3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (329+ words) Forty-seven years after it first burst into our nightmares, H. R. Giger’s Alien still looks icky and sleek, and somehow freshly unearthed. Not designed so much as woken up. The pictures are magnificent. But the best thing in the book is Giger…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (520+ words) Confess, Fletch Movie Review: “No thanks, I ate yesterday.” cinemasentries.com Confess, Fletch Movie Review: “No thanks, I ate yesterday.” Confess, Fletch has one major problem that no amount of clever dialogue or talented supporting actors can overcome: it isn’t…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (920+ words) Cinema Sentries Disclosure Day 4K UHD Review: Spielberg Returns to the Alien Well There is an iconic moment in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic, where a little boy opens a door to reveal a great beam of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (430+ words) A couple of years ago, I was chatting with someone on the internet who didn’t understand the appeal of Steven Spielberg. He admitted that Spielberg had made a few good movies, but he didn’t understand why he was considered to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (482+ words) Cinema Sentries American Beauty (1999) Movie Review: A Rose by Any Other Name When American Beauty won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2000, it seemed to capture something essential about the end of the 20th century: the suspicion that the comfortable…...