Mad Max (1979)

Mad Max (1979)

[8] Mel Gibson achieved global recognition with this Australian action-thriller set in the near dystopian future from writer/director George Miller (The Witches of Eastwick, Babe). Gibson plays Max Rockatansky, a policeman who inadvertently starts war with a violent motorcycle gang after one…
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

[6] Director/co-writer/actor John Krasinski serves up another helping of his intimate and suspenseful alien apocalypse story. The sequel begins with a flashback sequence of the day the aliens came to earth and began decimating the world's population. Krasinski appears in this flashback…
Outland (1981)

Outland (1981)

[4] Sean Connery stars in this middling conspiracy thriller set on one of Jupiter's moons. Connery plays the new head policeman at a titanium mining facility where some of the workers have begun losing their minds and endangering lives. When his investigation…
Poseidon (2006)

Poseidon (2006)

[6] Director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) returns to watery disaster fare with this remake of 1972's The Poseidon Adventure. Kurt Russell and Josh Lucas headline this iteration, both playing passengers aboard a mammoth luxury liner that gets turned upside…
The Rock (1996)

The Rock (1996)

[7] Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery headline this amped-up action thriller from reliable hit-makers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (producers of Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, and Top Gun). Cage plays an elite chemist who is paired with Connery's ex-con escape artist…
The Omega Man (1971)

The Omega Man (1971)

[7] Charlton Heston stars as the last uninfected man on Earth in the second of three adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. Vincent Price previously starred in 1964's The Last Man on Earth, and Will Smith would later anchor the…
The Quick and the Dead (1995)

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

[7] Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman star in this stylized western revenge tale from director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Darkman). Stone plays a gunslinger who enters a ramshackle frontier town's dueling tournament where she hopes to slay Hackman's character, the town's…
Witness (1985)

Witness (1985)

[8] Harrison Ford must hide among the Amish after he discovers corruption within his police department. Witness was an opportunity for Ford to show his acting chops, and it remains one of his best performances. This was the first American film made…
Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)

Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)

[6] Claude Dauphin stars as a race car driver who suffers from head trauma following a crash. The trauma is much more than physical, too -- he has uncontrollable urges to strangle his new wife (Diane Cilento). While recuperating together in the…
Dark City (1998)

Dark City (1998)

[7] [This review is of the 2008 Director's Cut.] Director Alex Proyas follows up his cult sensation The Crow with this dark, dystopian sci-fi flick about an amnesiac man (Rufus Sewell) who discovers a sinister force is manipulating him and everyone else…