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Director John Badham‘s 1983 thriller WarGames is a bang on target sci-fi fantasy adventure starring Matthew Broderick as teenage wiz kid David Lightman, who unwittingly taps his home computer into a top secret United States military super-computer […]
Writer-director Sam Levinson’s full-on, full-throttle Assassination Nation (2018) is hard to like and hard to sit through, but it is done with great enthusiasm and skill, and huge self-belief – and very considerable show-off style. It […]
Director Niels Arden Oplev’s 2009 Swedish thriller based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s series of novels about the disgraced financial campaigning journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the troubled, tattooed young computer hacker Lisbeth […]
Ghost in the Shell is smart, smooth and slick, visually stylish and impressive, an interesting attempt at an arty blockbuster. But it is also a bit flat and one-note, as well as derivative, with many […]
Criminal may be fun, even a guilty pleasure, but it is a pretty bad sci-fi action thriller, with a ridiculous premise that’s impossible to swallow about the memories and skills of a dead CIA agent […]
Co-producer/writer/director Steven Lisberger’s attractive and appealing 1982 surreal electronic-age Sci-Fi adventure from an unexpected Walt Disney Studios is smart, stylish, exciting and visually thrilling. It received nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Sound at the 55th Academy Awards and received […]
Director Michael Mann‘s thinking person’s action cyber-thriller is a competent, sometimes exciting entertainment. But it is also frustrating as it feels like there’s a much better movie trying to break out of if, and ultimately it […]
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