From Russia With Love 

James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to collect a coding machine, but the whole thing is a trap set by the vindictive terror organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. The second James Bond flick…

Dr. No: The Beginning of an Era

Ursula Andress. Photo: United Artists It opens with that famous shot of someone having the world’s most renowned spy in his sights, only to get killed by him in a…

O Brother Where Art Thou: Men of Constant Sorrow

John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson and George Clooney. Photo: Universal In Preston Sturges’s classic film Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Joel McCrea’s character, a Hollywood movie director, sets out to experience “the…

Clear and Present Danger 

As Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) climbs the CIA ladder, the President declares an illegal war on Colombian drug cartels. The sequel to Patriot Games (1992) was made by the same…

Patriot Games 

After averting an IRA attack on members of the royal family in London, and killing one of the terrorist's brothers, CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) becomes a marked man.…

RoboCop: Ghost in the Machine

Peter Weller. Photo: Orion Paul Verhoeven is a lively fellow. At work, he tends to use his entire body to show the cast and crew of a film exactly what…

The Village 

The people of a small, isolated Pennsylvania village have a special agreement with creatures that inhabit the surrounding woods, but an accident brings about changes... M. Night Shyamalan's first major…

Collateral 

Los Angeles cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) takes a passenger (Tom Cruise) who turns out to be a hit man with a contract on five people; he needs Max…