Jon Favreau’s CGI remake of the Disney animated classic has the scope of a myth and the playfulness of a folktale. Plus the voices of Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, and Idris Elba.
Brian De Palma directs Al Pacino in this thriller of a Cuban criminal’s rise to the top in the eighties cocaine wars of Florida. It’s a blood-spattered crime opera.
Joseph McBride directs the American remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s nouvelle vague classic, relocated to Los Angeles and seeped in American rebel pop culture.
The 2005 remake of the 1933 classic is an old-fashioned monster movie/jungle thriller pushed to the limits with new technology by a filmmaker with both the skill and the heart to recapture the thrills of his adolescent moviehouse dreams.
The 21st century reboot of the 1980s sci-fi mini-series about first contact is furiously paced with conspiracies, rebels, traitors, family crisis, secret experiments on human subjects, furry creatures devoured, and lots of things blowing up.
