Cult Movie Reviews

Angel’s Egg is a 1985 anime OVA written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.  It was devised by Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano. Whether it’s fan...

Timebomb is a 1991 action movie with some major science fiction elements. It might be more accurate to describe it as a techno thriller.  I...

David Cronenberg’s 1996 movie Crash , shot in Toronto, is based on J.G. Ballard’s 1973 book. The movie starts with a car crash. James Ballar...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was released in 1984. It was a spectacular box-office flop. It’s not hard to see...

Leviathan , directed by George P. Cosmatos and released in 1989, was part of the “terror in the deep” science fiction-horror sub-genre that ...

Nemesis , released in 1992, was apparently the first film in an entire franchise the existence of which I had never suspected. The first fou...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a 2017 space opera blockbuster written and directed by Luc Besson. It is based on a French s...

At the tail end of the 80s suddenly everybody was making “terror beneath the sea” science fiction horror movies. Sean S. Cunningham’s 1989 D...

Millennium Actress is a 2001 anime feature film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon. His first feature film, the superb Perfect Blue (1...

John Carter , released by Disney in 2012, was intended to launch a franchise based on the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Never in t...