The Martian: Left Behind
Matt Damon. Photo: 20th Century Fox If you’ve ever been to Wadi Rum in Jordan, you’ve been to Mars. The valley has been Hollywood’s favorite location for movies set on…
Prometheus
In the 2090s, the Prometheus is carrying a scientific expedition into outer space, heading for an Earth-like moon that could harbor clues to the beginning of mankind. Director Ridley Scott's…
Blade Runner: In Search of Emotions
Photo: Warner When I first saw this classic science fiction flick, I was thoroughly unimpressed. It looked great, but the story and action were so forgettable that I refused to…
Gladiator: Echoing in Eternity
Russell Crowe. Photo: Universal Gladiator is one of those films that opened as early as May, without all that much fanfare, and then kept building until the Oscars many months…
Alien: The Deadly Stowaway
Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox The most famous sequence of this horrifying classic takes place about thirty minutes into the story. Everyone is relaxing after a somewhat gut-wrenching experience.…
RKO 281
The story of how a lauded theater man called Orson Welles got the chance to direct a movie, but his choice to make Citizen Kane damn near killed his career. Why? Because…
Hannibal
Ten years after The Silence of the Lambs comes an opportunity to catch up with FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) and the runaway serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins),…