, a crevice in the Pacific Ocean, and lay waste to coastal cities like San Francisco and Tokyo. Nobody knows who they are or where they came from or what they want (and neither does the audience by time the credits roll), but everyone realizes that this isn’t pest control—this is extermination…
Read MoreNolan certainly pays homage to space travel productions before him like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but the film explores both the beauty and peril of outer space with an artistry that I have not witnessed before…
Read MoreArrival because it’s a film that explores human response to the unknown. The difference here is that the proverbial “elephant in the room” is the arrival of an alien species known as heptapods…
Read MoreThere are too many vital characters interacting with each other, crisscrossing subplots, that the logistics of the story gets lost within itself, but the saving grace is the artwork…
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