Star Wars: A Princess Calls for Help
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford. Photo: 20th Century Fox Many people of my age grew up watching the Star Wars franchise. I never did; my movie nerd era…
The Stepford Wives: Accept No Substitute
Katharine Ross. Photo: Columbia Screenwriter William Goldman was less than happy about director Bryan Forbes’s lack of integrity. The filmmaker had cast his wife, Nanette Newman, as one of the…
Terminator 2: Batting for the Other Team
Edward Furlong and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Photo: Tri-Star Pictures I was certainly part of the target audience for this film when it came out in 1991. I was 15 and the…
Terminator: The Deadly Energizer Rabbit
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Photo: Orion Pictures James Cameron has fought hard for The Terminator. He claims that the idea for the film came to him in a dream, but few question…
Back to the Future Part III
Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is stuck in 1885 and will be murdered, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) learns, unless he can travel back in time from 1955 and warn the…
The Matrix: Rage Against the Machines
Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves. Photo: Warner When Larry and Andy Wachowski were working as screenwriters on a film called Assassins (1995), they showed producer Joel Silver another script. He…
Back to the Future Part II
Immediately upon returning from 1955, Marty and Doc Brown (Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd) go to 2015 in order to stop disastrous events from ruining the future for Marty’s family.…
V
The weekly TV series that followed the first two miniseries showed the evil visitors making a dramatic comeback on Earth, reigniting the war; they were only hiding behind the moon.…
V: The Fourth Reich
Greta Blackburn, Frank Ashmore and Jane Badler. Photo: NBC A major hit in several countries when first shown on TV, this miniseries frightened me to the degree that I could…
Aliens: Mother Against Mother
Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox When I first heard about this film, I was 11 or 12 years old and pretty much a novice when it came to movies.…