Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton
Second Viewing
Synopsis: A rescue team is called in after a group of colonists find themselves under attack from a recently-hatched group of aliens.

I’d seen both of the first two Alien films before watching them for this blog, but it had been a while and my memory [...]

Directed by: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielson
Third or Fourth Viewing
Synopsis: Disaster strikes on an airplane when food poisoning takes out all the pilots in this madcap spoof film.
I’ve been a fan of this movie for a while, though it’s been a few years since I’ve seen it — [...]

Directed by: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Second Viewing
Synopsis: Neo-Tokyo, 2019 — a government agency experiments with giving children psionic powers, with potentially deadly results.
I’ve actually been meaning to revisit this movie for a while. I originally watched Akira a few years back — it was one of the first animated films [...]