John Carter (2012)

John Carter (2012)

[5] Director Andrew Stanton (WALL-E, Finding Nemo) makes the leap from animation to live-action with this overly-ambitious adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' story A Princess of Mars. Taylor Kitsch (TV's Friday Night Lights) stars as the title character, a world-weary…
Starman (1984)

Starman (1984)

[7] Director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) takes a break from the horror genre for this sensitive sci-fi romance starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen. Bridges plays an alien who takes the form of Allen's deceased husband. After the initial…
Klondike Annie (1936)

Klondike Annie (1936)

[6] After the Hays Code was enforced in 1934, reigning in sexuality and violence in Hollywood's output, Mae West's brand of sexual innuendo was greatly diminished. But the old broad still has some appeal in Klondike Annie. West plays a…
Freaked (1993)

Freaked (1993)

[7] In this colorful, cartoonish farce, a former child actor, his friend, and a political activist are captured by a mad scientist and transformed into carnival freaks at a roadside circus. The former child star becomes the half-deformed 'Beast Boy',…
Creation (2009)

Creation (2009)

[7] Paul Bettany (Master and Commander) stars as English naturalist and evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin in this dramatic biopic from director Jon Amiel (Copycat, Sommersby). Creation focuses on the time during which Darwin struggled to complete his controversial book, The…
Anger Management (2003)

Anger Management (2003)

[5] Adam Sandler plays a man wrongly sentenced to a series of anger management courses. His instructor, played by Jack Nicholson, antagonizes him with his unorthodox teachings, which include moving in with Sandler and flirting with his girlfriend (Marisa Tomei).…
Goldfinger (1964)

Goldfinger (1964)

[8] In the third James Bond film, agent 007 (Sean Connery) is trying to stop the title character, a nefarious gold tycoon, from breaking into Fort Knox. Goldfinger is a standalone story, without any connection to the overarching SPECTRE storyline,…
The Brides of Dracula (1960)

The Brides of Dracula (1960)

[7] Peter Cushing returns in Hammer Films' first of many Dracula sequels. Despite the odd absence of Christopher Lee this time out, The Brides of Dracula is more fun and engaging than 1958's Horror of Dracula. The film opens with…
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

[6] When pressured to make a sequel to his seminal masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, director Tobe Hooper decided to embrace the comedy and lampoon the original. Caroline Williams stars as a late-night deejay who accidentally records one of…
Weapons (2025)

Weapons (2025)

[8] After his strong debut film, 2022's Barbarian, writer/director Zach Cregger returns with a sophomore effort as good or better. Weapons starts off with a compelling mystery -- why did seventeen school children, all in the same class, suddenly get…