Until this re-imagining was released in summer 2009, I was mostly indifferent towards “Star Trek,” but this crowd-pleasing blockbuster really changed my opinion, and became
Tag: science fiction
Deep Impact (1998)
Mimi Leder’s “Deep Impact” got overshadowed at the box-office likely due to a one-two punch of the similarly-themed “Armageddon” (released around the same time), and
The Vast of Night (2019)
Andrew Patterson’s “The Vast of Night” is one of those movies that would be so much better if its director had learned to stay out
Predator 2 (1990)
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of “Predator,” but even I think it deserves a much better sequel than
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
There are so many alternate versions of Steven Spielberg’s UFO classic that I’m not about to start the painstaking process of trying to sort out
Night of the Comet (1984)
This hybrid of science-fiction, horror and comedy is the kind of mid-budget genre entry that use to happily litter video store shelves in the ’80s
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