Foster on Film

Jasper Morello (voice: Joel Edgerton, Owen Lars in Episodes II & III of Star Wars and Gawain in King Arthur) lives in a future filled with steam-powered radios and iron airships.  A navigator who made a tragic mistake, he is given another chance onboard a hulking metal craft that is searching for a cure to

Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) blackmails the high and mighty: £10,000 or their stories will appear in his scandal sheet.  Four victims, insurance salesman Lord Mayley (Terry-Thomas), TV personality Wee Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers), author Flora Ransom (Peggy Mount), and model Melissa Right (Shirley Eaton), decide to fight back, and plan to eliminate Dennis with what

John Blake (Robert Culp), discontent with city life, takes his wife (Samantha Eggar) and moves to his great-grandfather’s ruined country mansion.  But it is haunted and something doesn’t want him there. Quick Review: Not so much a completed film, but a series of scenes edited together with no concern for narrative structure, the randomly named

Directed/Written by: Jan Schomburg   Produced by: Corinna C. Poetter This critique contains spoilers – if you have not seen the film yet, go to the Best Shorts page.  The Park City 2005 Festival season was an exercise in mediocrity.  Whether it was the grandmaster Sun Dance or the supposedly edgy Slamdance, “average” was the watchword. 

Now that the Nightmare on Elmstreet films are over and Freddy is dead, the people who made the films, including actress Heather Langenkamp, actor Robert Englund, and director Wes Craven (all playing themselves) are having nightmares of a darker Freddy.  When Heather’s son begins acting strangely and people die, she realizes that Freddy Kreuger is

Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) can see two minutes into his own future. Hiding in Las Vegas and attempting to lead a normal life, he finds himself pursued by an FBI agent (Julianne Moore) who wants to use him to stop a nuclear holocaust, as well as by terrorists who think he could be a threat

On Christmas eve, Jerry the mouse begins playing with the Christmas presents and goads Tom the cat into chasing him. 9 min. The third Tom and Jerry cartoon produced, The Night Before Christmas looks like all the other early Tom and Jerry shorts, and has pretty much the same structure as all of the later ones. The

In the late ’50s, alien parasites turn a person into murderous zombie.  Over 25 years later, two nerds, Chris Romero and J.C. Hooper (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall), in an attempt to join a fraternity, accidentally free the zombie from a cryogenic chamber, unleashing hordes of parasites and then, hordes of zombies on the hapless college. 

A professor investigating cultist Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis), dies when his car hits an electrical pole after he sees a demon. Skeptical psychologist, John Holden (Dana Andrews), takes over the investigation, and finds that he too has been cursed by Karswell. Harrington’s superstitious niece, Joanna Harrington (Peggy Cummins), tries to persuade Holden that he’s in danger

Bitter, slimy, tabloid reporter, Richard Dees (Miguel Ferrer), investigates a series of murders at rural airfields. Dees, who has a psychic connection to the killer, begins to suspect that the killer is a real vampire as a new cub reporter tries to take the story away from him. In the improbable world of Night Flier, the police and

Michael Baldwin (Paul Le Mat), working for an unreasonable boss (Mason Adams), is drilling for oil too close to Santa’s workshop.  The head elf (Paul Williams) takes Michael’s wife, Claudia (Jaclyn Smith), and their three kids to visit Mr. and Mrs. Claus (Art Carney and June Lockhart) so they can hear about the danger, but

While a youthful pop band plays continuously in the next train car, God (Himself) and Mr. Satan (Lu Sifer) discuss the fates of three individuals.  The first is Harry Billings (John Phillip Law), who was mixed up in a murder and black-market body parts operation that included psycho corpse-cutter, Otto (Richard Moll).  The second is