Science fiction movies are rarely about science. In fact, the ostentatious CGI-dependent, invasion-centered storylines we are repeatedly subjected to strictly restricts the sci-fi genre. A lot of sci-fi features exist completely outside…
Tag: 1986
In the mid-1980s, general secretary of the Communist Party and the leader of Soviet Russia Mikhail Gorbachev launched a series of radical political and economic reforms to boost the stagnant economy and…
Hoosier is the nickname for someone who is born in Indiana or a resident of this particular U.S. state. David Anspaugh’s beloved basketball drama, Hoosiers (1986) is set in 1950s small-town Hickory,…
Michael Mann’s Manhunter (1986), based on Thomas Harris’ 1981 novel Red Dragon, was the first of several crime thrillers to feature the popular on-screen psychopath, Hannibal Lecter. Brian Cox plays Hannibal Lecter…
A subject matter like polyamory would need to be delicately scrutinised, unpacked, and presented if a film wished to present its virtues and possible utility. She’s Gotta Have It seems to do the opposite, making polyamory seem like a conflicted mess that pits those in the relationship against each other.
You either get David Lynch or you don’t. You either buy his sense of surreal or you shy away. There has rarely been a middle ground when it comes to his works…