Daylight (1996)

Daylight (1996)

[3] Sylvester Stallone tries to save a group of people trapped in a collapsed New York tunnel in this actioner from director Rob Cohen (Dragonheart, The Fast and the Furious). Daylight is a throwback to Irwin Allen disaster movies like…
Taken (2008)

Taken (2008)

[6] Liam Neeson stars as an ex-CIA operative who pursues sex traffickers in Paris to rescue his kidnapped daughter. Taken opens with twenty minutes of clunky, expository screenwriting before Neeson is allowed to kick things into high gear. He single-handedly…
Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)

Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)

[6] [SPOILER WARNING] Part-way through production on 2017's theatrical version of Justice League, director Zack Snyder suffered a tragic loss in his family and had to step away from the production. Joss Whedon (The Avengers) was then called in to…
Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

[6] Sigourney Weaver returns in this fourth chapter of the Alien franchise, this time as an alien/human hybrid clone of her iconic Ripley character. It's a refreshing change of pace for the character, invigorated by a curious connection to her…
Cliffhanger (1993)

Cliffhanger (1993)

[6] Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, The Long Kiss Goodnight) directs Sylvester Stallone in this serviceable, high altitude actioner about a mountain rescue team that gets embroiled with deadly thieves searching for money they've lost in the snow-topped Rockies during…
Underwater (2020)

Underwater (2020)

[7] After an earthquake devastates their facilities at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a handful of deep sea drillers decide their only chance of surviving is to walk along the ocean floor to another nearby facility miles away. But…
Crawl (2019)

Crawl (2019)

[7] Director Alexandre Aja (High Tension) serves up a father/daughter survival thriller that takes place primarily in a basement full of alligators during a hurricane. Sound preposterous? Well, that's part of the charm. But Aja and screenwriters Michael and Shawn…
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

[5] Gal Gadot returns as Wonder Woman in Patty Jenkins' more fanciful sequel, Wonder Woman 1984. The muddled plot introduces a mysterious 'dreamstone' that grants one wish to whoever holds it. Gadot's Diana Prince wishes for the return of her…
Die Hard 2 (1990)

Die Hard 2 (1990)

[6] John McClane (Bruce Willis) has another run-in with terrorists on Christmas Eve, this time at Dulles Airport in Washington DC. McClane fights a rogue faction of U.S. military who sympathize with a deposed dictator being flown in for justice.…
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

[3] In the sewers beneath New York City, a big talking rat trains four big talking turtles to become ninja warriors so they can be shadowy superheroes to would-be victims in the night. Now, right away, you're either going to…