Assault on Precinct 13: Standoff at Anderson

Photo: Turtle Releasing Organization After writing Dark Star (1974) together with John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon found his friendship with the director deteriorating. He detected a coolness in Carpenter’s attitude that…

Prey

In 1710, a young aspiring female Comanche warrior (Amber Midthunder) gets a chance to prove her mettle as a mysterious, invisible enemy haunts the forest. It turns out Arnold Schwarzenegger…

Underworld: In the Dead of Night

Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Photo: Paramount In the 1920s, the journalist and author Ben Hecht didn’t care all that much for the movies. Ironic, since his major achievements came…

Downton Abbey: A New Era

In 1928, Violet (Maggie Smith) surprises everyone by revealing that she has a villa in the south of France; at the same time, a film production company asks the family…

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

Tiffany (Diamond White) has now turned 18 and goes to Lake Derrick for a Halloween party… but that’s where several murders took place and Madea’s (Tyler Perry) crew embark on…

Boo! A Madea Halloween

Madea (Tyler Perry) and her friends spend their Halloween helping her nephew prevent his 17-year-old daughter (Diamond White) from getting into trouble. One of few Madea films not to be…

Dances With Wolves: Finding Your Tribe

Kevin Costner. Photo: Orion Pictures If Dances With Wolves had been released today, poisonous social media activism and cable news outlets would have made it part of the culture war,…

Onibaba: Curse of a Mask

Photo: Toho Company Reading about how director Kaneto Shindo was criticized early in his career for lacking a distinctive visual style seems ironic once you’ve seen one of his most…

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

In 1998, Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) heads back to Raccoon City, a place where she and her brother grew up in an orphanage; the town is still haunted. Paul W.S.…

Last Night in Soho

Fashion student Ellie Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) moves to London and begins having strange, realistic dreams that transport her back to the Swinging Sixties. Edgar Wright pulls you into the charm…