The Pink Panther: A Night in the Lounge

Peter Sellers and Capucine. Photo: United Artists Every once in a while you need to kick back and just have fun. After making the far more somber Days of Wine…

National Lampoon’s Vacation 

The Griswolds leave Chicago for a road trip to the West Coast and Walley World, a popular theme park, but their journey quickly descends into chaos. One of Chevy Chase’s…

Halloween II 

After seemingly stabbing Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) to death, Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) is rushed to the hospital to be treated for her wounds, but Michael turns out to have…

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest 

As Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is recovering in a hospital from the events of the last movie, a secret unit within the police is desperately trying to erase anything that…

Ringu 2 

Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) learns that the young son of a friend who died after watching a mysterious videotape has psychic powers; the deadly Sadako is not done with the…

Vertigo: I Put a Spell on You

James Stewart and Kim Novak. Photo: Paramount One of Alfred Hitchcock's three 1950s Technicolor masterpieces (the others are Rear Window and North by Northwest). Curiously enough, at the time of…

Saw V 

Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) and Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) survive Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) traps, but Strahm has a feeling that Hoffman knows far more about it than he puts on.…

30 Days of Night

Every year when the small town of Barrow, Alaska loses sunlight for a month, most of its inhabitants leave, but this year an influx of murderous vampires changes things. Don't…

Chicken Run

Ginger, the most optimistic chicken on a Yorkshire farm, spends every waking minute plotting her escape; when a rooster, Rocky Rhodes, accidentally joins the chickens Ginger sees her chance. The…

E.T. The Thing from Another World

Henry Thomas. Photo: Universal When Richard Attenborough accepted his two Oscars for Gandhi in 1983, he acknowledged the fact that he had just beaten one of the favorites. "I was…