Poltergeist: House of Horrors

JoBeth Williams. Photo: MGM With only days away from the premiere of the remake of Poltergeist (1982), I decided that a visit to my parents, which is also my childhood…

Lethal Weapon 4 

After coming across Chinese slave laborers, Riggs and Murtaugh (Mel Gibson, Danny Glover) go up against a ruthless immigrant smuggling ring. Our heroes are growing older, but not much changes…

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

15 years after the last movie, Max (Mel Gibson) reaches a rowdy place called Bartertown, which is run by the ruthless Auntie Entity (Tina Turner); she has to rely on…

Mad Max 2: Star Wars Aussie-Style

Mel Gibson. Photo: Warner Mad Max (1979) has been described as a key film in the Australian New Wave. Heavily debated because of the violence, it was recognized internationally as…

Mad Max

In a future Australia where an energy crisis has begun to erode society, a cop (Mel Gibson) clashes with a brutal motorcycle gang. One of the most successful films of…

Avengers: Age of Ultron 

When a program devised by Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) called Ultron becomes unexpectedly sentient and immediately targets The Avengers as a threat that needs to be extinct, our superheroes…

The Towering Inferno

Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) arrives at the opening party of a new 138-story building in San Francisco, but parts of it are poorly constructed and when a fire breaks…

How to Train Your Dragon 2 

A few years after the events of the first movie, Hiccup and his village are drawn into a battle against a conqueror who knows how to trap and control dragons.…

Life Itself: Ebert’s Four-Star Journey

Roger Ebert. Photo: Magnolia Pictures I first approached this film because of my interest in movies and as a fan of Roger Ebert as a film critic. Would it appeal…