The Right Stuff (1983)

The Right Stuff (1983)
Rating: ★★★½
Aug 26, 2002Story of the True Life Space Mission
Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program comes out halfway between admiration of the sheer ballsiness of the astronauts and buying into the flag-waving nationalism the Space Race represented.

Frequency (2000)

Frequency (2000)
Rating: ★★★½
Apr 30, 2000Cross-Time Radio Communication
Intelligent and well written film where freak weather conditions allow a son to communicate with his late father by radio across thirty years in time. Where the film starts to get interesting is when this creates unexpected changes in the present

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 1, 2004New Ice Age/Environmental Disaster Movie
In another of his big budget disaster spectacles, Roland Emmerich embraces environmental concerns about Global Warming. Here he (unscientifically) imagines the abrupt onset of a new Ice Age worldwide

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)

G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)
Rating: ★★
Aug 25, 2009Futuristic Military Action Team
Stephen Sommers make a film based on the popular action toy line. Barring one exhilarating sequence in the middle, this consists of lots of sound and CGI fury amounting to very little at all