The Fall Guy (2024)
[8] Ryan Gosling proves he's as good in action as he is in drama, romance, or comedy in The Fall Guy, a film that blends all of these genres. He stars as a Hollywood stunt man who carries on a shaky relationship…
Eddington (2025)
[7] A stand-off between a small New Mexico town's ideologically opposed sheriff and mayor spirals violently out of control during the explosive summer of 2020 in this sardonic drama from writer/director Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar). Joaquin Phoenix stars as the sheriff of…
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
[6] In this thriller from Britain's Hammer Films, a woman is held against her will by her late fiancée's mother, a creepy religious zealot who aims to purify her soul to ensure her son's spirit gets into Heaven. Tallulah Bankhead (Lifeboat, The…
King of the Mountain (1981)
[5] Harry Hamlin (Clash of the Titans), Joseph Bottoms (The Black Hole), and Richard Cox (Cruising) star as three friends who engage in illegal car racing along a twenty-three mile, hilltop stretch of Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles... while also trying to…
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
[6] Geraldine Page (Oscar-winner for The Trip to Bountiful) chews the scenery in a delightfully villainous performance in What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, one of the 'hag horror' movies that popped up in the wake of 1962's What Ever Happened to…
Moment By Moment (1978)
[6] After the wild successes of Saturday Night Fever and Grease, John Travolta nearly derailed his burgeoning career with this critically reviled box office flop. Moment By Moment, written and directed by Lily Tomlin's manager-turned-wife Jane Wagner, is a May/December romance starring…
Remember the Night (1940)
[7] Before their classic pairing in 1944's noir classic Double Indemnity, Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray co-starred in this warm, Christmastime romance from director Mitchell Leisen (Death Takes a Holiday) and writer Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels). Stanwyck plays a shoplifter whose trial…
Alien: Romulus (2024)
[2] The seventh film in the Alien franchise is by far the worst of the litter, featuring a juvenile cast lacking any charisma who lead us through a tediously dull pastiche of the series' greatest hits. Alien: Romulus reeks of young adult…
The Thing (1982)
[10] This movie does two things extraordinarily well. It transports me and it terrifies me. Before anything scary even happens, director John Carpenter (Assault on Precinct 13, Starman) succeeds in creating an atmosphere of mystery and suspense that locks me into the…
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
[7] River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves co-star in Gus Van Sant's Shakespearean street odyssey about two hustlers who quest from Portland, Oregon to Rome, Italy in search of the mother who abandoned Phoenix when he was a baby. Reeves' character, meanwhile, is…