Jabberwocky Movie Review
Pythonesque chaos prevails in the cartoonish medieval kingdom of King Bruno the Questionable, who rules with cruelty and stupidity.
Sci-Fi Movies - J
Jack the Giant Killer Movie Review
A young farmer joins a medieval princess on a journey to a distant convent.
Jason and the Argonauts Movie Review
Many of Ray Harryhausen's fans consider this to be his finest moment.
Jet Benny Show Movie Review
Steve Norman doesn't look much like comedy legend Jack Benny, but he indeed wears glasses and says “Wellllll….” a lot during this obscure parody of the original Star Wars trilogy, in which Benny, his robot Rochester, and the spaceship The Maxwell assume the Han Solo/Chewbacca/ Millennium Falcon roles, respectively.
Johnny Mnemonic Movie Review
Based on a screenplay by cyberpunk godfather William Gibson (author of cult favorite Neuromancer) and directed by artist Robert Longo (in his first film), this flick could more aptly be called Johnny Moronic. Keanu Reeves plays a high-tech courier of the future, whose brain has been technologically enhanced, allowing him to carry a huge amount of computer information in…
TV on Tape: Johnny Sokko and His Giant Robot Movie Review
Of the various Japanese science-fiction series imported for American television in the ‘60s and ‘70s, few are more beloved than Johnny Sokko and His Giant Robot. Toei Studio's live-action series premiered in the U.S. in 1967, the same year as its Japanese debut, courtesy of AIP-Television. The series consisted of only 26 episodes, repeated over and over on UHF channels until t…
Journey Beneath the Desert Movie Review
Three engineers discover the lost-but-always-found-in-the-movies kingdom of Atlantis when their helicopter's forced down in the sunny Sahara.
Journey to the Center of the Earth Movie Review
Slowly paced adventure may seem a little clunky today but it's a nicely done piece of big-budget studio work.
Journey to the Center of the Earth Movie Review
Aired in TV syndication as a “Famous Classic Tales” special, this generic cartoon stays faithful to Jules Verne's 1864 narrative of subterranean exploration and adventure but is otherwise singularly workmanlike and unimaginative.
Journey to the Center of the Earth Movie Review
Below ‘C’ level bastardization of Jules Verne.
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun Movie Review
From the creators of the classic TV puppet shows Supercar and Thunderbirds comes this unjustly neglected adventure that, like the new planet that inspires the title journey, is worthy of discovery.
Journey to the Seventh Planet Movie Review
Uranus is controlled by a wicked entity in the year 2001.
Judge Dredd Movie Review
A cop who acts as judge, jury, and executioner? Admittedly, they should have let John Milius write and direct, but hell, overall this is a fine film version of the famous cult comic 2000 AD that retains all the spirit of the British strip. Stallone even looks the square-jawed part, and once you get over his slurring of Dredd's most noted line – “I am the law!” – …
Jurassic Park Movie Review
Michael Crichton's spine-tingling thriller translates well (but not entirely faithfully) to the big screen due to its main attraction: realistic, rampaging dinosaurs. A rich industrialist (Richard Attenborough) plans to open a theme park whose attraction is genetically cloned dinosaurs hatched from prehistoric DNA. When an unscrupulous technician (Seinfeld…