Interstellar: Escape from Earth

Matthew McConaughey. Photo: Warner The day I saw this movie, I woke up feeling sad over what is a very common dream for me. It had taken me back to…

Guardians of the Galaxy 

Somewhere in outer space, a human pilot (Chris Pratt) lays his hands on an orb that contains powerful forces and is immediately hunted; along the way, he befriends a motley…

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

In 2026, when most of the human population has been wiped out by a virus, Caesar is leading a tribe of apes in the Muir Woods; one day, they run…

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 

After winning the Hunger Games, tributes Katniss and Peeta (Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson) inspire rebellions in several districts, and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) comes up with a new version of…

Independence Day 

An inflated and flag-waving throwback to the grand space movies and disaster flicks of the 1950s and ’70s; the story, where Earth is attacked by aliens and must retaliate, could…

X-Men: Days of Future Past

In 2023, most mutants have been wiped out by man-made robots called Sentinels; with the help of Shadowcat (Ellen Page), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent back in time to 1973…

The Hunger Games 

As punishment for a past uprising, twelve districts must offer their rulers two "tributes", a boy and a girl, to compete in the Hunger Games where they fight to the…

Gravity: More Science, Less Hollywood

Sandra Bullock. Photo: Warner Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and the most famous person working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was surprised the other day to…

The World’s End 

Ne'er-do-well Gary King (Simon Pegg) gathers his old friends for a pub crawl in their hometown of Newton Haven, little dreaming that they'll get wrapped up in a global battle……

Apollo 13: Lost Moon, Saved Lives

Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon and Tom Hanks. Photo: Universal When producer Brian Grazer and director Ron Howard decided to turn the story about the ill-fated 1972 Apollo 13 mission into…