For many, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) is the forgotten middle child of the Pierce Brosnan era of James Bond movies. Neither as loved as…
Ethan Hunt (Cruise), retired from active duty and recently engaged to the lovely Julia (Monaghan), returns to action when an IMF agent he trained…
The James Bond franchise has long offered memorable opening pre-title sequence and the Daniel Craig-era Bond films are no different: Skyfall opens with a…
Thor: Ragnarok could've stopped after the cold open and audiences would've gone home feeling like they'd watched the greatest fantasy movie since Return of…
Blade (1998) was the first really successful Marvel movie, long before Iron Man, The Avengers, Spider-Man, and even before X-Men. The Stephen Norrington-directed action…
Commando from 1985 was directed by Mark L. Lester and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Vernon Wells, Bill Duke, and Dan…
The opening scene has to introduce the audience to the world of the movie, flesh out at least the main character and his or…
“Rosebud” is one of the most famous lines in movie history, but it is not the only memorable aspect of this scene. Citizen Kane…
The Star Wars saga of movies isn't short on memorable opening sequences. The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and The Last Jedi…
"The Wolverine” from 2013, is the sixth film of the X-men series. A quick recap; Logan (Hugh Jackman), a.k.a Wolverine is an almost immortal…
The sprawling crime opera The Godfather is one of the most popular fictional stories of the 20th century. It tells the tale of Don…
A lot of superlatives have been attached to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now, it's every bit as mesmerizing, trippy, and…
On March 3, 1969, the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. In 1986, they made…
The opening scene for Contact is a wonderful illustration of the principle that distance (and motion) is equivalent to time. The speed of any…
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg developed the base concept for Raiders of the Lost Ark back in 1977, just as Star Wars was being…
'The Fifth Element' was filmed by Luc Besson in 1996 at the Studio “Gaumont”. It world premiere at the Cannes film festival May 7,…
12 Monkeys was a 1995 dystopian sci-fi film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. The film was a remake of…
