FBI agent Will Graham (William Petersen) tracks a serial killer with the help of the insights from the dangerous psychopath, Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox). Quick Review: Novelist Thomas Harris wrote essentially the same story twice. In both Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs, a brilliant but flawed FBI agent must find an insane killer. The
American journalist Larry Stanford (Peter Dyneley), on assignment in Tokyo, is given an experimental injection by obsessed, amoral scientist Dr. Robert Suzuki (Tetsu Nakamura). The drug brings out Standford’s baser instincts, and he abandons his wife (Jane Hylton) and takes to excessive drinking and sleeping with local prostitutes that Suzuki supplies. Suzuki sends his mistress
When Sir Borotyn’s body is found, drained of all it’s blood, superstitious Dr. Doskil (Donald Meek) declares the cause of death to be a vampire attack, and the townspeople agree. Skeptical Police Inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) calls in Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore) who agrees with the doctor. Zelen fears that the new residents of the
Spanish dueling champion Don Diego Vega (Frank Langella) returns to California to find that his father has been forced out as governor, replaced by the corrupt Luis Quintero (Robert Middleton) who has the peasants whipped, over-taxed, and generally abused. Realizing that he can help best in secret, he acts bored and effeminate in public, behaving
On what looks like a standard missing persons case, detective Philip Marlowe (James Garner) meets a blackmailer (Jackie Coogan) who is later murdered. A set of incriminating photos of a sitcom star (Gayle Hunnicutt) and a gangster (H.M. Wynant) that the blackmailer was holding leads Marlowe along a convoluted trail of dead bodies and uncooperative
Picked up in the arctic by an exploration ship, Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh) tells his tragic story—how he fell in love with his stepsister, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), how his mother died a bloody death during childbirth, how he went to school to become a doctor, and how, in his quest to end death, he
Dashing aristocratic soldier Capt. Renato Dimorna (John Derek) returns home to find his father accused of treason and murdered by Governor Viovanni Larocca (Anthony Quinn). Feigning a leg injury and belief that his father was a traitor, Renato takes on the identity of the masked “Ghost of Monte Cristo” to bring justice to the land.Â
Neo (Keanu Reeves), Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) continue to fight the machines. Now, with the machines staging a final assault on Zion, the last human city, Neo visits The Oracle (Gloria Foster) and learns he must return to “the source” to end the war. To do so, he will have to deal
With the machines attacking Zion, Captain Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), must rush back to the city with the last functional EMP weapon. Neo (Keanu Reeves), and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) head for the machine city where Neo will discover his destiny. And the Agent Smith clones have taken over The Matrix. The
These are reviews of “Fan Edits” and are intended for people who are familiar with the “original” studio cuts. I may reveal details of those versions, including twists and the ending. After the Star Wars films, there are more fan edits of The Matrix movies than any other film or film series. It’s easy to
Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens), a renowned concert pianist, befriends failed musician Myles Clarkson (Alan Alda). While Clarkson bathes in the attention, the ailing Duncan and his daughter (Barbara Parkins) carry out a ritual that allows Duncan to possess Myles’s body when he dies. Afterward, Myles’s wife, Paula (Jacqueline Bisset), begins to notice changes in her
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck, voice: Alan Young), ignores Christmas and his fellow “man,” has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred (Donald Duck, voice: Clarence Nash), and makes life difficult for his employee, Bob Cratchit (Mickey Mouse, voice: Wayne Allwine). The ghost of his partner (Goofy, voice: Hal Smith) appears to him at night