Super 8
U/A; Sci-fi, Drama
Dir: J J Abrams
Cast: Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard
Rating: * * * (out of 5)

It would be too easy to call Super 8 a tribute to early Steven Spielberg movies, such as E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Named after the film format that introduced nearly every filmmaker that lived in the '70s (including Spielberg and, subsequently, Abrams as well) to movie making, it also owes a fair amount of its aesthetic to modern monster movies like Cloverfield as well as the earliest M Night Shyamalan films.