Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

The Adventures of Harry Potter during his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It looks like a secret vault within Hogwarts has been opened, and the monster within is after any wizard who has non-wizard parents. Harry has been warned he’s in danger, but many at the school suspect that he is the

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

The Adventures of Harry Potter during his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) finds himself mysteriously chosen as a fourth competitor in the very dangerous TriWizard Tournament, even though he is too young and there should be only three.  He must survive three challenges, and determine who submitted his

The Host {Gwoemul} (2006)

The Host {Gwoemul} (2006)

Gang-Du is a lazy, dim-wit that works, occasionally, at his father’s riverside snack bar.  His younger brother is an angry alcoholic and his sister is a weak-willed archery champion.  The one success of the family is Gang-Du’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Hyun-Seo.  On a day like any other, a giant mutated fish-salamander rises out of the river,

It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)

It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)

A military sub is grabbed deep underwater by something unknown. Doctor John Carter (Donald Curtis) and Doctor Leslie Joyce (Faith Domergue) determine that the culprit is a giant octopus, altered by radiation. While the military search for the beast, Carter and  Commander Pete Matthews (Kenneth Tobey) vie for the affections of Joyce. For several generations,

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

In order to prove the gods are on his side in a battle with the usurping King Pelias, Jason (Todd Armstrong, voice: Tim Turner) gathers the finest athletes of Greece and heads out to take the legendary golden fleece.  Aided by the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman), the powerful Hercules (Nigel Green), the ship builder Argos

King Kong (1933)

King Kong (1933)

Egomaniacal filmmaker Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong) plans to make his next picture on a mysterious island. When no actress will take such a dangerous job, Denham picks homeless Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) off the street, and the next day they are at sea. The island is home to a degenerate tribe that lives behind a

King Kong Lives (1986)

King Kong Lives (1986)

Beauty didn’t kill the beast, she only broke his heart.  After a year in a coma, grumpy, ape-heart surgeon Amy Franklin (Linda Hamilton) is ready to replace King Kong’s damaged pump with an artificial one, but needs plasma.  Coincidently, adventurer Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin) finds a giant female gorilla in Borneo, and soon the recuperating Kong

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

A nuclear sub crashes into an iceberg, freeing Godzilla, who heads to Tokyo.  Meanwhile, a buffoonish pharmaceutical executive sends two agents to a tropical island where they discover King Kong.  When Kong drugs himself on narcotic berry juice, the nitwits decide to bring him back to Japan (just assuming that the drug will keep him

Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)

Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)

Hot, bikini-clad, marine archeologist Nicole (Victoria Pratt) and her team of hot babe Jenny (Kristi Angus) and traitorous Michael (Cory Monteith) search for an ancient Greek Opal.  She’s apposed by Greek gangster Maxwell Odemus (Jack Scalia) and a giant squid.  Luckily, she’s joined by a squid-hunter with a score to settle  (Charlie O’Connell). I hate it

The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

The Land That Time Forgot (1975)

The surviving crew and passengers from a British ship, including the captain (Keith Barron), an American adventurer and submarine expert (Doug McClure), and a female biologist (Susan Penhaligon), take over the German sub that attacked them.  Multiple events conspire to strand all of the occupants on a lost continent where dinosaurs and cavemen coexist.  The

Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Sleazy promoter Max O’Hara (Robert Armstrong) travels to a stage-bound Africa in search of special acts for his new nightclub. He finds Mighty Joe Young, a giant gorilla, and his teenaged human friend, Jill Young (Terry Moore). With a little fancy talking, he persuades Jill to come to America where he uses her and Joe

One Million BC (1940)

One Million BC (1940)

Tumak (a chest-shaven Victor Mature) gets kicked out of the perpetually grumpy Rock tribe by its perpetually grumpy leader (Lon Chaney Jr.) and floats down the river to be found by the ubbermen (and women) of the shell tribe.  Loana (Carole Landis), the local hotty who has invented hair care, takes a liking to this