Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jan 8, 2000Cyberpunk Future/Hunt for Escaped Androids
Ridley Scott's film was not a success at the time but has since been regarded as a SF masterpiece, one of the defining screen treatments of android themes while the incredibly dense Cyberpunk vision of the future was copied by many subsequent films

Diplomatic Siege (1999)

Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Rating: ★★
Mar 24, 2016Action Film/Nuclear Threat
One of the numerous action films to use a variant on the Die Hard scenario (with an added nuclear threat). For once, this has an okay script and a sense of humour but is killed by a fatal miscasting of its two leads

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
Rating: ★★
Feb 12, 2005Revisionist Fairytale
TV mini-series co-produced between Hallmark Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company that offers an intriguing deconstruction of the fairytale although eventually proves to be a modernised replaying that reverses the sympathies

Northfork (2003)

Northfork (2003)
Rating: ★★
May 29, 2014Strange Film About Angels
The Polish Brothers, two of the most underrated creative teams in the US today, make a rather puzzling film about angels that feels like muted Coen Brothers. The film is cool, measured, has often striking imagery but leaves you scratching your head trying to figure out what it is about