Inserts (1975)
[6] Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, The Goodbye Girl) stars as 'Boy Wonder', a washed up filmmaker making silent pornos in his secluded mansion in the early 1930s. Inserts is a 'day in the life' film that takes place in real time,…
You Only Live Twice (1967)
[7] James Bond (Sean Connery) travels to Japan for the fifth film in the franchise. Someone is capturing both Russian and American space vessels in attempt to start a war between the two superpowers. Bond works with the Japanese Secret…
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
[7] After the mediocre Episodes I and II, Star Wars creator George Lucas finally kicks his prequel trilogy into high gear with Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The film opens with the Galactic Republic at war with a growing…
12 Monkeys (1995)
[7] Bruce Willis plays a prisoner sent back in time to prevent a deadly virus from ravaging the planet in this darkly comedic sci-fi thriller from Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King). Institutionalized upon his arrival in 1996, Willis piques the…
Zodiac (2007)
[7] Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey, Jr. star in David Fincher's film about the investigation of the so-called 'Zodiac' killer in the late '60s through the early '80s. Downey and Gyllenhaal's characters work for the San Francisco Chronicle,…
Real Genius (1985)
[7] Gabe Jarret stars as a 15-year-old science prodigy who is accepted into a tech college where he's immediately placed on a cutting-edge laser project with other college-aged brainiacs. Val Kilmer plays his roommate, a goofy prankster whose irreverent attitude…
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
[6] Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) concludes the Mission: Impossible franchise with this eighth, overly-long and curiously somber film. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team spend half the film wrestling with the U.S. government before finally being cut…
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
[5] After wrapping up a terrific trilogy of Planet of the Apes films (2011-2017), Fox and Disney saw fit to give us another film that takes place generations later. I went into this latest film with great skepticism, and at…
Thunderball (1965)
[7] James Bond is sent to the Bahamas to locate two nuclear bombs stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in Thunderball, arguably one of the most widely anticipated 'event movies' since Gone with the Wind. Sean Connery's fourth time at bat starts off…
American Pie (1999)
[6] After dying out in the late eighties, the sex comedy made a comeback a decade later with American Pie, directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Little Fockers) and written by Adam Herz. Narratively, there's no reinvention of the…