Once again on Christmas, John McClane (Bruce Willis), finds himself battling terrorists in order to protect his wife. This time, he stumbles into them at the airport where they are trying to free a South American Fascist leader. Quick Review: It is unfair to compare the sequel to the original Die Hard, but I just
With The Doctor (David Tennant) in a coma after a difficult regeneration, Rose (Billie Piper) returns to Earth in the TARDIS at Christmastime. Unfortunately, the alien Sycorax have also arrived, with plans to conquer the planet. With The Doctor sidelined, and lesser aliens after his body, Rose is helpless and afraid, and the new Prime
When the police inform Dr. Xavier (Lionel Atwill) that they suspect someone from his Academy of Surgical Research to be the cannibalistic Full Moon Killer, he requests time to do his own “scientific” inquiry, to avoid adverse publicity. However, investigative reporter Lee Taylor (Lee Tracy) overhears the police, and writes a story, forcing Dr. Xavier
Sledding in the snow, Donald Duck (Clarence Nash, who does all voices) purposely destroys Huey, Dewey, and Louie’s snowman. The boys decide to fight back and it escalates to a wild snowball fight. 7 min. This isn’t really a Christmas film, but it is a winter one, and is generally shown at Christmastime. Disney packages
A combination archeological dig and research facility on Mars is quarantined for unknown reasons. A Rapid Response Tactical Squad, lead by Sarge (The Rock) and including John Grimm (Karl Urban), is sent in to save the corporation’s data, retrieve personnel if possible, and take out anything dangerous. Once there, they join with Grimm’s scientist sister (Rosamund Pike),
Insurance salesman Walter Neff (Richard Crenna) is seduced by housewife Phyllis Dietrickson (Samantha Eggar) into killing her husband. Walter falsifies an accident policy for the husband that has a double indemnity clause: it pays double if the insured dies in a train accident. Their one foreseeable problem is Barton Keyes (Lee J. Cobb), a crack insurance investigator
In the most Victorian of Victorian Englands, upstanding Dr. Jekyll (Fredric March) investigates the duel personality of man while waiting in frustration for his delayed wedding to Muriel Carew (Rose Hobart). Her father, Brigadier-General Danvers Carew (Halliwell Hobbes) insists they wait; he’s also not happy with Jekyll’s unorthodox theories. Jekyll’s attempt to separate man’s nature
Another telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of a scientist (Spencer Tracy) who makes a potion to split apart the good and evil sides of man, and ends up with the murderous Mr. Hyde. What is more fun than hearing, over and over, debates between a googly-eyed doctor who claims that we are all made
Renfield (Dwight Frye) travels to Transylvanian to arrange for Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) to move to London. Renfield is turned into an insane slave of the vampire count and together they travel to England, where Dracula settles in a ruined abbey next to Doctor Seward’s (Herbert Bunston) sanitarium, inside which Renfield takes up residence. Dracula
Yet another film of the stage play, Count Dracula (Frank Langella) moves to England for new hunting grounds and to seduce Lucy Seward (Kate Nelligan). However, vampire hunter Van Helsing (Laurence Olivier) and Jonathan Harker (Trevor Eve) fight to keep Lucy in polite society and to destroy the king of the vampires. The problem with
A researcher (Craig Sheffer) and his students bring Dracula (Stephen Billington) back to “life” in order to use his blood as a cure for just about everything. As they study him, Dracula watches for a way to escape and a vampire-hunting, self-flagellating, priest (Jason Scott Lee) searches for the count. Quick Review: This strangely titled
Uffizi (Jason Scott Lee), a half vampire and newly ex-priest, and Luke (Jason London) travel to Romania to hunt down Dracula and find Luke’s girlfriend (Diane Neal). They meet Julia Hughes (Alexandra Westcourt), a television reporter, and the three of them battle past hordes of vampires and sidestep rebel forces to reach the count. Dracula 2000