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Review: Megalopolis (2024)

Francis Ford Coppola's strange political fable is an absurd, admirable moonshot of a film.

Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

The wonderful digital ape characters and a few peaks of world-building cannot cover up the inessential storytelling.

Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromJune 20, 2024Planet of the Apes, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wes Ball, Josh Friedman, Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, William H. Macy, post-apocalyptic, apes, rescue your family, religion, world building, science fictionComment

Roundtable: Halloween Horror: Island of Lost Souls (1932)

The Brothers discuss Erle C. Kenton’s pre-Code horror adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Roundtable: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

The Brothers discuss James Cameron’s return with Avatar: The Way of Water. How does the sequel hold up?

James Cameron, RoundtablesAnton BergstromJanuary 6, 2023James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar, science fiction, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Thunderball, water, technology, sequelComment

James Cameron: The Abyss (1989)

In The Abyss, his most intimate and idiosyncratic film, James Cameron takes us to the bottom of the ocean in order to discover what it means to be human.

Flash Back, James Cameron, ReviewsAnders BergstromDecember 5, 2022James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, The Abyss, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio, Michael Biehn, science fiction, underwater, AliensComment

James Cameron: Aliens (1986)

Aliens is a deep exploration of the warrior mother as well as a gripping and relentless science-fiction action thriller.

James Cameron: The Terminator (1984)

With The Terminator, James Cameron arrives on the stage as a director in full control of his craft, delivering one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.

Reviews, James Cameron, Flash BackAnders BergstromNovember 30, 2022James Cameron, James Cameron Retrospective, The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, action, science fiction, dystopiaComment

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

The Force Awakens manages to deliver a great deal of the thrills and emotional resonances of Star Wars, but mining the past to build the future always comes with a cost.

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

Twenty years after it launched the Prequel Trilogy, The Phantom Menace remains a pivotal film in both the Star Wars saga and the transformation of global film culture.

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

A rare sequel that goes in a different direction, darker and deeper, The Empire Strikes Back permanently transformed what the Star Wars saga would be.

The Matrix: The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded has aged much better than you might think, a playful and ambitious film full of breathtaking action and real emotional stakes.

The Matrix, ReviewsAnders BergstromMay 3, 2019The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, Lily Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, science fiction, action, martial arts, sequel, 2003, Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Hugo Weaving, Laurence FishburneComment

The Matrix: The Animatrix (2003)

The Animatrix expanded the possibilities of the world the Wachowskis created, paying homage to the influence of Japanese animation on the series in the process.

Reviews, The MatrixAnders BergstromApril 12, 2019The Matrix, The Animatrix, anime, animation, science fiction, Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski, Kōji Morimoto, Shin’ichirô Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Peter Chung, retrospectiveComment

Christmas: Children of Men (2006)

Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men may seem like an unlikely Christmas movie, but this dystopian vision gets at the heart of the Christmas story.

Christmas, ReviewsAnders BergstromDecember 14, 2018Christmas, science fiction, dystopia, Alfonso Cuaron, Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine, Danny Huston, children, nativityComment

David Cronenberg: eXistenZ (1999)

In the summer of The Matrix David Cronenberg made another virtual reality film that continued his explorations of bodies and technology, challenging our notions of the flesh and machine.