Foster on Film

Jane Falbury (Judy Garland) is trying to make a go of her failing farm while mostly ignoring her wealthy longtime fiancé, Orville (Eddie Braken), when her flighty actress sister (Gloria DeHaven) shows up with an acting troop that includes Joe D. Ross (Gene Kelly) and sidekick Herb (Phil Silvers). Joe is under the impression that

French officer Hector Servadac (Cesare Danova) and Irish soldier of fortune Michael Denning (Sean McClory) are about to duel to the death when a comet sweeps them up. On it’s last trip around the sun the comet had picked up prehistoric animals, leaving the two modern men in a world of stock footage and hot

In 1830s London, Sweeney Todd (Tod Slaughter) has carved out a successful career by murdering men fresh off ships, splitting the funds they carry with Mrs Lovatt (Stella Rho) who runs the bakery next door. He’s set his mind in a less bloody way on the beautiful Johanna (Eve Lister), daughter of wealthy ship-owner Stephen

A maniac is killing people, and attaching news clipping to their bodies. Those news clipping must be an important plot point… Nope. Never mind. Anyway, the Maniac is of little interest to Professor Arthur Hornsby (George Meeker), who has discovered a secret formula which allows a person to survive in suspended animation. At his lab

Successful author William Magee (Gene Raymond) makes a bet that he can finish a novel in 24 hours and heads to a secluded lodge, that’s closed for the winter season, to do so. The timid caretakers meet him there and give him the only key to the place before leaving. He adjourns to a room

Col. Walters (Burton Churchill) and his Sphinx Club of Amateur sleuths is responsible for the arrest of a member of the evil Crooked Circle. The black-hooded members of the Circle choose their only female member as their assassin to avenge themselves on the Colonel tonight when he and other members of his club are staying

Dr. Maximiliano Renan (Ramón Pereda) will do anything to save his dying and paralyzed wife, and as he’s a mad scientist, complete with hunch-backed assistant (Enrique Gonce), his methods involve strange experiments on young women. His attempts with the recently deceased failed, so now he’s taken to kidnapping women from the hospital, who then die

Captain Blood marked the beginning of the golden age of Swashbucklers (yes, every genre has an era known as its golden age; just go with it).  Before it, the complications in recording sound while filming the movement inherent in the genre made these films impractical.  Sure, a silent Douglas Fairbanks could leap off a mast, but sound swashbuckling

Mike is released from the insane asylum he’s been in since the first film and immediately Reggie’s family is killed. That means it’s time for revenge. The two set off on a road trip, from cemetery to cemetery, with Mike’s dreams of a girl in need of their help as their guide, searching for The

Arrogant surgeon Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) damages his hands in a car accident and in desperation travels to the far East for mystical healing. There he finds The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and her sorcerer acolytes who defend the world from magical threats. The threat of the moment is from a rogue sorcerer (Mads Mikkelsen)

The arrival of twelve spaceships causes worldwide panic. Linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) are brought into a military team tasked with determining what the aliens want. Each day they can enter a ship and confront the mutli-tentacled aliens behind a glass wall and try and work out some form

On Krypton, the stupidest world in the universe, the effete elite are busy not noticing that the planet is about to implode. Enter Zod (a scenery-chewing Michael Shannon), freedom fighter, to bring power back to the people. Hey, this could get interesting. Nope, never mind. He’s a Nazi who also is busy ignoring the upcoming