Wolfen (1981)

Wolfen (1981)
Rating: ★★
Aug 19, 2001Intelligent Wolves
Adaptation of a Whitley Strieber book about intelligent wolves hunting in New York City from Michael Wadleigh, the director of Woodstock ... The film tends to bury Strieber’s straightforward horror story under social concerns as though wanting to distance itself from the horror label

Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jan 8, 2000Cyberpunk Future/Hunt for Escaped Androids
Ridley Scott's film was not a success at the time but has since been regarded as a SF masterpiece, one of the defining screen treatments of android themes while the incredibly dense Cyberpunk vision of the future was copied by many subsequent films

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
Rating:
Apr 25, 2017Ray Bradbury Adaptation/Magical Suit
Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon adapts a Ray Bradbury play about five men who buy a suit that has magical properties. Bradbury is a great writer but this drowns in overripe dialogue, bad racial caricatures and Gordon's typically over-the-top propensities

Coco (2017)

Coco (2017)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 10, 2018Pixar Animaton/Mexican Afterlife
Pixar's 19th film. Set on the Mexican Day of the Dead and then venturing into the afterlife, this is a celebration of all things Mexican, which Pixar conduct without any wrong steps. A film made in vibrant colours

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Rating: ★★★★½
Jan 6, 2018Cyberpunk Future/Androids
Blade Runner is a landmark classic but this is well worthwhile sequel from Denis Villeneuve that recreates the fascinating Cyberpunk world in more detail and expands out on the themes laid down in the original. Made with impeccably beautiful detail