Directed by James Cameron The Abyss felt a lot like an underwater version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's grand, operatic and similarly concerned with extraterrestrial life forms. Or maybe what I'm thinking of is Close Encounters of the Third Kind. While it does run a bit long, the film is both riveting, amusing and frightening, all … Continue reading The Abyss (1989)
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Directed by Ed Wood Jr. Plan 9 From Outer Space, once dubbed the worst movie ever made, combines Cold War era fear mongering with gothic era horror and a forced message about man's capability to self-destruct. All of these ideas, in their own way, offer something of value, but it is poorly held together, bursting at … Continue reading Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Directed by Norman Jewison A submarine-jul of Russian soldiers run aground on the fictional Gloucester Island, just off the New England coast and ignite the Cold War era fears of the small town in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. The subsequent mob mentality shows how quickly fear and unsubstantiated rumors evolve into anger … Continue reading The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Cold War (2018)
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Cold War is a love story between Zula and Wiktor, told over the course of fifteen years made tumultuous due to Poland's politics of the time. The various difficulties they face, both between each other and with their government, turn them into a modern-er day Romeo & Juliet, two people destined for … Continue reading Cold War (2018)
The Chocolate War (1988)
Directed by Keith Gordon The Chocolate War has a lot in common with what I must assume is a much more accessible movie, 1989's Dead Poets Society. Both films take place at all-male boarding schools in which there is a strong divide between the adolescents and their teachers. In Dead Poets Society Robin Williams plays the teacher … Continue reading The Chocolate War (1988)
The Iron Giant (1999)
Directed by Brad Bird The Iron Giant lands in tiny Rockwell, Maine. It's a fishing village, and the intimacy of such a small town allows for a good microcosm of America at the time as a whole. The story takes place in 1957, a time smothered in post World War II paranoia, but our perspective … Continue reading The Iron Giant (1999)
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