Foster on Film

A year after dying in a car accident, a man (Michael Keaton) is reincarnated as a snowman and given a chance to be a better father than he was when alive. Quick Review: In a way, I feel sorry for director Troy Miller.  With the basic concept, it was next to impossible for him to

Mask-wearing, immortal Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen in the near future, along with beautiful Rowan (Lexa Doig).  When both are thawed on a spaceship 400 years later, it is up to Rowan to stop Jason from killing everyone on board. Quick Review: This is what you do when you realize your franchise is way past

In order to prove the gods are on his side in a battle with the usurping King Pelias, Jason (Todd Armstrong, voice: Tim Turner) gathers the finest athletes of Greece and heads out to take the legendary golden fleece.  Aided by the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman), the powerful Hercules (Nigel Green), the ship builder Argos

Siblings Darry and Trish Jenner (Justin Long, Gina Phillips) are run off the road by a weird armored truck on their way home from college. Later, they spot the truck by an abandoned church as well as a man in a long coat throwing body-sized packages down a pipe. Suspecting that the man might be a murderer

Starting almost immediately after the events of the 2001 film, the Creeper (Jonathan Breck), who feeds on human body parts for twenty-three days every twenty-three years, has less than a day left before he goes dormant. After picking off a kid in a cornfield, he targets a bus load of high school students returning from a

Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a mnemonic smuggler, with an illegal implant in his brain that allows him to store computer data.  On his last job, things go terribly wrong and he finds himself hunted by the Yakuza.  Worse, he only has twenty-four hours to remove the overload of information from his head before it kills

A series of interrelated vignettes of horrible deaths, Ju-On slowly reveals why ghosts are killing the living, and why it will never end. Quick Review: Ju-On is part of the Japanese new wave of horror started by Ringu.  The films in the movement tend to be more frightening than almost any other movies, and also

A vicious murder curses a house.  Anyone who enters it afterward dies. I expected Ju-On: The Grudge to be more frightening and visually compelling than its video prequels (see my Ju-On 1 & 2 review).  This was a big screen release with a bigger budget, but it is a sequel, and like most sequels, it

Envious Roman senators Cassius (John Gielgud) and Casca (Edmond O’Brien) convince noble Brutus (James Mason) to join their plot to assassinate Julius Caesar (Louis Calhern). While the conspirators manage to get the Roman people’s sympathies, Marc Antony’s (Marlon Brando) speech turn the people from the murders and sets up the destruction of the Republic. Producer John

In the far future of 1980, when people no longer have names and personal airplanes have replaced cars, J-21 (John Garrick) and LN-18 (Maureen O’Sullivan) want to be married, but his application has been turned down by the marriage tribunal. Attempting to become more prestigious in order to win his appeal, he takes on the dangerous

In this variation on A Christmas Carol, Christmas hating Allen Karroll (Tom Everett Scott) is accidentally visited by the three spirits of Christmas (Alanna Ubach, Larry Miller, Verne Troyer) who are supposed to be working on the miser next door. Quick Review: Unlike Scrooged, Karroll’s Christmas actually has a clever and twisted idea that has the

Kibakichi (Ryuuji Harada), a yokai (beastman-demon) samurai, stumbles upon a village of yokai who masquerade as humans and feed off yakuza and other criminals who enter their gambling den. The residents have made a deal with some local  humans: if they help the humans take over their clan, they will be given land where they can