Deadpool 2 (2018)
[7] SPOILERS. I think. If you care, don't read! I'm so glad we have a superhero who flirts with both men and women. In Deadpool 2, Ryan Reynold's wisecracking vigilante is seen grabbing the iron ass of Colossus, going tip to…
A Quiet Place (2018)
[7] John Krasinski and Emily Blunt star in this high-concept apocalyptic horror flick in which the human race has been decimated by creatures of unknown origin that have super-hearing abilities. And if they hear you, they kill you. So the…
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
[8] I've been hard on Marvel movies for being cookie-cutter and devoid of surprises, but Avengers: Infinity War stops that trend dead in its tracks. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War) are downright…
Ready Player One (2018)
[7] Steven Spielberg brings Ernest Cline's book to the big screen. It's about a dystopian future in which everyone is poor and living in squalor, so they spend most of their free time living in a big virtual game world…
Black Panther (2018)
[6] Somewhere in Africa, there's a secret society hidden away by fancy technology. They have, like, a really super-strong metal there that the rest of the world wants, but the secret African people know the rest of the world will…
Downsizing (2017)
[7] Matt Damon stars in writer/director Alexander Payne's (Election, Nebraska) film about a man who undergoes a miraculous new "shrinking" process so that he can live in a miniature utopia where his money is worth more... a lot more. Unfortunately, the…
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
[6] A 1943 Navy experiment to cloak a ship from enemy radar accidentally sends two sailors forty-one years into the future. Once they arrive in 1984, they are pursued by the military and begin suffering a mysterious illness that threatens their…
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
[8] Writer/director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper) picks up the reigns and steers the franchise into bold, new waters with an entry that summons Star Wars fans to let go of the past and wipe the slate clean, so that something…
Iron Man (2008)
[7] The superhero film movement happened in spurts dating all the way back to Richard Donner's 1978 film Superman: The Movie, but with Iron Man, Marvel Studios declared the genre was here to stay. Iron Man lays groundwork for a greater…
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[8] This is the best of the Next Generation films, in large part because it deals with one of Star Trek's most formidable foes, the Borg. The movie also incorporates a subplot involving warp drive inventor Zephram Cochran (James Cromwell)…