Foster on Film

The new owners of the Paris Opera House are told, after the sale, that there is a ghostly phantom haunting the place. The Phantom sends a threatening note, insisting that young, pretty singer Christine (Mary Phibin) be given the lead part that currently belongs to prima donna Carlotta (Mary Fabian; yes, two actresses with similar

Dr. Tim Mason (Roger Pryor) is at the forefront of frozen therapy, but his demonstration promised more than it could deliver, so he and his nurse/fiancée Judith Blair (Jo Ann Sayers) head to the long abandoned, secluded home of the inventor of frozen therapy, Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff). There, in a hidden underground camber

Mad-scientist Mr. Stendahl (Otto Kruger), with the help of two excessively dim, young assistants, and the film’s love interests, Don (Phil Brown) & Anne (Amelita Ward), has brought a rabbit back to life, and now wants to try and something more complex: Paula/The Ape Woman (Vicky Lane). His hulking henchman Moloch (Rondo Hatton) steals the

Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is an assassin. The mob controls time travel in 2074 and sends their victims back in time to 2044 where Joe and his colleagues shoot them and dispose of the bodies. The final job of each “looper” is to kill his own future self. When Joe comes gun-to-face with himself (Bruce Willis),

Things are bleak on a Scottish island during war times: They’ve run out of whisky. The fishermen are lifeless and miserable, and one elderly inhabitant is dying for lack of a drink. Without Whisky, life is intolerable. When a ship carrying a cargo of bottles of that most desirable liquid ends up on the rocks,

Three respectable gentlemen secretly form their own little hellfire club. Bored with prostitutes and drink, they ask Lord Courtley, a notorious libertine and dabbler in the black arts, to guide them to the next step. That step: To resurrect Dracula from his powdered blood and a few trinkets. When the attempt goes awry, the three

An accident on a colonization ship causes one man (Chris Pratt) to wake from suspended animation ninety years too early. Alone on a luxury liner, with no one to talk to, no hope of returning to stasis, no future, and in a state of suicidal despair, he begins to obsess about one of the sleeping

Photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) arrives in Gotham City to cover the story of the mysterious masked vigilantly know as The Bat. She also meets eccentric millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who has begun his secret crusade against crime as Batman. Shortly thereafter, psychotic killer Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson) falls into a vat of toxic

Oil drilling opens up a path for the underground mole-men to come to the surface. Clark Kent (George Reeves) and Lois Lane (Phyllis Coates) happen to be there when panic breaks out. Are the mole-men a threat, or is the real threat humanity? To get this film, you have to be able to read that

Alton (Jaden Lieberher), a super-powered kid who can’t control his powers, has been kidnapped from a cult by his father Roy Tomlin (Michael Shannon) and his friend Lucas (Joel Edgerton). They take a very, very slow drive through very dark, nowhere roads while pursued by the cult that thinks the child is their salvation and

Super mercenary William (Matt Damon) and his sidekick Tovar (Pedro Pascal) are looking to steal black powder from the mysterious Orient, ending up instead in the custody of the Order, a group of colorfully-armored warriors that man the Great Wall, defending against an endless number of semi-intelligent monsters. Commander Lin (Tian Jing) wants to kill

Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is an unpleasant and unlikable aid to an older magician. Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), who may or may not be unpleasant and unlikable, but becomes so after his wife dies, is a second aid. When the aforementioned wife drowns during a trick, most likely due to Borden’s tying a knot too