Westworld
Some time in the future, two tourists (Richard Benjamin, James Brolin) go to Westworld, a theme park built like a city in the Old West where the gunslingers are played…
The Laughing Policeman
One late evening in San Francisco, a massacre takes place on a bus with a sole survivor; one of the victims turns out to be a cop. This Americanization of…
Blade Runner: In Search of Emotions
Photo: Warner When I first saw this classic science fiction flick, I was thoroughly unimpressed. It looked great, but the story and action were so forgettable that I refused to…
Jagged Edge
When a wealthy woman is brutally murdered, her husband (Jeff Bridges) becomes a suspect; his attorney (Glenn Close) doesn’t know what to believe about her client. One of the earliest…
Fail-Safe: Be Very Afraid
Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau. Photo: Columbia 1964 was indeed the year of the Bomb. Stanley Kubrick's absurd Cold War comedy Dr. Strangelove, which was based on a novel by…
The X Files: I Want to Believe
When an FBI agent is kidnapped, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson) are consulted by the Bureau; the only clue is a disgraced priest (Billy Connolly) with…
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
As Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is recovering in a hospital from the events of the last movie, a secret unit within the police is desperately trying to erase anything that…
Vertigo: I Put a Spell on You
James Stewart and Kim Novak. Photo: Paramount One of Alfred Hitchcock's three 1950s Technicolor masterpieces (the others are Rear Window and North by Northwest). Curiously enough, at the time of…
The Girl Who Played With Fire
After one year abroad, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) returns to Sweden and immediately becomes a suspect in a murder investigation involving three victims; Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) tries to help…
WarGames
Teenage computer whiz David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) finds a way of connecting with a super-sophisticated computer at the Pentagon and starts playing a war game that turns out to be…