Here it is… our carefully curated list of the top ten best alien movies that are out of this world. 10- The Fourth Kind Starting the list off at number ten is 2009’s The Fourth Kind. Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi and starring Milla Jovovich, this movie follows Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist using hypnosis on …
If you’ve seen a film montage in the last 10 years, then you’ve been witness to at least one of the scenes mentioned on this list: the vibrating water glass from Jurassic Park signaling the T-Rex prowling nearby. It’s the perfect type of image to tell the audience: something is coming. These flashes of exhilaration …
Independence Day Directed by Roland Emmerich Written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich USA, 1996 Independence Day is one of my favorite movies. That’s not exactly a fact that I’m proud of but it’s the truth. Every time it’s on TV I watch it, I know all the lines, I have it on special edition …
Subtlety is a skill Roland Emmerich has not mastered. Subtlety is not, nor ever will be, in his repertoire; it is likely as alien a concept to him as opposable thumbs are to all non-human creatures. Most of the time, his thudding portentousness doesn’t serve him well as a director, with previous misfires like The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, and 2012 lining his filmography, movies that are big and loud enough to make money despite being massively, unpleasantly stupid.
On December 14, 2012, a young man named Adam Lanza broke into a primary school and fatally shot 26 people in the small village of Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Twenty of them were children, aged 6 or 7. On that day, no matter where I went or what I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about the …