Foster on Film

A logging crew, led by Mike Rogers (Robert Patrick), returns from a job claiming that one of them, Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney) was killed by a bolt from a UFO.  Lieutenant Frank Watters (James Garner) thinks it’s a case of murder. Quick Review: Those wacky aliens are at it again, kidnapping rednecks to carry 0ut

Jimmy (Guy Pearce) is a selfish, egotistical salesman who’s always thinking of a way to make that big sale. Then a car accident finds him with time to kill and a fortune teller nearby.  After several of the palm reader’s predictions come true, Jimmy worries that a more dire prophecy could also be accurate: that

Head butler, Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke), and his loyal staff rob and con in order to raise enough money to keep Miss Vicky (Dame Edith Evans) convinced she’s still rich.  But their perfect world is upset when a new secretary, Juliet Nowell (Barbara Feldon), enters the household. Quick Review: A skillfully written piece of Christmas

This week, our plucky hero Flash (Sam J. Jones), along with new girlfriend Dale (Melody Anderson) and the genius Dr. Zarkov (Topol), journey into space to stop the emperor Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow) from destroying Earth. Will Flash be able to resist the lascivious advances of Ming’s daughter (Ornella Muti)? Will he be able to

Three renegade scientists bring a cryogenic coffin containing a woman infected with a zombie-transforming virus onto a commercial jet liner.  Turbulence causes the refrigeration unit to breakdown and the woman is soon running about, turning the crew and passengers into flesh-eaters.  A mix-matched group, including a sexy stewardess, an air martial, a golf pro, a

François Delambre (Vincent Price) receives a call from his sister-in-law, Helene (Patricia Owens), in which she hysterically confesses to killing her husband, Andre (David Hedison—as Al Hedison). The couple loved each other and had no problems, yet she compressed his head and hand in a press, and now refuses to say why. François discovers that before his

Martin Brundle (Eric Stoltz), the son of a scientist who accidentally mixed his DNA with a fly’s, is raised by corporate CEO Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson) as a science experiment. Martin, unaware of his past, grows to adulthood in five years and starts a relationship with Beth Logan (Daphne Zuniga). Then, his dormant mutations become active, and

A hundred years ago, a ship of lepers sank off the shore of what would become the town of Antonio Bay.  Now a strange fog is rolling into town and citizens are dying. Part ghost story, part slasher, part curse flick, The Fog is an atmospheric tale that puts multi-dimensional, everyday people into a horrific

Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew travel to Altair-IV aboard their flying saucer to investigate the disappearance of the ship, Bellerophon, years earlier. They find that only Dr Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his innocent daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), have survived.  Morbius is studying the advanced machinery of a dead race, the Krell,

The four members of the stodgy, conservative, ultra-religious Franklin family live their lives around what is proper, until a car crash puts Frank (Robertson Dean), Betty (Teresa Willis), and their son Brian (Vince Pavia) into direct contact with Jesus, who removes their sense of shame. Returned to Earth, the three find new meaning in life, but

Telly Parada (Julianne Moore), grieving over the death of her son, finds that everyone has forgotten he ever existed and all traces of him are gone. When she tries to get a man to remember that he had a daughter that also died, she is suddenly wanted by the NSA. I have my review of The

Bob Anderson (Terry O’Quinn), a recent widower, moves in to a new house and starts a relationship with his neighbor (Kristy McNichol).  But the ghost of the house has other ideas. Quick Review: This film hits all the right notes for me.  There are some blatant flaws (the clichéd narration, the limited camera work, the