The 101 Sci-Fi Movies brings a colorful, flamboyant and undeniably fun addition to the list with this fun ride, that features Bruce Willis as an unemployed cab driver who is trying to save the world. Set in the distant year of 2263, the thing I love most about this film is that its future…
The Heroic Trio (1993) – Johnnie To
The 101 Action Movies doesn’t usually leave me scratching my head, but this entry definitely got me close to it. Imagine crossing Charlie’s Angels, with a healthy dose of Kung Fu, mysticism, wrap it up in a less than stellar comic book title and you might have something approaching this. The sets and costumes…
The Fugitive (1993) – Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis has back to back entries in the 101 Action Movies list, first Under Siege, and now the big screen version of the classic television show, The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford, as Doctor Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones as U.S. Marshall Sam Gerard. This film, is inextricably tied to a point in…
Under Siege (1992) – Andrew Davis
If you take Die Hard, remove Bruce Willis’ charm and humor and put it on a battleship, you have this entry on the 101 Action Movies list. I’ve never been a big Steven Seagal fan, though having said that, I saw all the films he did in the early 80s and 90s, and none…
Independence Day (1996) – Roland Emmerich
The 101 Sci-Fi Movies list brings this combination of sci-fi in the vein of War of the Worlds and an Irwin Allen disaster flick, with a huge dose of popcorn entertainment thrown in as good measure. Now that being said, this film isn’t with its eye-rolling cheese, and its questionable plotlines… the most famous of…
Twelve Monkeys (1995) – Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam returns to the 101 Sci-Fi Movies with this fantastic temporal thriller that nods to both La Jetee and Slaughterhouse Five. It also, for my money, has Brad Pitt’s finest performance. Bruce Willis is James Cole, a ‘volunteer’ recruited by the scientists who run the world of 2035. Humanity has been forced from…
The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard – Available On Demand!
The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard, starring Lost Girl’s Kris Holden-Ried and Zoie Palmer, is a film that will always have an important part in my life, it was one of my fave films of 2011, and also created a number of friendships and acquaintances with some amazing people, not the least of which is Jeremy Lalonde, Mary…
Girls – Season 1 & Season 2
HBO was kind enough to send me a copy of Girls Season 2 this week on blu-ray, which is the only excuse I needed to run out and pick up season 1. I’d been intrigued by the idea of the show since a number of guests mentioned it during our interviews, so I was…
The Newsroom S02E05 – News Night with Will McAvoy
This week’s episode is bottled to run the length of one broadcast of News Night, something I’ve wanted to see from the beginning of the series. And while, everything seems to be going smoothly on air, viewers are only seeing part of the story, there is so much going on around and in the news…
Ghost In The Shell (1995) – Mamoru Oshii
The 101 Sci-Fi Movies brings us another anime classic, based on the manga of the same name, this one dealing with the idea of what it means to be living and how we define life. Set in the oh-so-distant year 2029, corporations and city-states have taken over the world, nations have collapsed, and the…
