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…

Donnie Darko: Playing with Time

Jake Gyllenhaal and Daveigh Chase. Photo: Newmarket Films I have had dreams where I’m chased by Nazis in a forest. I have dreamt that I was a cast member of…

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…