American Beauty: Beyond Italian Upholstery
Mena Suvari. Photo: DreamWorks The story of how American Beauty, one of the most celebrated films of the 1990s, was made is the story of how a struggling TV writer…
Rebel Without a Cause: Forever Young
James Dean. Photo: Warner Every time I watch this movie it's impossible not to think about the heartbreaking tragedies that ended the lives of its three young stars. This was…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Empty-headed high-school cheerleader Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) learns that it is part of her destiny to slay vampires. Five years after this horror-comedy, writer Joss Whedon would create a superior…
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…
Scream 2
Just in time for the premiere of ”Stab”, a movie about the Woodsboro murders, a new killer in a Ghostface costume appears, tormenting the survivors and their friends. It only…
Scream: Murder Movie Mania
Drew Barrymore. Photo: Dimension In 1994, Wes Craven directed his New Nightmare, the only Freddy Krueger flick he made after the original. It was a surprisingly intelligent outing, a meta-slasher…
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…