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Director: Henry Selick    More Info
Starring: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Paul Reubens, Ken Page, Edward Ivory, Susan McBride, Debi Durst

 This is a delightful Tim Burton film that uses stop-action and replacement animation. Halloweentown's hero, Jack Skellington (voice of Chris Sarandon, singing voice of Danny Elfman), takes a walk in the woods and enters a tree that is the doorway to Christmastown. Jack is overwhelmed with the good will he finds and now wants to take over Christmas by kidnapping Santa (voice of Edward Ivory) and do Christmas as only Halloweentown can. They capture Santa, but boogeyman Oogie Boogie (voice of Ken Page) re-captures Santa along with Jack's girlfriend Sally (voice of Catherine O'Hara), which leads to an inevitable confrontation. By story's end, Jack is riding in the sky in a coffin-like sled pulled by skeletal reindeer ready to deliver presents to the world's children.

Director: Mamoru Oshii    More Info
Starring: Peter Marinker, Sharon Holm, Edward Glen, William Roberts, Blair Fairman, David Jarvis, Briony Glassco, Alan Marsh, Martin McDougall

 The animated series continues as the giant Labor robots are now targeted for use as military weapons by disgruntled ex-military terrorists. After a major bridge is bombed, the Mobile Police–whose job it is to ensure proper use of the robots–are called in to save mankind. The animation continues to be impressive.

Director: Stephen Cornwell    More Info
Starring: Brad Johnson, Marjean Holden, Gerrit Graham, Cyril O'Reilly, James Green, John Christian Graas, Geoffrey Blake, Lisa Robins, David Wells, Larry Cedar

 Already experienced in time travel, David Herdeg (Brad Johnson) leaves 1993 America, which the Nazis overthrew 50 years before, and travels back to 1943 Japan to prevent the planned bombing of Washington, D.C., and change the course of history.

Director: Brian Yuzna    More Info
Starring: Melinda Clarke, J. Trevor Edmond, Kent McCord, Basil Wallace, Sarah Douglas, James T. Callahan, Mike Moroff, Sal Lopez, Abigail Lenz, Jill Andre

 That mysterious United States Army gas used in "Return of the Living Dead Part II" is the means for Curt (J. Trevor Edmond) to bring back to life his girlfriend Julie (Melinda Clarke) after she dies in an accident. Julie awakens but behaves strangely, and, after she tries to bite a Latino gang member, Curt and Julie flee to the sewers where more problems await.

Director: Fred Dekker    More Info
Starring: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn, John Castle, Jill Hennessy, CCH Pounder, Mako, Robert DoQui, Felton Perry, Daniel von Bargen

 In this second sequel to the original "RoboCop" film, Peter Weller has been replaced by Robert John Burke as RoboCop. This time around, the CEO (Rip Torn) of the mega-conglomerate that made RoboCop, Omni Consumer Products, is planning to replace the crumbling city of Detroit. RoboCop steps in amidst the mercenary army that is harassing the inner-city citizens and comes to their aid when their homes are scheduled to be demolished to make room for the new development.

Director: Clark Brandon    More Info
Starring: Jim Youngs, Tracy Griffith, Charles Napier, Michael J. Pollard, Jay Robinson, William Sanderson, Eloy Casados, John Putch, Saxon Trainor, Stacy Edwards

 Greedy land developer Drake (Jay Robinson) is buying up property in the town of Clear Sky and dumping toxic waste nearby. The result is bat-sized mosquitoes sucking human blood, and people are dying. Deputies Boone (Jim Youngs) and Tucker (Eloy Casados) investigate, and Boone calls in environmental agent Gordon Perry (William Sanderson). Meanwhile, Boone rekindles his romance with Sarah (Tracy Griffith) who has returned to town for a funeral. Gordon and Sarah discover the mosquitoes' nest in a mine. Sarah is trapped, but Gordon escapes to find help. Will there ever be a way to put an end to the ecological disaster?

Director: Kenneth Johnson    More Info
Starring: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas, Lauren Woodland, Sean Six, Jeff Marcus, Ron Fassler, Jenny Gago, Scott Patterson

 In this follow-up to the TV series, the alien "Newcomers" from the planet Tencton and humans coexist in L.A. Meanwhile, the "Purists" have developed a virus to infect them. Detective George Francisco (Eric Pierpoint), who is a Tencton, and his partner Matthew Sikes (Gary Graham) investigate. But more problems arise when Ahpossno (Scott Patterson) is sent from Tencton to capture the "Newcomers" and take them back to a world of slavery.

