10 Cloverfield Lane Review
Don't let the title mislead you, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a fantastic, genre-defying horror movie.
J. J. Abrams
Thought Bubble: The Force Awakens is Nothing Without its Fans
The Force Awakens is a brilliant piece of pop culture cinema that invites the audience to project its own emotional memories into the Star Wars universe.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review – Spoiler-Free
We saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens and want to tell you all about it without giving away anything you don't already know.
Star Wars: 5 Things We Learned From Anthony Daniels’ Q & A
In anticipation of this week's Force Awakens release, Anthony Daniels popped by the Star War Pop-Up exhibit in Toronto to speak with some fortunate fans about his life as C-3PO. Here are five things we learned from this very special event.
Thought Bubble: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Force
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens just around the corner, That Shelf film contributor and lifelong fan Jason Gorber reflects on his tumultuous relationship with the Star Wars saga.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Review
Tom Cruise returns as IMF agent Ethan Hunt for a fifth time. So is Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation a mission worth accepting?
Cue Fanfare? Classic Star Wars element won’t return in Episode VII
With the acquisition of the rights to new Star Wars films by Disney, we'll be missing out on that classic 20th Century Fox fanfare opening for the new films.
Star Trek Into Darkness Fan Review
Alex James is baffled as to why so many people seemed so opposed to the new direction J.J. Abrams has decided to take in his Trek films - and boy oh boy, are they ever opposed. This piece isn't so much a review of Star Trek: Into Darkness as a critical defense of ideas in an era dominated by safe choices.
Star Trek Into Darkness Review
A step above J.J. Abrams first outing with the franchise, Star Trek Into Darkness delivers a fun story, a great villain, and an ending that will be analyzed and pondered over by fans of the series for quite some time.
Interview: J.J. Abrams and the Star Trek Crew
Director J.J. Abrams and actors Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, and Karl Urban share their thoughts on working together on the long awaited sequel that aims to boldly go where no franchise film has gone before, Star Trek Into Darkness .
This Week in DVD: 4/17/12
This week, action and misery seem to be the themes as takes on Shame and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , while Noah Taylor looks at The Divide , and Phil Brown watches Contraband
Super 8 Review
It’s safe to say that many filmgoers will always measure newcomer sci-fi epics by the standards of the classics that came before them. Close Encounters of the Third Kind , E.T. and the now thirty-to-forty year old peers that reserve warm fuzzy spots in hearts around the globe. So it was both interesting and completely logical that Steven Spielberg, creator of these titan classics, would use the talents of J. J. Abrams, undeniably a contemporary lord of genre, to, in essence, create a new film that makes tribute to his own triumphs.
