Ice Age: The Meltdown 

Manny, Sid and Diego realize that the ice age is about to end and set out to save themselves from drowning. Carlos Saldanha, who worked on the first film, stepped…

Speed: Runaway Bus

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Photo: 20th Century Fox Here’s a now classic action movie that does its darnedest to make you stay away from public transportation. It starts with…

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 

Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), a 17-year-old juvenile delinquent, is left with a choice: either do time in prison or go to Japan and live with his strict father. That’s the…

Eight Legged Freaks

After an accident with toxic waste, spiders mutate and grow in size, eventually attacking humans in a small Arizona town. A film in the vein of Tremors (1989) and Arachnophobia…

Psycho: Sins of the Mother

Janet Leigh. Photo: Universal In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock decided to shake things up after making several films that were in color, generously budgeted and featured A-list stars. His new picture…

Saw 

Laurence (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannell) wake up chained to the wall in a dirty warehouse bathroom; they find two tape recordings and the voice on them gives the…

High Anxiety

Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks), a famous psychiatrist, is appointed new head of a California sanitarium, but discovers plenty of secrets upon his arrival. The director spoofs another genre, this time…

Mean Girls 

After being raised in Africa, 16-year-old Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) moves home to Illinois with her family and goes to high school for the first time in her life; she…

The Bourne Ultimatum

As Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) goes after the people who “created” him and killed his girlfriend, more CIA operatives are realizing that he may not be the enemy. The third…

For Your Consideration 

When veteran actors Marilyn Hack and Victor Alan Miller (Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer) are working on a movie together, they learn that their performances are generating Oscar buzz for the…