Cleveland Cinemas and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History present Total Recall

[Press release from Cleveland Cinemas and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.]

 

The REEL SCIENCE film series, presented by Cleveland Cinemas and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, continues with a screening of the sci-fi action film TOTAL RECALL (1990) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday, August 12^th at 7:00 PM at the Capitol Theatre (1390 W. 65^th St., Cleveland, OH).

 

REEL SCIENCE presents films that do their best to tackle natural science on the silver screen – from stoically serious blockbusters to outrageously campy cult classics – and hear from Cleveland Museum of Natural History experts as they put these movies under the microscope to determine what the filmmakers got right and what would best be classified as “creative license.”

 

Sci-Fi Fest at the Cedar Lee Theatre

[Press release from Cleveland Cinemas.]

 

The Cedar Lee Theatre (2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts) will be treating science-fiction fans to a marathon of classic flicks as atomic monsters and evil aliens return to the big screen. On Saturday May 4, 2013, the theatre will present its first ever SCI-FI FEST as part of the ongoing Melt Bar & Grilled Late Shift series.

“Just as our 12 Hours of Terror marathon at the Capitol Theatre has become an annual event for horror devotees, we’re hoping to do the same for sci-fi fanatics at the Cedar Lee Theatre,” says Dave Huffman, Cleveland Cinemas’ Director of Marketing and programmer for the Melt Bar & Grilled Late Shift. “I love all the films we’re showing and I can’t wait to see them on the big screen.”

Total Recall

Review by Matt Finley

Amid a mess of digital clatter and bang, the trailer for the shiny new TOTAL RECALL asks, “What is real? What is recall?” It seemed to imply that the film’s many narrative omissions – Mars, mutants and Paul Verhoeven’s devilish humor are all M.I.A. -  would be compensated for in intricate storytelling. While there’s some tossed-off adequately Dickian talk about objective and subjective realities, and physical experience versus the mind’s chemical reproduction thereof, the film fumbles the story’s labyrinthine potential into a single, endless corridor of gunfights, car chases and limp political rhetoric.

Limiting its setting to a chemical-ravaged, overpopulated Earth, RECALL splits its time between the world’s two remaining habitable regions: The WASPy, upper-crust United Federation of Britain (UFB for short), and The Colony (Australia), a working class  melting pot comprising the marginalized working class.