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Saw this 40-minute documentary in imax with A-list. Good stuff from the Webb space telescope. My rating: B+

Saw this today with AMC A-list. It certainly had a lot of drama, and lots and lots of sweaty people playing tennis for long periods of time. The stars are all good, but wasn't really my cup of tea. The director did one of those let's jump back and forth in time for the whole movie structures...

Asimov wrote that "Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology." I feel like any movie set in the future is science fiction to some degree....And Star Wars counts too lol.

Since Civil War is set in an imagined near future, maybe it's science fiction? But maybe because of lack of science Civil War isn't really science fiction? From 1979 there's the near-future movie The China Syndrome, which I do show in my class—right after Star Wars lol, since we go...

Yes, in terms of sound and picture quality, I thought the final battles in DC were intense. Worked well in Imax.

We'll agree to disagree Josh S.—but in a civil way lol! You had an issue with "spice" in Dune as an explanation for faster-than-light space travel, while for me, because it's all impossible, whether it's called warp drive, spice, or whatever, that was less of an issue. But for a near-future...

Since this is a movie about journalists, it's puzzling that we never see the main characters file story or photo for the entire length of the movie. Sammy (played by Stephen McKinley Henderson) is a famous reporter, but he never gets out his computer, or a pen and pad of paper, in order write...

My friend and I enjoyed it! Excellent sound and picture in the Cinemark XD theater we saw it in. Although based on a real story, much of this movie is "cartoony," and lots of bad guys die very quickly without even fighting back. I would have preferred a more reality-based approach, but still...

I finally bought and watched the blu-ray for this 1968 action epic "Dark of the Sun." Jack Cardiff (cinematographer for Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The African Queen and many more) becomes the director here with mixed results. As we know, this was a time when what was allowed in terms of...

Saw this yesterday in the recent blu-ray, which is amazingly from the original camera negative, giving us A+ PQ. I've been a fan of Jean Simmons since I saw her in the 1946 version of Great Expectations as a kid, almost half a century ago. Also a fan of Robert Mitchum for almost as long. This...