Director Tobe Hooper wanted something big to follow up his success on “Poltergeist,” and turned to this lumbering science-fiction thriller that cost plenty and didn’t make a dime. Steve Railsback (“The Stuntman”) stars as a United States astronaut who is the only survivor of a mysterious shuttle disaster. Read the rest of this entry »

As “The Matrix: Revolutions” parades through theaters, it now becomes apparent that creators, Andy and Larry Wachowski, the Emperors of Gucci trench coats and bullet time, have no clothes. They’re working from the same blueprint, perhaps believing that with enough money and visual razzle dazzle they’ll be able to obscure the fact that they’re basically telling the same story. Read the rest of this entry »