Home Alone (1990)

"It's happening."

Do you believe in miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

All these questions and more will be answered in this week's episode, as we make further contact and revisit the sci-fi thriller-horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.... SIGNS, starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix!!

Imagine not feeling safe inside your own home. What would you do if your family's safety was suddenly at risk by invaders from another world.

We know what we would do! So join us as we find out if Signs is just another run of the mill alien invasion flick, or if it's for real and if it continues to unsettle and creep us out after 20 years!

“There's a monster outside my room. Can I have a glass of water?”

“The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space."

Did you ever look up at the stars in the nighttime sky and wonder what else, or who else, might be out there?

Well that’s just one of many exciting and controversial questions our characters are forced to face this week, in a little 1997 Robert Zemeckis-directed sci-fi drama based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan, Contact, starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey!

So join us as we journey to the stars to find out if Contact is an overlong preachy science fiction bore that overstays, or if it makes us want to journey through the universe by effectively shutting down the naysayers with its accurate science and healthy balance of controversial themes to prove that we’re not in fact alone in the vastness of the cosmos!!

"I'm okay to go!"

"He went from dad bod to God bod!"

Welcome back to another intergalactic, super hammering, Space Viking, God slaying, and rockin’ fun episode of THE FILM SNARKS!!!

The wait is FINALLY over, for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the God of Thunder have returned with the cosmic Norse God’s fourth solo outing with the hotly anticipated Thor: Love & Thunder!!

He might be over 1,500 years old, but Thor can always be counted on as your friendly universe Space Viking, and it's about damn time we get another outing with him!

So join us as we watch the God of Thunder figure out who he really is as we find out if Thor: Love & Thunder justifies its existence or not as the first ever MCU fourth solo outing for one of its main characters!

"Another classic Thor Adventure!"

"I'm not a murderer. I've never even met the man I'm supposed to kill."

Welcome back to another heavily invasive, eye scanning, precognitive, and totally murder-free episode of THE FILM SNARKS!!!

What would you do if you were accused of a crime (or murder) you had not committed yet?

That is the very quandary Tom Cruise finds himself in this week, in a little 2002 science fiction  thriller, that was well-reviewed at the time of release and has gone on to be on many Top Films Lists in the two decades since,

And that is Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report!

Everybody runs in this futuristic thriller!

So join us as we run from the law to prove our innocence and find out if Minority Report, At age 20, is just another run of the mill action SciFi, or if it's an underrated, well-paced and well-aged Blockbuster experience that also serves as a scarily accurate vision of a possible future not that far off!

"The system is perfect."

" You no trouble. Me... Fifth element... supreme being... me protect you."

Welcome back to another futuristic, hover-cab drivin’, multi-passin’, and cheerfully crazy head trippin’ episode of THE FILM SNARKS!!!

This week, we’re taking a little break from the Summer Blockbusters and new releases to revisit a little 1990’s sci-fi action film starring Bruce Willis, which just turned 25, that has become something of a modern classic nowadays,

None other than The Fifth Element… which MUST be found!!

So join us as we travel into the future to find out if The Fifth Element “ is a  misfired European attempt to make an American-style sci-fi spectacular that should’ve ended up in a Walmart bargain bin, or if it's still one of the great goofy movies that was ahead of its time, that deserves to be viewed as a cult classic in the 25 years since!!

"Wanna Play It Hard? Let's Play It Hard."

"Good morning, aviators! This is your captain speaking. Today's exercise is dogfighting!"

The wait is FINALLY OVER!!

Top Gun: Maverick is here and it is SPECTACULAR!!!

So welcome back to the Danger Zone! It’s been 36 years since the original Top Gun took to the skies, broke all the rules and made real life Naval Aviators rock stars overnight.

And with the long-awaited and much-delayed sequel now in theaters, was it worth the wait?

You bet your ass it was! In every way imaginable!!

So join us as we tear through the furious skies at 10 Gs to find out just how high in the stratosphere Top Gun: Maverick  flies!!

Happy Memorial Day everyone!

"It's not the plane. It's the pilot."

"I Feel The Need... The Need For Speed!"

Welcome back to another rule breaking, high octane, sweat-inducing, and testosterone driven episode of THE FILM SNARKS!!!

Next week marks the triumphant return to the screen of Hollywood’s real life daredevil flying ace, Tom friggin’ Cruise… in the long-belated but still much anticipated, Top Gun: Maverick, which we will be covering.

But before we get there, we take to the friendly and furious skies back to the mid-80s with the original 1986 film, Top Gun, as we patiently await the return of the long-delayed sequel.

So rev up the engines, rally your wingman, and join us as we enter the Danger Zone to find out if Top Gun, has lost that lovin’ feeling, or if it still makes us wanna hit Mach 3 and keep up that need for speed!!

"You can be by wingman anytime!"

"No. It is Doctor Strange. Not Master Strange, not Mr. Strange. Doctor Strange."

Welcome back to another mystifying, body-healing, dimension-altering, and universe colliding episode of THE FILM SNARKS!!!

Do you believe that we are made of matter and nothing more?

Would you also believe if I had told you 14 years ago, a band of lesser known B, C, and even D-list comic book characters would go on to share a vast cinematic universe to become the most profitable movie franchise in history?

Well such is the case for one of those previously lesser known comic book characters, Sorcerer Supreme, Master of the Mystic Arts, and protector of our reality…  Dr. Stephen Strange!

And this week marks the return of the grumpy wizard, with the hotly anticipated and much-hyped sequel, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness, which is finally in theaters!

So join us as we desecrate reality as we know it to out if the MCU's latest is a nightmarish mess that leaves little else to be desired with the Master of the Mystic Arts following it, or if it was  worth the wait as one of the best-realized MCU offerings, as a legit horror film, that opens new doors for the wider MCU in future films!!

“Every night I dream the same dream. And then… the nightmare begins.”

"The Force is strong with him."

Welcome back to another space faring, Force-dueling, and trilogy defining episode of THE FILM SNARKS!!!

With the Multiverse  upon us, where endless possibilities exist, and in celebration of perhaps the nerdiest day of the year, May the 4th Be With You, aka Intergalactic Star Wars Day, just as we did last year with the original Star Wars (1977), we journey back a long time ago in a galaxy far far away with what is considered the BEST film of the entire saga, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back!!

And joining us once more is our good friend, fellow snark, and loyal listener!

So strap in, fire up those hyperdrive engines, and journey with us as we find out if Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back is just overrated space opera entertainment that suffers from middle child syndrome as the second part of a beloved trilogy, or it is THE best of all nine Star Wars films, that deserves every recognition, ranking, and accolade its received over the last 42 years!!

"Do, or do not. There is no try."

“The game is tailored specifically to each participant. Think of it as a great vacation, except you don't go to it, it comes to you.”

Welcome back to another birthday celebrating, life-changing, and intricately elaborate episode of THE FILM SNARKS!!

Life can be dull and repetitive. And it's so easy to wave one's birthday off as just another day.

But what do you get a man who has everything for his birthday?

A life and literal game-changing elaborate experience! And that’s exactly the scenario that our protagonist finds himself in with this week’s film, The Game, a little 1997 American thriller directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas!

So join us as we choose to play and find out if  David Fincher’s The Game is a needlessly complicated, improbable mess requiring too much suspension of disbelief, or if it's still a thrilling film-going edge of your seat experience that  rewards the viewer for participating in its elaborate shenanigans!!

“I was drugged and left for dead in Mexico - and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.”