SYNOPSIS: A mere 200 yards from shore, a young surfer is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. REVIEW: It’s not easy to make an effective thriller in which one person squares off against a shark. Lord knows, lots of people thought it was after Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws …
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Film Review: Dreams (1990)
SYNOPSIS: “This is essentially eight separate short films, though with some overlaps in terms of characters and thematic material – chiefly that of man’s relationship with his environment. Sunshine Through The Rain: a young boy is told not to go out on the day when both weather conditions occur, because that’s when the foxes hold their wedding procession, which could …
Read More »Get Your ‘Spielberg’ On With This Fantastic New Blu-ray Collection
You a big Steven Spielberg fan? I sure the hell am so you can imagine my interest in this new Blu-ray collection heading our way. It’s the ‘Steven Spielberg Director’s Collection and it certainly goes on the “must own” list.
Read More »Film Review: Men In Black II (2002)
SYNOPSIS: “In 1978, a race of aliens came to Earth and asked the MIB to help protect their greatest treasure which they call ‘The Light’ which is a source of awesome power. But it’s not in their mandate to do that so they tell them they can’t and send them away. But in the present day, Serleeena an alien who …
Read More »JURASSIC WORLD Will Venture Into The Future
All we’ve known for sure up to this point is that the next chapter in the JURASSIC PARK franchise will be titled JURASSIC WORLD and it would be released on June 12, 2015. Thanks to the director on the project we now have another tiny tidbit of info we can add to the list. Rumors have swirled for a bit …
Read More »Film Review: Minority Report (2002)
SYNOPSIS: “Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes, courtesy of some future-viewing technology. John Anderton has the tables turned on him when he is accused of a future crime and must find out what …
Read More »A Duo Of Clips To Promote JURASSIC PARK 3D
I still remember sitting with my wife in the theater and being completely blow away by JURASSIC PARK. I had read the book and had no idea how Spielberg was planning on pulling off what needed to be done but I sure was looking forward to it and holy crap, did he deliver. That was 20 years ago and today …
Read More »Film Review: Twilight Zone The Movie (1983)
SYNOPSIS: “Four horror-science fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue. In the first story, a loud-mouthed bigoted businessman with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks and Asians gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably …
Read More »Anthology Television Series Shows – A Study of TV’s Best – Part 2
Rate This MovieContinuing on with our essay, we present – Anthology Television Series Shows – A Study of TV’s Best – Part 2. If you missed the first part you can access Anthology Television Series Shows – A Study of TV’s Best – Part 1 directly here. DARKROOM aired from 1981 to 1982, each hour-long episode featuring two or more stories of …
Read More »Film Review: Duel (1971)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “David Mann is feeling emasculated in his life, especially after a fight with his wife the evening before. While driving to a business appointment along a two-lane relatively secluded highway in the California desert, David, innocently he believes, passes an eighteen-wheel fuel truck. Later, the truck comes across him again, playing games of road chicken. David initially …
Read More »SHOWTIME – Stephen King and Steven Spielberg go UNDER THE DOME
We already knew that Steven Spielberg picked up the rights to Stephen King’s epic novel UNDER THE DOME. We just didn’t know what he was going to do with it but that changes tonight. We now know that the two Steve’s are heading over to SHOWTIME where the network that brings us DEXTER will try their hand at adapting KING. …
Read More »JAWS Blu-ray attacking soon!
AICN scored the big “cool” story of the week when they scored the news that JAWS will be making its way to Blu-ray very soon. Quint, one of the long time contributors to the site got an almost hour long sit down with Mr. Spielberg and the news shot forth that the process has begun and there will be a …
Read More »Two new TV spots for SUPER 8
So, are you ready? SUPER 8 is coming at us and I have a feeling these next few weeks we are going to be bombarded with SUPER 8 clips, spots, pics, interviews and the like. June 10th is the debut date and before you check out the clips here’s the synopsis to refresh you memory. In the summer of 1979, …
Read More »More SUPER 8 coolness
I know, it seems like I’m talking about this flick a lot but they are doing a great job of stirring things up and keeping it interesting. Remember that trailer I showed you yesterday? Well, hidden in the camera lens at the end of the trailer was a website address, it looks like this: If you look in the lens, …
Read More »Film Review: Jaws (1975)
SYNOPSIS: The people of the small island town of Amity are being attacked by a giant Great White shark during their busy summer season when tourists flood the town. Three men (The Police Chief, a Marine Biologist & a grizzled fisherman) set out to hunt it down & kill it before it can claim any more victims in it’s razor …
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