Before Silicon Valley discovered that the future could be mined, sold, and optimized, Steven Spielberg made Minority Report, a film that now plays less like speculative fiction and more like an uncomfortably accurate documentary about where power actually ...

Lock your doors, polish your spheres, and buckle up in the ’71 Cuda—because Phantasm has never looked this wicked. The Tall Man stalks sharper than ever in glorious 4K, his polyester suits practically glowing with menace, while those chrome death orbs gleam like disco balls forged ...

Okay, so 2003 horror was… how do we put this kindly… the cinematic equivalent of a mall fountain. Everything was glossy, safe, and engineered to offend absolutely no one. Studios were terrified of real gore, real grime, or anything that smelled like the weird, dangerous VHS energy Gen X grew up  ...

“Big bada boom.” There’s this moment early on—Korben Dallas slumped in his cramped apartment, cigarette filter glowing blue, the city outside stacked like a cosmic junk drawer—that tells you everything about The Fifth Element before the plot even kicks in. It’s the way the camera lingers on the ...

If you want to understand why Lethal Weapon still hits like a shot of cinematic espresso, start with the Christmas‑tree‑lot shootout. It’s pure 1987 chaos: Mel Gibson’s Riggs, all hair and unmedicated intensity, trying to buy cocaine from guys who look like they were cast directly from a Whitesnake  ...

Christmas Above the Clouds is the kind of holiday movie Gen‑Xers pretend we’re too emotionally fortified to enjoy — and then absolutely watch while eating leftover pizza over the sink. Directed by Peter Benson, the film stars Erin Krakow as Ella Neezer, a CEO whose  ...

 Oy to the World! is one of those Hallmark holiday movies that sneaks up on you. You put it on while wrapping presents — tape stuck to your elbow, ribbon refusing to curl, the whole seasonal disaster — and suddenly you’re emotionally invested in whether two former  ...

There are movies you watch, and then there are movies that get welded into your nervous system. Full Metal Jacket has always been the latter for me — a film that hit Gen X right in that sweet spot between cynicism and reluctant awe. We grew up on the tail end of the Vietnam hangover ...