Resident Evil
A virus has been released inside The Hive, a secret underground facility, turning the lab workers into zombies; a military task force is deployed to take care of the problem.…
War of the Worlds
When tripods taller than buildings suddenly burst out from under the ground and start blasting everything and everyone to pieces, Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) grabs his kids and runs for…
Alien: The Deadly Stowaway
Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox The most famous sequence of this horrifying classic takes place about thirty minutes into the story. Everyone is relaxing after a somewhat gut-wrenching experience.…
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
With this third entry in the second series of Star Wars films, George Lucas closed in on the original series – not just in terms of story but also quality.…
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
The second Star Wars movie in the second series brings us ten years into the future after the events in The Phantom Menace (1999). The foundation to Anakin’s fall is…
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…
Signs
Pennsylvania farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) discovers huge circles in his corn field; similar events are taking place all over the world and mankind soon learns that aliens are on…
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 X Files
FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) try to find out why several fire fighters and a boy were placed inside a federal building that subsequently…
Star Trek: First Contact
The eighth Star Trek movie is the first to stand on its own with the crew from Star Trek: The Next Generation. This occasionally slow chapter harks back to a…