The Thing (1982) RT 80% / Audience 92%
DVD release: Aug 2001
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills. (more)
GENRES: Horror • Mystery • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: John Carpenter
CAST: Kurt Russell • Wilford Brimley • T. K. Carter • David Clennon
61* (2001)
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • TV movie
DIRECTION: Billy Crystal
CAST: Barry Pepper • Thomas Jane • Anthony Michael Hall • Richard Masur
Encino Man (1992) RT 16% / Audience 56%
DVD release: May 2001
High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man from the past in their back yard. But the thawed-out Link, as the boys have named him, quickly becomes ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Les Mayfield
CAST: Sean Astin • Brendan Fraser • Pauly Shore • Megan Ward
Fire Down Below (1997) RT 11% / Audience 35%
DVD release: Sep 2001
Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
CAST: Steven Seagal • Marg Helgenberger • Stephen Lang • Brad Hunt
Heartburn (1986) RT 47% / Audience 47%
DVD release: Jul 2004
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Mike Nichols
CAST: Meryl Streep • Jack Nicholson • Jeff Daniels • Maureen Stapleton
Heaven's Gate (1980) RT 57% / Audience 54%
DVD release: May 2001
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Western
DIRECTION: Michael Cimino
CAST: Kris Kristofferson • Christopher Walken • John Hurt • Isabelle Huppert
License to Drive (1988) RT 18% / Audience 62%
DVD release: May 2005
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license, Les refuses to break ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Greg Beeman
CAST: Corey Haim • Corey Feldman • Carol Kane • Heather Graham
Multiplicity (1996)
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Fantasy • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Harold Ramis
CAST: Michael Keaton • Andie MacDowell • Harris Yulin • Eugene Levy
Nightmares (1983) RT 17% / Audience 34%
DVD release: Aug 1999
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an ... (more)
GENRES: Horror • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Joseph Sargent
CAST: Emilio Estevez • Cristina Raines • Lance Henriksen • Richard Masur
Palindromes (2004) RT 42% / Audience 69%
DVD release: Sep 2005
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Todd Solondz
CAST: Matthew Faber • Angela Pietropinto • Bill Buell • Emani Sledge
Risky Business (1983)
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Paul Brickman
CAST: Tom Cruise • Rebecca De Mornay • Joe Pantoliano • Richard Masur
The Man Without a Face (1993) RT 67% / Audience 64%
DVD release: Feb 2004
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Mel Gibson
CAST: Mel Gibson • Nick Stahl • Margaret Whitton • Fay Masterson
The Mean Season (1985) RT 57% / Audience 32%
DVD release: May 2001
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and ... (more)
GENRES: Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Phillip Borsos
CAST: Kurt Russell • Mariel Hemingway • Richard Jordan • Andy García
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape (1998)
An in-depth look at the making of this cult classic (more)
GENRES: Documentary
DIRECTION: Michael Matessino
CAST: John Carpenter • Kurt Russell • Rob Bottin • Bill Lancaster
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Science Fiction • Western
DIRECTION: William Dear
CAST: Fred Ward • Peter Coyote • L.Q. Jones • Tracey Walter
Walker (1987) RT 40% / Audience 65%
DVD release: Feb 2008
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • Western
DIRECTION: Alex Cox
CAST: Ed Harris • Richard Masur • Rene Assa • Rene Auberjonois
Semi-Tough (1977) RT 88% / Audience 32%
DVD release: May 2001
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Michael Ritchie
CAST: Burt Reynolds • Kris Kristofferson • Jill Clayburgh • Robert Preston
My Girl (1991) RT 50% / Audience 78%
DVD release: May 1998
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Howard Zieff
CAST: Anna Chlumsky • Macaulay Culkin • Dan Aykroyd • Jamie Lee Curtis
My Girl 2 (1994) RT 27% / Audience 46%
DVD release: Dec 2002
Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, ... (more)