Foster on Film

In the near future, a plague has stripped humans of a majority of their memories, and it continues to destroy any new ones in a matter of minutes or hours (it isn’t clear which or if it varies with the individual). For nine years, a young woman and her artistically inclined father have survived in

At a military base, ten years after a fungal plague kicked off the zombie apocalypse, a group of unusual children are kept in cells, allowed out only when strapped into chairs. Melanie (Sennia Nanua) is one of those children, happy even while abused by her military captors, particularly Sgt. Parks (Paddy Considine). She’s the best

Sometime in the future, undesirables are forced into a desert south-ish of Texas. Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) is the newest resident. She is quickly captured by body-building cannibals who chop off an arm and a leg. Before they can devour more of her, she escapes and ends up in Comfort, a drug-laden party town ruled by

Three or so years after a brief nuclear “misunderstanding” destroyed the world and killed most of the population, the remaining British are still very, very British. Father (Arthur Lowe), Mother (Mona Washbourne), and Penelope (Rita Tushingham) live on an underground train, which is powered by a man peddling a bike. When Father finds Penelope has

Max, looking younger than last time we saw him (Tom Hardy taking over for Mel Gibson), is taken captive by a flamboyant cult, lead by the unimpressive named Joe and filled with worshiping, sickly, pale, “war boys.” Coincidently, Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) chooses this time to betray the evil leader and sneak away his wives

High schooler Anna (Ella Hunt) is in a dark place after the death of her mother, being dumped by her asshole boyfriend Nick (Ben Wiggins), and attending a school presided over by a near psycho teacher (Paul Kaye). She just wants to escape her small Scottish village. Her ennui is interrupted by the zombie apocalypse.

Waking from a coma, Jim (Cillian Murphy) finds that a disease has turned most of humanity into vicious zombies.  With a few other survivors, he escapes the city, but nowhere is truly safe. This is a nicely done film, but it is so derivative there is no reason to put an effort into viewing it. 

Astronauts, including Ivan Hood (Bruce Campbell) and Kelly (Renee O’Connor), return from a forty-year mission and find alien insectoids have taken over.  Humans are used as slave labor and it is up Ivan to lead a revolt. Written, directed, produced, and acted by ex-Xena people, Alien Apocalypse has the feel of those New Zealand TV

After a nuclear war, the remaining, now-sterile humans are kept in camps by androids. Mary is still fertile, and she must take her fetus to a ship sailing for Europe. She is hunted by a killer android but protected by a barbarian kick boxer. What is it about cyborgs and martial arts? When I make a killer cyborg,

After a nuclear war, the survivors at a missile base, Major Denton (George Peppard), Tanner (Jan-Michael Vincent), Keegan (Paul Winfield), and Airman Perry (Kip Niven), set off in an armored RV to reach the paradise known as Albany.  Along the way, they encounter tornadoes, floods, killer cockroaches, gun-toting rednecks, and pick up a woman (Dominique

As civilization falls, two SWAT team members (Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger), a TV journalist (Gaylen Ross), and her helicopter pilot boyfriend (David Emge), take refuge from the zombie hordes in a shopping mall. Quick Review: This is the iconic zombie film.  The modern concept of zombies was started in Night of the Living Dead,

A mixed group of survivors, including a policeman (Ving Rhames), a nurse (Sarah Polley), a criminal, a pregnant woman, and three security guards, hole up in a mall as zombies take over the world. Quick Review: It starts so well.  Ana, the nurse, and her husband waking up to the zombie child was everything I