Prometheus

Reviewed by Julien R. Fielding on Dec 22, 2012

Early in his career, Ridley Scott made back-to-back sci-fi films – Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982) – and then he abandoned the genre. (He claims that he doesn’t like to repeat himself.) To me, this has always been one of the universe’s greatest tragedies, because if you watch...

Dark Shadows

Reviewed by Julien R. Fielding on Oct 6, 2012

Dark Shadows came out while I was on holiday in the U.K., and by the time I got back, the reviews were so bad that I decided to skip it. Fast forward to today, Oct. 5. Because all of my DVDs were in transit from Netflix, I had nothing else to watch. A quick search on Amazon.com, $3.99...

Looper

Reviewed by Julien R. Fielding on Sep 28, 2012

Set in Kansas in 2044, Looper begins with Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) reciting conjugated French verbs. (I think it was aller.) Blunderbuss and pocket watch in hand, he is waiting for a man to arrive from 30 years in the future. Once that man does – hands tied behind his back and a white...