Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

[7] After the success of Star Wars two years earlier, Paramount was quick to launch their own cinematic foray into outer space with the first Star Trek feature film. Star Trek: The Motion Picture reunites the crew from the TV…
U.S. Marshals (1998)

U.S. Marshals (1998)

[4] Tommy Lee Jones reprises his Oscar-winning role from The Fugitive, once again tracking down a man on the run. And once again that man happens to be innocent. Jones doesn't know that, but we do. You'd think maybe this…
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

[8] This is the best of the Next Generation films, in large part because it deals with one of Star Trek's most formidable foes, the Borg. The movie also incorporates a subplot involving warp drive inventor Zephram Cochran (James Cromwell)…
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

[6] SPOILER REVIEW. The Next Generation crew go out on a relatively low note, but not a whimper. Aside from the wedding of Riker and Troi early in the film, Nemesis is an uncharacteristically dark entry in the franchise. The…
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

[6] Jacqueline Bisset (The Deep, Bullitt) stars as the wife of a music journalist who becomes convinced her husband's body has been inhabited by another man, a famous concert pianist, through the use of dark magic. Alan Alda plays the…
Planet of the Apes (1968)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

[8] It may be tempting to dismiss Planet of the Apes as high camp, but there's provocative science-fiction under those monkey masks. Charlton Heston plays an American astronaut who's on his way back to Earth when he crashlands on a…
First Knight (1995)

First Knight (1995)

[3] Remember the Robert Altman movie The Player? At the end of that movie, they mock the typical Hollywood movie by showing the end of a cheesy movie in which Julia Roberts is sentenced to death in the gas chamber, only to…
First Blood (1982)

First Blood (1982)

[8] Spoiler Review! Sylvester Stallone further cemented his action super-star status with this smart, character-driven thriller about a former Green Beret suffering from post-traumatic stress who gets bullied by a small mountain-town sheriff and his deputies. When the soldier finally…
Supergirl (1984)

Supergirl (1984)

[6] Supergirl is good cheese, one of those 'so bad it's good' kind of movies. You've got Faye Dunaway vamping out as a frustrated witch living in an abandoned amusement park, smokey voiced Brenda Vaccaro as her wise-cracking sidekick, a…
Basic Instinct (1992)

Basic Instinct (1992)

[8] Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Soldier of Orange) directs this sexually super-charged Hitchcockian thriller about a San Francisco detective (Michael Douglas) investigating a seductive writer (Sharon Stone) about a murder case that plays out similar to one of her novels. As…