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.
A rich industrialist’s plan to build an island resort runs into trouble when the only member of his survey team to return is in a zombie-like state. Not wanting superstition to ruin his project, he calls in skeptical journalist Phillip Knight (Boris Karloff) to lead a team back to the island. Knight insists on taking
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
Cheese enthusiast and inventor Wallace (Peter Sallis – voice), and his much put upon dog, Gromit, run a humane pest control service, saving the local’s “veg” from rabbits. Things are looking up when they are hired by Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter), though her less humane suitor, Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes), is less than thrilled.
A giant, shaggy, green humanoid is rising out of the sea to lunch on unsuspecting humans. Due to their previous work, Dr. Paul Stewart (Russ Tamblyn) and his assistant Akemi (Kumi Mizuno) are called in to help find, and perhaps kill the monster. As the military moves in, Paul and Akemi attempt to prove that
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
In the future, when the Earth is covered by water, a loner (Kevin Costner) traveling the seas on his sailboat, makes a deal with a resident of a floating village to take her (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and a child (Tina Majorino) to safely. He doesn’t know the child is being hunted by Deacon (Dennis Hopper) and
A group of students visit David Lincoln’s (David Warner) mysterious wax museum where each monster-filled exhibit can take victims into its world. When all eighteen exhibits have killed, the monsters will come alive in the real world, destroying it. Only two of the students, Mark Loftmore (Zach Galligan) and Sarah Brightman (Deborah Foreman), can stop Lincoln’s evil
Three escapees from Devil’s Island (Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov) intend to rob a store, but end up acting as angels for the store-keeper and his family over Christmas. However, these angels are more Old Testament than New. Why is this movie forgotten? Directed by Michael Curtiz (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca), my