Independence Day

An all-star cast battles it out with hostile extraterrestrials intent upon destroying the Earth over the Fourth of July weekend in the laser-blasting, brain-rattling, space-jamming summer blockbuster to end all summer blockbusters, Independence Day, this year celebrating its 30th anniversary of saving the planet! July 2nd. Strange phenomena begin to appear around the globe. The skies ignite. Satellite communications are down. Terror races through the world’s major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude from beyond the stars has arrived; its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend! Over the course of the next three days, the world will be changed forever. The countdown to the end of the world has begun. Independence Day, once a joyous day of freedom and celebration, will now become the day when humanity gets blown to smithereens. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances. But can even Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Randy Quaid, Vivica A. Fox, Robert Loggia and Bill Pullman as the President of the United States take back our Independence from the nasty, slimy, freedom-hating creatures from another world? One guess! (Dir. by Roland Emmerich, 1996, USA, 145 mins., Rated PG-13)