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…

The Tenant 

Trelkovsky (Roman Polanski) rents a Paris apartment; the last tenant threw herself out of the window and Trelkovsky begins to feel the haunting effect of his new home. The last…

The Girl Who Played With Fire

After one year abroad, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) returns to Sweden and immediately becomes a suspect in a murder investigation involving three victims; Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) tries to help…

In the Loop: My Way or the Fucking Highway

Peter Capaldi and James Gandolfini. Photo: BBC Film Every mild-mannered leader needs a brutal enforcer, a man prepared to walk over corpses to achieve goals. President Barack Obama has Rahm…

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 

When the British government needs their help protecting a precious diamond as it is transported to China, Rick and Evelyn O'Connell (Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello) are coaxed out of retirement;…

Twilight

17-year-old Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) moves to a small Washington town to live with her father; she falls in love with a boy (Robert Pattinson) who turns out to be…