It is 1925 Damascus, and the Syrian insurrection is attempting to throw out the French. Harry Smith (Humphrey Bogart) sells weapons and feeds off the misery. In a restaurant, he meets the beautiful, shallow, and manipulative Violette (Märta Torén), the mistress of Col. Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), the only French representative who would like a
Emotionally broken, child psychologist, Malcolm Crow (Bruce Willis) attempts to help disturbed Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), who is showing symptoms much like those of his greatest failure. Malcolm is shaken when it turns out Cole’s problem is that he sees ghosts all around him. Quick Review: If you haven’t seen this, and avoided hearing
This is a review of a “Fan Edit.” Details of the original film, including twists and the ending, may be revealed. One of the first “all-blue screen” films, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a wonder of technology and art design. An homage to the adventure serials of the 1930s (although its look
Strange, silent Angela (Felissa Rose), whose family died in a boating accident, is sent to camp with her cousin. A murderer is also at the camp who takes out campers and counselors in typical Slasher fashion. What is the killer’s motive and what is the connection to Angela? Quick Review: We’re in pure D-movie Slasher territory, and within
Angela (Pamela Springsteen) is a happy but puritanical councilor at Camp Rolling Hills, a summer camp with a lot of overage attendees. She likes nice girls, and when girls aren’t nice, she kills them. Realizing that the quirky Sleepaway Camp could not be repeated, the filmmakers took a different rout, using the standard camp Slasher story
Peppy psycho killer Angela (Pamela Springsteen) returns to camp to massacre campers who aren’t nice enough, and no one is nice enough for Angela. This time it’s Camp New Horizons, run by Herman and Lily Miranda (Michael J. Pollard, Sandra Dorsey). The campers are a mix of rich brats and underprivileged delinquents, but Angela makes
Mary and Charles Brady (Alice Krige, Brian Krause) are a mother and son team of shape-changing sleepwalkers, vampiric creatures that feed on virgins. New to a small town, Mary is hungry and Charles has chosen Tanya (Mädchen Amick) as their meal. Do you remember drive-in movies? Simple pictures that were fun, if silly, and just right for
Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders. There he discovers secret plots, a beautiful girl (Christina Ricci), and stories of a headless horseman (Christopher Walken). But the horseman isn’t a legend, but a ghost, and he has more heads to chop off before he’s done. Quick Review:
Matt and Jean Spencer (Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna), a young, financially challenged, city couple, inherit a dilapidated cinema in a small town. Working with a good-natured solicitor (Leslie Phillips), they attempt to sell it to a wealthy local businessman (Francis De Wolff) who wants the spot for a parking lot, but he decides to
With the ice caps mysteriously melting and a Himalayan outpost destroyed, Commander Rod Jackson (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart aka Jack Stuart) and his sidekick, Frank (Renato Baldini), are sent to investigate. Joined by plucky Lisa Nielson (Ombretta Colli), they discover that blue, hairy snowmen from outer space are planning to invade the Earth. Ah, another Italian tale
Baron Wolf Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), the son of the late doctor Frankenstein, travels to “Middle Europe,” with his wife Elsa (Josephine Hutchinson) and son Peter (Donnie Dunagan), to take possession of the family castle. Like his father, he is a scientist and experimenter, and he has a fanatical desire to prove that his father was
Stan Marsh (voice: Trey Parker), Kyle Broflovski (voice: Matt Stone), Kenny McCormick (voice: Matt Stone), and Eric Cartman (voice: Trey Parker) take a trip to Nebraska to visit Eric’s relatives at Christmastime. Eric’s jailed uncle chooses this time to escape along with Charles Manson. When none of the other adults will take the boys to