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29. Wall-E (2008)
by Allan Fish Buy N Large – your very best friend p Jim Morris d Andrew Stanton w Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon story Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter ed Steven Schaffer m Thomas Newman art Ralph Eggleston...
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28. Videodrome (1983)
By J.D. Lafrance David Cronenberg’s early career saw him create several memorable body horror films that involved the destruction of the body via parasites (Shivers), or disease via surgery (Rabid) or...
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27. A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
by Sam Juliano The idea behind A.I. was originally conceived by Stanley Kubrick, who subsequently entrusted the proposed project to Steven Spielberg. When Kubrick died suddenly in 1999, his widow...
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26. Style as a State: Alain Resnais’ Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)
Time and time again I knew what I was doing and Time and time again it just made things worse It seems you see the most of what is really true when You’re stepping into your hearse Only time can...
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25. Forbidden Planet (1956)
by Brandie Ashe “In the final decade of the 21st century, men and women in rocket ships landed on the moon. By 2200 AD, they had reached the other planets of our solar system. Almost at once there...
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Princeton and Chappaqua Book Festivals, The Magnificent Seven and at-home...
With our very dear friend John Grant (realthog) at the Princton Book Festival on Saturday by Sam Juliano What a fabulous surprise was in store for Lucille, Danny and I went we walked down the rows...
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24. Interstellar (2014)
by Allan Fish (USA 2014 169m) DVD1/2 Worrying about our place in the dirt p Lynda Obst, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan d Christopher Nolan w Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan ph Hoyte van...
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23. Face of Another
by Stephen Mullen Science Fiction can come in many forms. There are the big world building SF stories imagining whole worlds different from ours, however rigorously they might work out how they got to...
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22. Ikarie XB1 (1963)
2 by Sachin Gandhi Jindrich Polák’s IKARIE XB 1 (1963) is one of the most significant Science fiction films ever made yet it is also relatively unknown even though its fingerprints can be found on...
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21. Gattaca (1997)
by Adam Ferenz October 1997, 106 minutes. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Loren Dean, Gore Vidal. Andrew Niccol’s opus, Gattaca, is not only among the smartest work of science fiction-different to...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Twenty Yawns
by Sam Juliano Lauren Castillo can now properly be framed as the picture book humanist of our day. Her art may not project the humorous exuberance of Stephen Gamell, nor the socioeconomic...
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20. The Empire Strikes Back
by Andrew Cook I was asked to write about Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back for the countdown. Empire Strikes Back is one of the first films I fell in love with as a kid, and it’s an honor...
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# 19 The Thing (1982)
by Adam Ferenz June 25, 1982. 109 minutes. Written by Bill Lancaster, from the short story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley,...
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18. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
by John Greco If we don’t stop killing each other we will be exterminated. That’s the message given by one of the greatest science fiction films ever made. World War II ended with the dropping of a...
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Queen of Katwe and Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children on Monday...
by Sam Juliano We have crossed the October threshold and with that some serious progress into what is traditionally the most rewarding span for all the arts. The award worthy film season has now...
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17. Children of Men (2006)
by Brandie Ashe “As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices.” Three years ago, when I was thirty-three years old, I was...
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16. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
By Dean Treadway My first viewing of Close Encounters, in the winter of 1977, is etched into my mind, so much so that I cannot let this brief review go without referring back to it. My parents and I...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Some Pig!
by Sam Juliano In 1941 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley as the Best Picture. It was a decision that has lived in infamy and has long maligned...
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JIM JARMUSCH’S DEAD MAN “I don’t know anything about poetry”
© 2016 by James Clark Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995) is a strange and brilliant delight, but it presents, to the unwary, death-dealing pitfalls. Tackling it, as Roger Ebert chose to do (in the...
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15. Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution
by Stephen Mullen Alphaville is the first Godard film I ever saw, way back in the mid-80s. I saw it on a double bill with Alexander Nevsky, if my memory is accurate after 30 odd years. I remember...
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