Saved! (2004)

Saved! (2004)

[6] Jena Malone (Donnie Darko) stars as a high-schooler at an all-Christian school who thinks she's doing the Lord's will when she has premarital sex with her gay boyfriend, hoping it will 'straighten' him out. But when she becomes pregnant,…
For Your Eyes Only (1981)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

[5] Roger Moore returns for his fifth outing as James Bond. After the silliness of Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only makes an effort to dial down the franchise's more comic-book qualities. After an unceremonious pre-title demise of long-time supervillain Blofeld,…
The Descent (2005)

The Descent (2005)

[8] Neil Marshall follows up his auspicious feature directorial debut, Dog Soldiers, with this all-female plunge into the claustrophobic depths of Appalachian caves. The Descent reminds me of From Dusk Til Dawn in that it's really two completely different movies…
Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

[7] Director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) puts his cinematic stamp on Mary Shelley's formative sci-fi novel, casting Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Annihilation) as the obsessed Victor Frankenstein who brings an assembly of dead body…
Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands (2025)

[7] Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey) leads the Predator franchise in a bold new, character-driven direction with Predator: Badlands. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi stars (under digital makeup) as Dek, the film's title hunter, a runt whose ruthless father tries to…
Dressed to Kill (1980)

Dressed to Kill (1980)

[8] Brian DePalma (Carrie, Sisters) serves up a sexually charged Hitchcockian thriller about a female slasher hunting a prostitute who witnessed her last murder. Michael Caine stars as the shrink who tries to help the call girl, who's played by…
The Hunt for Red October (1990)

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

[8] Alec Baldwin takes on the mantle of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan in the action-thriller The Hunt for Red October. One of the joys of this movie is seeing Baldwin, previously known mostly for co-starring in Beetlejuice, become a leading…
Moonraker (1979)

Moonraker (1979)

[5] Heavily influenced by the success of Star Wars a few years prior, James Bond (Roger Moore) blasts into outer space to foil a bad guy's scheme to eradicate all human life on Earth. While Moonraker made a lot of…
Bugonia (2025)

Bugonia (2025)

[6] Two cousins (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) kidnap a famous pharmaceutical CEO (Emma Stone) because they believe she is an alien intent on harming humankind. Director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite) makes the deranged cousins sympathetic and the CEO…
Terror of the Tongs (1961)

Terror of the Tongs (1961)

[3] The output from Britain's Hammer Films is usually surprisingly entertaining, but such is not the case for this dreadfully dull would-be thriller. Terror of the Tongs is about a sea captain (Geoffrey Toone) who stops at nothing to expose…