Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

[5] Sigourney Weaver returns for her fourth (and thus far final) Alien film, resurrected by scientists seeking to extract the alien queen she was carrying at the end of Alien 3 when she heroically back-dived into a vat of molten…
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…
The Crow (1994)

The Crow (1994)

[8] A murdered man comes back from the dead to exact revenge on the gang who killed him and his fiancée in director Alex Proyas's stylistically dark and decadent adaptation of James O'Barr's comic book series. Stories of revenge always risk…
Nope (2022)

Nope (2022)

[8] Writer/director Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) delivers his third solid horror-mystery with Nope, the story of sibling horse wranglers (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) who discover a UFO hiding in a stationary cloud above their gulch ranch. At first…
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

[4] Kevin Costner headlines this big summer popcorn muncher about the legendary archer-turned-rebel who rallies his outcast merry men to battle the greedy Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) and fall in love with the fair maid Marian (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio).…
Strange Days (1995)

Strange Days (1995)

[8] Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett star in this tech-noir thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, The Hurt Locker) and writer James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar). It's late in the year 1999 (four years into the future for when the…
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

[8] Director Kevin Reynolds (Waterworld, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves) delivers his best effort to date with this telling of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. Jim Caviezel stars as Edmond Dantes, a man betrayed by his friend Fernand…
Along Came a Spider (2001)

Along Came a Spider (2001)

[6] Morgan Freeman reprises the role of Detective Alex Cross (which he began in Kiss the Girls) for this slightly superior sequel involving the kidnapping of a senator's daughter for ransom. At first, I was excited to see that Michael…
Hitchcock (2012)

Hitchcock (2012)

[8] Anthony Hopkins plays filmdom's master of suspense in this movie that chronicles the director's relationship with his wife, Alma, played by none other than Helen Mirren, during the making of Psycho. It should come as no surprise that Hopkins…