Bill and Mandy Save Christmas (2005)

Bill and Mandy Save Christmas (2005)

The Grim Reaper (voice: Greg Eagles) takes Billy (voice: Richard Steven Horvitz) and Mandy (voice: Grey DeLisle) to the North Pole to prove that Santa Claus exists.  But once there, they find that Santa (voice: Gilbert Gottfried) has become a vampire.  Leaving Billy with Mrs. Claus (voice: Carol Kane), Grim and Mandy journey to the

Bitter Moon (1992)

Bitter Moon (1992)

Stuffy, British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson (Kristin Scott Thomas, Hugh Grant) take a cruise to India in an attempt to bring some magic to their overly comfortable marriage.  On board they meet sexy, French, femme fatale, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner), and her obnoxious, crippled, American husband, Oscar (Peter Coyote), who pick Nigel to hear the

Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

Edward Maynard (Keith Andes) hopes to prove that Sir Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher), the governor of Jamaica, is still a pirate. To do that, he joins the crew of the infamous Blackbeard (Robert Newton), who has his own score to settle with Morgan. Blackbeard also kidnaps Edwina Mansfield (Linda Darnell ), an upper class lady whose father

Blade (1998)

Blade (1998)

A half-vampire (Wesley Snipes) hunts the undead with guns, swords, spikes, and drugs. When an upstart vampire gang leader (Stephen Dorff) decides to overthrow the old order of their society, Blade’s job gets a lot harder. An early entry in the style-first monster film sub-genre (Resident Evil, Underworld), Blade, like those that followed, is exciting, rich

Blade II (2002)

Blade II (2002)

Blade (Wesley Snipes) teams up with a pack of vampires to stop the spread of a new type of undead that is a threat to humans and the old vampire order. Quick Review: If you’ve seen Blade, you know what you are in for. The action is a bit faster, the monsters a bit scarier, and

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Blade: Trinity (2004)

In this third entry in the series, Blade (Wesley Snipes) joins up with a vampire hunting band (Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds) to stop Dracula (Dominic Purcell) and perhaps to end the vampire race forever. With big, shiny, action films, it’s easy to ignore the skill level of the director. This isn’t Shakespeare after all, so anyone

Blade Runner (1982) as Film Noir

Blade Runner (1982) as Film Noir

Forty years of Film Noir and fifty years of Science Fiction met to form a new genre (Cyperpunk).  The streets were just as gritty, but those streets were filled with hover-cars.  Blade Runner is a film about what it means to live—to be human—and it presents that theme with androids, blasters, chases, fights, and romance.

Blessed (2004)

Blessed (2004)

Craig and Samantha Howard (James Purefoy, Heather Graham), desperate for a baby, go to a fertility clinic that artificially inseminates Samantha, adding the blood of The Devil. Businessman and Satanist Earl Sidney (David Hemmings) aids the couple, while Father Carlo (Andy Serkis) attempts to kill the unborn twins to stop a child of Lucifer being

The Blob (1958)

The Blob (1958)

A meteorite hits in a wooded area near a “typical” 1950s town. It carried a small amorphous blob that attacks an old man’s hand and begins to dissolve it. Teenagers Steve Andrews (Steve McQueen) and Jane Martin (Aneta Corsaut) find the man and take him to the local doctor.  The blob grows, devouring the old man, the

The Blob (1988)

The Blob (1988)

A homeless man, investigating a meteorite, is attacked by a small, amoeba-like blob that begins to dissolve his hand. High school football star Paul Taylor (Donovan Leitch) and cheerleader Meg Penny (Shawnee Smith), along with teen bad-boy Brian Flagg (Kevin Dillon) take him to the hospital. When he dies, along with others, Flagg is blamed,

Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

Margaret Fuchs’s 21st birthday nets her an impossibly huge ruby ring from her archaeologist father (Andrew Keir), and even more nightmares of ancient Egypt.  She doesn’t yet know that she was born at the precise moment Professor Fuchs and his band of grave robbers recited the name of an ancient queen over said queen’s 3000

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

Saya, a vampire hunter in Japan just as the Vietnam is about to heat up, is sent by a secret organization to a girl’s school on an American military base. There she seeks out vampiric demons that hide as students. Quick Review: I’d like to say you should rush out and see this anime film