James Cameron’s 1989 sci-fi thriller The Abyss was removed from Disney+ in the U.K. this week due to belated concerns over its depiction of animal abuse. The movie includes a scene where a rat is ...

James Cameron’s 1989 underwater sci-fi flick The Abyss featured a scene in which a panicking rat was plunged into oxygen-rich liquid. It was a sequence that proved so controversial at the time that ...

Movies like The Abyss present smart science fiction with a great mystery, in some cases underwater and in others in the deep trenches of space. Out of all James Cameron's films, The Abyss seems to be ...

Jay Liu is a writer and critic of film and culture hailing from the embattled city of Hong Kong. He was chosen twice to lead the official Cannes Classics x USC School of Cinematic Arts partnership, ...