Evolver (1995)
The renegade robot tomfoolery of Micheal Crichton’s Runaway (1984) — he also gave us Looker (1981) — (look for both reviews this week) and Jim Wynorski’s Chopping Mall, aka Killbots (1986), bring us to this “ancient future” ditty oft-run to ad nauseam levels during the earliest days of the Sci-Fi Channel before the double-Ys. In […]
Brainstorm (1983)
2001: A Space Odyssey and Silent Running will — always and forever — be two of my favorite science fiction movies. Douglas Trumbull did the mind-blowing special effects on the first and did the same on the second, but also directed it. And he gave us the effects in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. […]
The Lawnmower Man (1992)
You know, when Stephen King takes his name off your movie, you probably should think of what that means. Adapted from an original screenplay called CyberGod and King’s 1975 short story, The Lawnmower Man presents a virtual reality world that you could animate on your smartphone today. Virtual Space Industries Doctor Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is […]
Sneakers (1992)
Phil Alden Robinson is the very definition of having one or two blemishes on an otherwise spotless record as a writer/director. Just look at that resume — Field of Dreams, The Sum of All Fears, Bill Lustig’s Relentless — and realize that he also wrote Rhinestone and Ghost Dad. Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes were the co-screenwriters, coming […]
Defense Play (1988)
It’s time for more high school kids with computer-tech skills! But thanks to the presence of ubiquitous TV character actor Monte Markham (who lost out on the Steve Austin role in The Six Million Dollar Man; but we’ve enjoyed him in such TV movie and drive-in fare as The Astronaut, Hotline, and Ginger in the […]
Antitrust (2001)
Also called Conspiracy.com and Startup — yes, these are the most nineties titles ever — Antitrust shows what I always expected from those way too cool-looking corporations. I once worked in an ad agency that had a sliding board and that thing was only used by guests. We’d all been hurt on it and knew better. After creating […]
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