Set in 1630 New England, first time director Robert Eggers launches his debut with this unusual, creepy witch-based “folktale.” Constructed from his own script, the story opens with William (Ralph Ineson) and Katherine (Kate Dickie) standing before the leaders of the settlement/plantation where they have freshly landed from England. There appears to be some disagreement […]
10 Cloverfield Lane
After surviving a car accident, Michelle Burke (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in an underground cellar, where most of the film takes place. She fears she has been abducted by a survivalist named Howard Stambler (John Goodman) who tells her he saved her life, and that a worldwide chemical attack has left Earth’s surface uninhabitable. Stambler […]
The Martian
Matt Damon’s Everyman quality and wry sense of humor makes him the perfect actor to portray Mark Watney, astronaut, in Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” written by Drew Goddard, based on the book by Andy Weir. When a violent storm forces the Hermes crew, led by Commander Melissa Lewis (a steely Jessica Chastain), to abort the […]
Raiders of the Lost Ark
It’s said that the original is the greatest, and there can be no more vivid proof than Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first and indisputably best of the initial three Indiana Jones adventures cooked up by the dream team of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Expectations were high for this 1981 collaboration between the […]
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