Quality Street (1937)

Quality Street (1937)

[4] Katharine Hepburn is remembered as one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but after having a few early hits like Morning Glory and Little Women, her career went into a tailspin for several years. In the mid-'30s she was even labeled 'box office…
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

[7] The villainous boogeyman Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) comes back for his first sequel, but this time he's not trying kill kids in their dreams -- he wants to kill them in the real world. And in order to do so, he…
Independence Day (1996)

Independence Day (1996)

[8] The disaster film is alive and well in this summer blockbuster in which evil aliens threaten to destroy Earth, leaving it up to a rag-tag team of politicians, soldiers, and scientists (plus a drunken crop-duster and a pole dancer!), to save…
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

[3] When I heard they were making a feature-length movie out of a teeny-weenie section of Bram Stoker's Dracula, focusing solely on Dracula's boat trip from Romania to England, I wondered, "How are they going to keep that from getting boring?" The…
Casino Royale (2006)

Casino Royale (2006)

[9] Daniel Craig joins the James Bond franchise in arguably its best offering to date. Craig plays Ian Fleming's James Bond at the beginning of his career, making his second kill and earning his status as a "00" agent before the title…
How the West Was Won (1962)

How the West Was Won (1962)

[8] Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard get the lion's share of screen time in the all-star epic western How the West Was Won. The film chronicles the Prescott family as they charge west in the 1830s, encountering river pirates, deadly rapids, Civil…
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

[4] In this animated film from Japan, a teenaged boy tries to take care of his little sister after their mother dies in a bombing by the Americans during World War II. The children's father is a soldier at sea who never…
Talk Radio (1988)

Talk Radio (1988)

[7] Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK) directed this underseen and underappreciated stage adaptation about a shock-jock radio deejay (Eric Bogosian) who riles up listeners with his harsh personal criticisms and grim social commentary. Bogosian, who wrote and starred in the one-act play on…
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

[6] A professor and his daughter (Andre Morell and Diane Clare) travel to a village in Cornwall to investigate a deadly epidemic only to discover the dead are crawling back to life! Hammer Films' only zombie flick hits a lot of the…
The Night Porter (1974)

The Night Porter (1974)

[6] A concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) rekindles a sado-masochistic relationship with a former SS officer (Dirk Bogarde) in The Night Porter. Thirteen years after the end of World War II, Rampling is married to a renowned music conductor when she spots…