Oblivion (2013)
Oblivion is Joseph Kosinski's 2013 American science fiction film and one of the stronger entries in Tom Cruise's late science fiction cycle. The work is more thoughtful than Cruise's late action filmography typically allows.
Filming Location: Iceland
Films in this library shot in Iceland, a landscape used whenever a film needs somewhere that does not look like earth. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
HawaiiDie Another Day (2002)
2002 Lee Tamahori Bond film with Brosnan's final outing. North Korea, invisible Aston Martin, Halle Berry, CGI surfing.
CaliforniaA View to a Kill (1985)
A View to a Kill is John Glen's 1985 British spy film. The work represents Moore's final Bond appearance at age fifty-seven and the weakest late Moore Bond entry.
British ColumbiaDr. Strangelove (1964)
Kubrick's 1964 Cold War satire. Sellers in three roles, Scott as Buck Turgidson.
CaliforniaIndependence Day (1996)
Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
ChinaLara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Patrick Massett and John Zinman wrote. The film made approximately two hundred and seventy-five million dollars worldwide on a one hundred and fifteen million dollar budget.
IcelandDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Honor Among Thieves is the rare studio fantasy film that knows what it is and commits to it without apology. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.
CaliforniaLetters from Iwo Jima (2006) Review
Clint Eastwood's Japanese-language masterpiece. Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi.
AtlantaCaptain America: Civil War (2016) Review
The Phase 3 inflection point where moral clarity became moral confusion. Spider-Man and Black Panther's introductions as franchise expansion vehicles.
IcelandThor: The Dark World (2013) Review
Christopher Eccleston wasted as Malekith. The first MCU film that feels like industrial franchise routine.
IcelandThe Fifth Element (1997) Review
The Fifth Element is a perfect film. Not a perfect science fiction film, not a perfect action film, a perfect film, period.
IcelandPrometheus (2012) Review
Prometheus wastes one of the most visually gifted directors in contemporary cinema on a script that requires its characters to be catastrophically stupid. These are supposedly the best scientists humanity could assemble for a trillion-dollar mission to find humanity's creators.