Captain Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson) takes the ship Mary Celeste on a sea voyage to England and has decided to bring along his new wife, Sarah (Shirley Grey). He should have spent more time gathering a proper crew as his current one includes a sadistic first mate (Edmund Willard), the mysterious Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi)
In London, Sir Percy Blakeney (David Niven) is an effete loudmouth and fool, but in France he is the heroic Scarlet Pimpernel, who frees the innocent from the worst excesses of the French Revolution. His adversary is Chauvelin (Cyril Cusack), who will stop at nothing to attain the Pimpernel’s head or torch him or shoot
Timid and distracted Dr. Carl Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish) is accused of murdering a woman, and an inquest is called. Fletcher, animal trainer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone), and his wife Dorothy (Martha Vickers) testify that Cheela the gorilla survived the bullet wound and has been kept by Fletcher. After a time Cheela disappeared and Paula
In a faraway island, scientists experimenting with radioactive weather control (yes, you heard that correctly, radioactive weather control) accidentally cause huge praying mantises to grow into humongous praying mantises. The big bugs unearth and break open an egg and out pops a toad man… I mean a baby Godzilla. The full size Godzilla shows up, so the
A Few Thoughts Carmen: “You’re not very tall are you? Marlowe “Well, I try to be.” There, less than three minutes into the film, and it’s clear that something special is going on. This is no cheap detective thriller. This is art. Normally, a review would include some general plot synopsis at this point, but
In the non-groovy past, a de-Jewified Larry Van Helsing (really? Larry? Not Abraham) and Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) both die—a scene that breaks with past films, but Hammer was never consistent. An unknown person wandering by grabs a vial of the Count’s blood, which pops up again in 1972. In that swinging time, some hippies,
An Imperial pilot (Riz Ahmed) has defected with news of a new super weapon called The Death Star — good name. The rebellion needs the information the pilot has as well as to stop the lead weapons-maker (Mads Mikkelsen), so they free Jyn (Felicity Jones), the weapons-maker’s daughter, from imperial custody and send her with
Master Gau, along with his two bumbling assistants, Man Choi and Chou Sheng, are asked to rebury the patriarch of the Yam family in order to generate good luck, but the patriarch turns out to be a vampire and breaks free. Gau, and in his own way, the dim, obnoxious police captain, attempt to destroy
Batman (Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton) faces both Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and The Riddler (Jim Carrey). As Bruce Wayne, he finds himself guardian of recently orphaned Dick Grayson (Chris O’Donnell), who naturally gets himself a costume and becomes Robin. At least Alfred (Michael Gough) is still around. With Burton out of the directing chair,
Murderer Cal Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is taken by a secret organization of Templars to their lab run by Rikkin (Jeremy Irons). There, Rikkin’s daughter Sofia will use scientific hocus pocus to regress Lynch to his past life as the Assassin Aguilar (still Michael Fassbender). Sofia hopes to find the Apple of Eden, a MacGuffin that
Robin (Barrie Ingham)—this time a Norman and named “de Courtenay” instead of “Loxley”—is framed for the murder of his cousin by his other cousin (Peter Plythe). He escapes to the woods with Friar Tuck (James Hayter) to join outcasts currently lead by a grumpy Alan-a-Dale (Eric Flynn). Even though they all hate Normans, they immediately
Dr. Niko Tatopolous (Matthew Broderick) is drafted onto a team that is investigating attacks by a giant monster. They quickly discover that a huge, radioactive lizard does exist and it is heading toward New York. Waiting in the city is Tatopolous’s ex-girlfriend, Audrey Timmonds (Maria Pitillo), who is trying to get a break as a