Part 2 — How do the movies I loved as a kid hold up today?

Part 1 — How do the movies I loved as a kid hold up today?

May 27, 2010
I’ve loved movies for as long as I can remember, but there are a few that I recall thinking were “TOTALLY AWESOME!” during my childhood.  For the sake of nostalgia, I’ve decided to revisit 15 of my favorites to see if they’ve been able to weather the test of time. Some of these [...]

Numbers 3-1 of my favorite science fiction films.

Numbers 6-4 of my favorite science fiction films.

May 11, 2010
After mulling over the latest Inception trailer, I began to wonder—what does it take to make a piece of science fiction “great”?  Is it an almost inhuman ability to focus on details (and thus make the world in which any set of fictional characters exists entirely believable)?  Should there be a focus on [...]

Numbers 10-7 of my favorite science fiction films.

The idea of offering a sacrifice to a “higher power,” whether it’s in the form of slain animals or something more acceptable for contemporary society, has been around for a very long time. It should be no wonder, then, that it pervades the movies we encounter.

I assert that they are, in fact, almost the same movie.

3D Good or 3D Bad?