The Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg’s body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly.
Jeff Goldblum
This archive gathers the films featuring Jeff Goldblum reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Independence Day (1996)”, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978, 1993, 2007)”, “Jurassic Park (1993)”, “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)”, “The Fly (1986)”, and “Thor: Ragnarok (2017)” — 6 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Jeff Goldblum serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978, 1993, 2007)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers exists in four major film versions across fifty-one years, each of which reflects the political anxieties of its era while…
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Buckaroo Banzai is one of the strangest films Twentieth Century Fox released in the 1980s and one of the most beloved cult artifacts of that decade. W. D…
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day is the alien invasion film that defined what summer blockbusters could be in the late 1990s. Roland Emmerich directed. Dean Devlin…
Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park is the film that redefined what visual effects could do and one of the foundational science fiction productions of the 1990s. Steven…
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) — Review
Funny but stupid. Taika Waititi’s tonal pivot that broke the Thor character and signaled the MCU’s slide into decorative comedy. Thor: Ragnarok at 6/10.