With its story and its screenplay written by none-other-than James Cameron, Strange Days is director Kathryn Bigelow (K19: The Widowmaker) vision of a beautiful dystopian Los Angeles on the precipice of the turn of the millennium where violence is everywhere, the police are out in force like something in Bosnia or Northern Ireland with full-on [...]
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Terry Gilliam’s 1995 Twelve Monkeys went largely unnoticed by most of the cinema-going public, but contains one of the best performances of Brad Pitt’s career and one of the best and most original performances in, at that time, Bruce Willis‘ career. Also starring Madeleine Stowe, Twelve Monkeys is the story of a man named James [...]
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This is a pretty original concept that is effectively put on-screen. In the very near future, this movie shows an in-progress apocalypse in which all of the world except the United Kingdom has fallen because women are no longer able to get pregnant. It’s refreshing that the film-makers make no effort whatsoever [...]
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