I Know What You Did Last Summer 

On graduation night, four high school students accidentally hit a pedestrian with their car; they dump the body into the ocean, but that’s not the last they hear of their…

Cast Away: Me, Myself & Wilson

Tom Hanks. Photo: 20th Century Fox We’ve all watched too many episodes of Survivor to have a realistic idea of what it would be like to be stranded on a…

The Polar Express 

Late on Christmas Eve, a boy who doesn’t believe in Santa anymore wakes up to see the Polar Express just outside his house; it’s headed for Santa’s home. The first…

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…