The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

[6] Innovative producer/directors Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper (King Kong, Dr Cyclops) tackle a religious parable that ends in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius with The Last Days of Pompeii. Preston Foster stars as a poor blacksmith hardened…
Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

[6] Sylvia Sidney (Sabotage, Beetlejuice) plays two roles in this spin on the classic tale of The Prince and the Pauper. After a European princess (Sidney) comes down with the mumps on a good will tour of America, her political…
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)

The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)

[5] Character actor Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz) gets a leading role in this warped melodrama from director James Whale (The Old Dark House). Morgan plays an attorney defending a friend who murdered his wife after catching her in…
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

[5] Thor: Love and Thunder is another Marvel movie. It is better than a few other Marvel movies, but not as good as most. It was never torturous to watch, but if a storm knocked the movie theater's power out,…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

[6] Benedict Cumberbatch makes his first official sequel as Marvel's Doctor Strange, although he's appeared in many other Marvel movies since the first film was released in 2016. The core concept of this movie has dramatic potential, casting one of…
Deathtrap (1982)

Deathtrap (1982)

[7] Director Sidney Lumet (Network, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) brings Ira Levin's hit play to the big screen, showcasing Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve as warring playwrights who resort to real murder to further their careers. Caine plays…
Summer of 85 (2020)

Summer of 85 (2020)

[5] Director François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool) adapts a French young adult novel (Aiden Chambers' Dance on My Grave) about a sixteen-year-old boy who falls in love with a slightly older boy who rescues him when his sailboat capsizes…
Moonfall (2022)

Moonfall (2022)

[1] Roland Emmerich must be stopped. Since 1996's Independence Day, the director has been obsessed with apocalyptic disaster movies like Godzilla, 10,000 BC, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012 -- each one exponentially dumber than the preceding. When I heard…
Untamed Heart (1993)

Untamed Heart (1993)

[7] The same year she won an Oscar for My Cousin Vinny, Marisa Tomei also made an immeasurable contribution to this romantic drama about a Minneapolis waitress who falls in love with a shy, quiet bus boy (Christian Slater) who…
The Sentinel (2006)

The Sentinel (2006)

[6] Michael Douglas plays a secret service agent framed as a mole trying to assassinate the president. While the secret service, led by Kiefer Sutherland, chase him down, Douglas tries to prove his innocence by identifying the real mole before…