Foster on Film

In the years since Godzilla was trapped in ice, M-Force, made up of humans and vinyl-wearing mutants, has protected the world from the threat of giant monsters with sophisticated sci-fi weapons, wire-fu, and posing–lots and lots of posing. When a 1200-year-old “fossil” of a giant cyborg is discovered, mutant good-guy Ôzaki is assigned to bodyguard

Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a helicopter charter pilot, skips out of work on the day he was supposed to fly powerful businessman Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn) to the mountains, letting his partner take his place. Later, his partner doesn’t show up at a bar and when Adam arrives home, he finds a clone of himself already

Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) happens upon the island of Colossa, where the magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) is running from a giant cyclops. Sinbad rescues Sokurah, but the sorcerer drops a magic lamp containing a genie (Richard Eyer).  When Sokurah can get no help in returning to the island, he secretly shrinks Sinbad’s fiancée, Princess Parisa (Kathryn

Waking from a coma, Jim (Cillian Murphy) finds that a disease has turned most of humanity into vicious zombies.  With a few other survivors, he escapes the city, but nowhere is truly safe. This is a nicely done film, but it is so derivative there is no reason to put an effort into viewing it. 

A plane, carrying two unstable, intelligent, killing robots, crashes on a Pacific island.  A military team is sent in to retrieve the robots before they learn too much and become unstoppable.  To complicate matters, a gang of criminals, escaping their latest caper in a helicopter, lands on the same island. Some movies have important themes

A businessman (Steven Weber) must re-live Christmas Eve twelve times to learn the true meaning of the season. Quick Review: Was there a need to combine It’s a Wonderful Life with Groundhog Day?  The first has been copied far too many times and the second pretty much covered the reliving-a-day genre.  This isn’t an artistic

Rocky and Puddin’ Head (Bud Abbott & Lou Costello) accidentally swap a love letter between Lady Jane (Fran Warren) and Bruce (Bill Shirley) with Captain Kidd’s (Charles Laughton) treasure map. Kidd and Captain Bonney (Hillary Brooke) gather all the trouble makers together and everyone heads off to find his buried treasure. I was a fan of

Peter and Freddie (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) find themselves mixed up in the murder of a professor.  Trying to clear their names only makes things worse as both a criminal (Marie Windsor) and a cult leader (Richard Deacon) want the amulet they have, an amulet that leads to the treasure of an ancient tomb,

In 1929, the eccentric Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price), mutilated in an accident and now wearing an elaborate false face, seeks revenge on the medical team who failed to save his wife.  With the help of the beautiful and silent Vulnavia (Virginia North), Phibes carries out elaborate murders, modeled after the ancient plagues on Egypt. 

Kathleen (Lili Taylor), a philosophy graduate student, is attacked and bitten by an unknown woman (Annabella Sciorra).  She soon develops an addiction to blood, and to the evil that goes with taking it.  An older vampire (Christopher Walken) cruelly attempts to teach her how to exist in her new state, holding her hostage and feeding

Famed lover Don Juan (Errol Flynn), and his faithful servant, Leporello (Alan Hale), return to Spain to find it under the thumb of the traitorous Duke de Lorca (Robert Douglas).  Assigned as a fencing instructor, Don Juan devotes himself to the welfare of Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors).  When de Lorca moves against the crown, it

I can’t decide what hits me hardest when I watch The Adventures of Robin Hood, the beauty of the film or the sheer joy in it.  This is the film where everybody got it right. Let me start with the colors.  Technicolor was new to film in 1938 and for this one film, it was