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…
Freaky Friday
Tess Coleman and her daughter Anna (Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan) find it impossible to communicate with each other; when a spell in a fortune cookie makes them switch bodies,…
Back to the Future: Party Like It’s 1955
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Photo: Universal Robert Zemeckis’s highly entertaining Romancing the Stone (1984) obviously borrowed a lot from Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), even if its hero…
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
20 years after first encountering the murderous Michael Myers, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) finds that adulthood and a nice job still can’t protect her from him. Curtis came up…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling
Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter and Alyson Hannigan. Photo: The WB I don’t know what Joss Whedon had in mind when he wrote the screenplay…
Scary Movie
High school teens accidentally hit a stranger with their car; some time later, a murderer strikes at their school. This horror spoof looked to Airplane! (1980) for ideas, but came…