Donnie Darko: Playing with Time

Jake Gyllenhaal and Daveigh Chase. Photo: Newmarket Films I have had dreams where I’m chased by Nazis in a forest. I have dreamt that I was a cast member of…

Signs 

Pennsylvania farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) discovers huge circles in his corn field; similar events are taking place all over the world and mankind soon learns that aliens are on…

RoboCop: Ghost in the Machine

Peter Weller. Photo: Orion Paul Verhoeven is a lively fellow. At work, he tends to use his entire body to show the cast and crew of a film exactly what…

The X Files 

FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) try to find out why several fire fighters and a boy were placed inside a federal building that subsequently…

Star Trek: First Contact 

The eighth Star Trek movie is the first to stand on its own with the crew from Star Trek: The Next Generation. This occasionally slow chapter harks back to a…

Star Trek Generations 

A scientist (Malcolm McDowell) ruthlessly intends to take advantage of an energy ribbon that contains a place of true happiness called the Nexus. The seventh film in the series marked…

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 

What makes the sixth chapter one of the most enjoyable in the series is the improved, elaborate visual effects as well as a screenplay featuring a story quite like a…

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 

A banished Vulcan sets up a phony hostage situation; his real objective is to hijack a ship like the Enterprise and take it to the final frontier. Scripts in the…