Live and Let Die (1973)

Live and Let Die (1973)

[6] Roger Moore makes his debut as James Bond in Live and Let Die, a weird blend of voodoo magic and blaxploitation that stands apart from any other entry in the Bond oeuvre. The script by Tom Mankiewicz has Bond investigating 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…
Village of the Damned (1995)

Village of the Damned (1995)

[6] After helming one of the best remakes of all time with 1982's The Thing, John Carpenter tackles another atomic-age remake. Village of the Damned is pretty faithful to the original 1960 film's storyline, which is based on a 1957 book titled…
The Mayor of Hell (1933)

The Mayor of Hell (1933)

[6] James Cagney and Frankie Darro star in this story of abuse at a boy's reform school. Darro plays a teenaged gang member sentenced to the school, where the cruel superintendent (Dudley Digges) whips the boys for slightest infractions. Cagney's character is…
Highlander (1986)

Highlander (1986)

[8] Christopher Lambert (Greystoke) stars as Connor MacLeod, a 460-year old Scottish highlander who runs a New York City antique shop in the 1980s. He's a member of a rare breed of immortals who are destined to war with each other until…
Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

[5] The Venom trilogy stumbles in its finale, but it has some nice moments. Tom Hardy returns as journalist Eddie Brock, exiled to Mexico after events of the previous movie and still hosting Venom, a shapeshifting alien symbiote, in his body. When…
Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

[3] [This review is of the 2025 Director's Cut.] Special makeup effects artist Tom Savini directs this early '90s remake of George Romero's seminal Night of the Living Dead. Tony Todd and Patricia Tallman lead the ensemble cast with a script that…
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

Bell, Book and Candle (1958)

[6] In this supernatural romantic comedy -- a rarity in its time -- James Stewart plays a New York publisher who becomes the object of affection for a young woman who runs a curio shop. Kim Novak plays the shop owner, who…
Star Trek: Beyond (2016)

Star Trek: Beyond (2016)

[8] J.J. Abrams hands the reigns to director Justin Lin (director of several Fast and Furious movies), working from a script co-written by Scotty (Simon Pegg). The result? A pretty solid entry in the Star Trek franchise, possibly the best of the…
Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)

Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)

[7] Spoilers Ahead. J.J. Abrams (TV's Lost and Alias) serves up a second, fairly solid entry in the rebooted Star Trek franchise. This time Abrams reintroduces the character of the villainous Khan, played so memorably by Ricardo Montalban in the original series…