The X-Files: Agents and Aliens
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Photo: Fox “The truth is out there”. That was the slogan that ended most episodes’ opening credit sequence and in that lies the reason why…
Final Destination
High school student Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a nightmare where he and his classmates die in a plane crash; the dream is so vivid he skips an upcoming flight...…
Ice Station Zebra
An American nuclear sub heads for the North Pole on a rescue mission; on board is a British agent (Patrick McGoohan) who won’t tell anyone what he’s up to... as…
Man on the Roof: The Enemy Within
Sven Wollter and Thomas Hellberg. Photo: SF By 1976, American audiences had already familiarized themselves with Martin Beck. He was the Swedish police detective who starred in a series of…
The Wicker Man: Burning with Passion
Christopher Lee. Photo: British Lion Films In the early 1970s, writer Anthony Shaffer had seen a fair share of horror movies and decided to write one of his own, one…
Memento: Getting It Backwards
Guy Pearce. Photo: Newmarket It opened at the Venice Film Festival in September 2000 and then continued playing the festival circuit. Its American premiere was in January 2001 at the…
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…
French Connection: How It Was Broken
Gene Hackman. Photo: 20th Century Fox In 1971, William Friedkin was not happy at all. The French Connection had the potential to become not only his breakthrough but also a…
The Man Who Knew Too Much
For some reason, Alfred Hitchcock felt that the 1934 version of this story was something he could improve upon; if he was wrong or not is still a matter of…