...box office receipts, taking in nearly $75 million. It is showing at area theaters. Best-known for "Alien," "Blade Runner" and "Thelma and Louise," all critically and popularly acclaimed hits, Scott takes the audience on a visual cruise...
...well-done, especially a thrilling flying chase through the dizzying nighttime urban caverns of Coruscant, the "Blade Runner"-influenced capital city. But except for a climactic appearance by the venerable Yoda, whose computer-generated...
...Always the next one." A few that come to mind are "Tommy," "Dracula" and "Brother Truckers." Favorite movie: "Blade Runner: The Director's Cut," "The Godfather I & II," the "Alien" films, "Citizen Kane," "His Girl Friday...
...people are familiar with is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - it's assigned in college classes and the movie "Blade Runner" was made from it. Photos Like all of PKD's best work, "Androids" mixes pathetic/sympathetic humans with the...
...Spades to "Monk's" Holmes. Noir can delve into sci-fi and fantasy, from the dystopian future of the movie "Blade Runner" to the back-alley crimes of TV's "Angel." There can be music noir (Mark Snow's score for the 1998 movie...
...multicultural staffed studio is, in fact, located in San Francisco. It's set in an ominous and dehumanized ''Blade Runner''-inspired Hong Kong of the future. The story opens with a world-weary and fugitive young woman stoically awaiting...
...setting, another period of time, with costumes and all that." Ridley Scott, whose films range from "Alien" and "Blade Runner" to "G.I. Jane" and the current "Hannibal," is nominated for the second time, for "Gladiator." His earlier...
...site keeps me up to date on titles that are already out -- for example, I've decided to hold off on picking up "Blade Runner" because the site said a special-edition copy is coming out later this year. PDA Buzz You don't have to be an...
...experienced a live-fire battle, "Black Hawk Down" is the next best thing. In director Ridley ("Alien" and "Blade Runner") Scott's hands, the film is as real as war can get, short of taking and returning fire at close range. But those...
...Elm Street, 12 Monkeys, The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner, while The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens and the Terminator and Lord of the Rings sequels were ditched in favor of the...
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