Synopsis
In Los Angeles of the year 2019, the Tyrell Corporation leads robot design with the “Replicant,” a being virtually identical to a human, but superior in strength. After a mutiny in an off-world […]
Entries from March 2008
Blade Runner (1982)
March 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Alternate universe · Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Femme fatale · Interrogation · Man vs. machine
Testament (1983)
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Synopsis
In the town of “Hamlin,” Tom Wetherly (William Devane) presses his 12-year-old son Brad (Ross Harris) to keep up with him on their morning bicycle ride. Tom’s teenage daughter Mary Liz (Roxanne Zal) adores […]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · End of the world · Mother/daughter relationship · Mother/son relationship
Donnie Darko (2001)
March 25th, 2008 · 11 Comments
Synopsis
Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes to find himself in the middle of a road overlooking “Middlesex,” Virginia. Over dinner, his older sister (Maggie Gyllenhaal) stuns their father (Holmes Osborne) with the news that she’s voting for Dukakis. Brother and […]
Tags: Ambiguous ending · Cult favorite · End of the world · High school · No opening credits · Paranoia · Psychoanalysis
The Dead Zone (1983)
March 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments
Synopsis
In a New England town, schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) takes his fellow faculty member and girlfriend Sarah Bracknell (Brooke Adams) to an amusement park after school. Johnny […]
Tags: Based on novel · Crooked officer · Dreams and visions · End of the world · Psycho killer · Psychoanalysis
