James Cameron’s scrappy, low budget time travel thriller made a star of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays an unstoppable cyborg from the future. It was a hit that launched a franchise, thanks to the triumph of energy and ingenuity over budget.
Kathryn Bigelow directs this feral mix of vampire thriller and modern western about a ferocious clan that travels the backroads of the American Southwest.
Philip Kaufman story of the original NASA astronauts is *the* American epic of the last great frontier and a genuinely romantic take on the first generation of space cowboys.