Category: Film Reviews

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith Rating Director George Lucas Screenplay George Lucas Length 2h 20m Starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits, Frank Oz, Anthony Daniels, Christopher Lee, Keisha Castle-Huges MPAA Rating PG-13 Review The final film in the prequel trilogy that leads into…

Star Trek: Nemesis Rating Director Stuart Baird Screenplay John Logan, Rick Berman, Brent Spiner Length 1h 56m Starring Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Mirina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Tom Hardy, Ron Perlman, Shanon Cochran, Dina Meyer, Jude Ciccolella, Alan Dale MPAA Rating PG-13 Review What would turn out to be the…

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Rating Director Nicholas Meyer Screenplay Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn Length 1h 50m Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Kim Cattrall, Mark Lenard, Grace Lee Whitney, Brock Peters, Leon Russom, Kurtwood Smith, Christopher Plummer,…

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Rating Director William Shatner Screenplay William Shatner, Harve Bennett, David Loughery Length 1h 47m Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, David Warner, Laurence Luckinbill, Charles Cooper, Cynthia Gouw, Todd Bryant, Spice Williams, Rex Holman, George Murdock MPAA Rating PG Review…

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Rating Director Leonard Nimoy Screenplay Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Nicholas Meyer Length 1h 59m Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Jane Wyatt, Catherine Hicks, Mark Lenard, Robin Curtis MPAA Rating PG Review Analogy in science fiction…

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Rating Director Leonard Nimoy Screenplay Harve Bennett Length 1h 45m Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Robin Curtis, Merritt Butrick, Phil Morris, Scott McGinnis, Robert Hooks, Christopher Lloyd MPAA Rating PG Review While it is incredibly difficult to follow…

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Rating Director Nicholas Meyer Screenplay Jack B. Sowards, Harve Bennett Length 1h 53m Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley, Ricardo Montalban, Ike Eisenmann, John Vargas, John Winston, Paul Kent MPAA Rating…

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Rating Director Robert Wise Screenplay Harold Livingston, Alan Dean Foster Length 2h 12m Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Persis Khabatta, Stephen Collins, Grace Lee Whitney, Mark Lenard MPAA Rating G Review Rescued from cancellation by Lucille Ball and…

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Rating Director George Miller, George Ogilvie Screenplay Terry Hayes, George Miller Length 1h 47m Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Tina Turner, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto, Paul Larsson, Angry Anderson, Robert Grubb, George Spartels, Edwin Hodgeman MPAA Rating PG-13 Review Four years after the success of the second film in…

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Rating Director George Miller Screenplay Terry Hayes, George Miller, Brian Hannant Length 1h 36m Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Mike Preston, Max Phipps, Vernon Wells, Kjell Nilsson, Emil Minty, Virginia Hey, William Zappa, Arkie Whiteley MPAA Rating R Review Finding your place after the apocalypse can be a struggle.…

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Rating Director Steven Spielberg Screenplay Steven Spielberg Length 2h 18m Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren Kemmerling MPAA Rating PG Review When speaking of seminal science fiction films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind ranks among the upper echelons of…

Gattaca Rating Director Andrew Niccol Screenplay Andrew Niccol Length 1h 46m Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Loren Dean, Gore Vidal, Xander Berkeley, Jayne Brook, Elias Koteas, Maya Rudolph, Blair Underwood, Ernest Borgnine, Tony Shalhoub, Alan Arkin, Dean Norris, Ken Marino, Cynthia Martells, Gabrielle Reece MPAA Rating PG-13 Review Genetic manipulation has been a…

Beetlejuice Rating Director Tim Burton Screenplay Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren Length 1h 32m Starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, Sylvia Sidney, Roubert Goulet, Dick Cavett, Glenn Shadix, Annie McEnroe, Maree Cheatham, Tony Cox, Susan Kellermann, Adelle Lutz, Jack Angel MPAA Rating PG Review With the rare…

The Fifth Element Rating Director Luc Besson Screenplay Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Length 2h 06m Starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, Brion James, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister Jr. MPAA Rating PG-13 Review The 1990s was a terrific decade for science fiction. The Fifth Element was among those films,…

Return of the Jedi Rating Director Richard Marquand Screenplay Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas Length 2h 11m Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Sebastaian Shaw, Ian McDiarmid, Frank Oz, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker MPAA Rating PG Review A return to the material that…