The government resurrects Vietnam-era soldiers as cyborgs for dangerous missions. However, their memories are not completely wiped and two of the ‘Unisols’ begin reliving the past, where one was a psychotic killer (Dolph Lundgren), and the other a hero (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Quick Review: If you are going to make a robot out of a
A sequel to 1992’s Universal Soldier, ex-cyborg soldier, Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), must stop the next generation of powerful “Unisols” and the renegade computer (Michael Jai White) that leads them. Stating my bias clearly: there are no good Van Damme movies. But a few of them don’t completely suck. A few are fun. This
After villagers start turning up dead, drained of blood, the burgermeister declares it must be a vampire. Local policeman Karl Brettschneider (Melvyn Douglas) disagrees, looking for a human killer. Only Brettschneider’s girlfriend, Ruth Bertin (Fay Wray) and the greatly respected Dr. Otto von Niemann (Lionel Atwill) have avoided the hysteria. The mob blames feebleminded Herman
Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) travels to Transylvania to defeat Dracula (Richard Roxburgh). He joins up with Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale), whose family has fought Dracula for centuries, and they find themselves surrounded by vampires, werewolves, the Frankenstein Monster (Shuler Hensley), and assorted other evils. What do you get when you combine exceptionally skilled filmmakers, a
In the small village of Midwich, every person collapses, unconscious, for four hours. Later, it’s found that every fertile woman in town became pregnant in those lost hours. All give birth simultaneously to blond-haired babies with strange eyes. As the children develop mental powers, Gordon Zellaby (George Sanders), a scientist whose wife, Anthea (Barbara Shelley),
All of the residents of a rural American village black out, waking hours later with ten of the women pregnant. Dr. Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve) informs the families that tests show the fetuses are healthy, and Dr. Susan Verner (Kirstie Alley), representing the government, offers them money to have the babies. However, after they are born,
The crew of a sea-going tug, including Captain Robert Everton (Donald Sutherland), Kelly Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis), and Steve Baker (William Baldwin), find a derelict Russian science ship and claim it as salvage. Unfortunately for them, an electrical alien lifeform is onboard, creating robots and human-robot hybrids to start on its quest to wipeout mankind.
Gangsters assassinate a judge and frame an ex-con, John Ellman (Boris Karloff). Two witnesses are too frightened to testify until it is too late and he is electrocuted, but fanatic scientist Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) resurrects him. Ellman comes back without his memory, but with knowledge of who is responsible for his death. Soon, the
The continuing adventures of space station Gamma 1, Commander Mike Halstead (Tony Russel), his sidekick, Jack (Franco Nero), and his spirited girl, Connie (Lisa Gastoni). In this second movie, alien light clouds are taking over Earth’s space stations, and it is up to our plucky heroes to save the day. Ah, things are still groovy in
Based on the H.G. Well’s Novel, Martians invade Earth, easily defeating all opposition. Scientist Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) attempts to help in the fight, but soon finds himself trapped with Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson), just trying to stay alive. Ever notice how scientists are expected to know everything in films? The “meteor” hits and
Unstoppable alien invaders attack Earth in giant tripod war machines. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), a divorced man and uninvolved father, attempts to keep his two children Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and Rachel (Dakota Fanning), safe, and take them to their mother. Steven Spielberg sucks all of the meaning out of H.G. Wells’s classic novel, leaving a
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick), a high school underachiever, accidentally hacks into NORAD and challenges the computer to a game of Global Thermonuclear War. The problem is, the computer doesn’t differentiate between a game and the real thing, and it now controls the U.S. nuclear arsenal. I recalled liking WarGames on the big screen back in