Director: Richard Pepin    More Info
Starring: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Richard Norton, Stacie Foster, Abby Dalton, Joseph Ruskin, John Aprea, Steve Burton, Jim Maniaci, David Barnathan, Edward Blanchard

 Nearly indestructible cyborg "Cyber-Trackers" hunt down and execute criminals in the near future. When secret service agent Eric Phillips (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) finds out that all is not on the up-and-up with the new police force, he becomes a target. And the kick-boxing begins.

Director: Kensho Yamashita    More Info
Starring: Megumi Odaka, Jun Hashizume, Zenkichi Yoneyama, Akira Emoto, Towako Yoshikawa, Yosuke Saito, Kenji Sahara, Akira Nakao, Koichi Ueda, Kenpachiro Satsuma

 Cells from Godzilla hook up with those from Biollante (a monster defeated by Godzilla), undergo a transformation in a black hole, and head to Earth as Space Godzilla to do battle. Meanwhile, Godzilla has a new threat to deal with at home: Mogera who was created to defeat Godzilla. But now, Mogera must team with Godzilla and Godzilla Jr. to take on the new threat from space.

Director: Steve Wang    More Info
Starring: David Hayter, Kathy Christopherson, Bruno Giannotta, Stuart Weiss, Christopher Michael, Billi Lee, Jim O'Donoghoe, J.D. Smith, Alisa Merline, Wes Deitrick

 Sean (David Hayter) has survived to fight another day as host to the "Guyver," a mechanical device that makes him invincible. He is at the scene of an archaeological dig that reveals the ancient alien spaceship that brought the evil Zoanoids to Earth. But the Chronos Corporation who made the Zoanoids intend to protect their secrets. This sequel has a completely new cast–and a lower budget.

Director: Seth Pinsker    More Info
Starring: Raphael Sbarge, Kate Hodge, Jovin Montanaro, Christopher Murphy, Michael Weldon, Michael A. Nickles, Tony DiBenedetto, Tom Tayback, Honey Lauren, Garvin Funches

 This follow-on to the successful "The Hidden" is a slow, cheap effort. We now find out that the bad alien was not quite destroyed; it was able to leave pods behind, which now spawn. A new "good" alien teams with the daughter of the original film's hero to handle this problem.

Director: Andrew Morahan    More Info
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger, Mako, Raoul Trujillo, Jean-Pierre Perusse, Mark Neufeld, Frederick Y. Okimura, Daniel Do, Gabriel Kakon

 In this third Highlander installment, Connor MacLeod/Russell Nash (Christopher Lambert) joins forces with Alex/Sarah (Deborah Kara Unger) to fight the evil Kane (Mario Van Peebles). It isn't long before Connor and Alex realize that they were lovers during the French Revolution.

Director: Kenneth Branagh    More Info
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, Ian Holm, Richard Briers, John Cleese, Robert Hardy, Cherie Lunghi

 When 19-year-old Mary Shelley's husband, Lord Byron, challenged her to write a ghost story, she master-minded "Frankenstein" with the underlying message warning scientists to be careful of future implications from their experiments. To that end, she showed the dangers involved when Dr. Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) creates a living creature (Robert De Niro).

Director: Sam Irvin    More Info
Starring: Richard Joseph Paul, Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, Meg Foster, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Julie Newmar, Carel Struycken, George Takei, Musetta Vander, Isaac Hayes

 A Western town exists on the planet Oblivion, and the town is being terrorized by Redeye (Andrew Divoff). After he kills the sheriff, the sheriff's son, Zach (Richard Joseph Paul), a pacifist, arrives on the scene. Will Redeye prompt Zach into action? The idea was good, but that's about all for this film.

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith    More Info
Starring: Parker Stevenson, Dirk Benedict, Erin Gray, Chad Everett, Michael Pate, Christopher Pate

 Parker Stevenson was abducted by space aliens, but, of course, no one believes him. Then, after a UFO is shot down by the Air Force, the government can't cover this up, so uses Stevenson to communicate with a survivor of the UFO.

Director: Don Coscarelli    More Info
Starring: Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Gloria Lynne Henry, Kevin Connors, Angus Scrimm, Brooks Gardner, Cindy Ambuehl, John Davis Chandler, Beau Lotterman

 Mike and Reggie (A. Michael Baldwin and Reggie Bannister) continue their pursuit of that supernatural mortician, the terrible Tall Man (Angus Scrimm). But Mike is captured by the bad guy and is being brought into the "other side." Reggie, with two others, continues to home in on the Tall Man despite ever-increasing flying silver spheres and the resurrected dead.

Director: Stuart Orme    More Info
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Richard Belzer, Keith David, Will Patton, Tom Mason, Yaphet Kotto, Dale Dye, Benjamin Mouton

 A flying saucer lands in rural Iowa, and the aliens try to take control of the residents by turning them into puppets. U.S. security agent Andrew Nivens (Donald Sutherland) and his team–Sam (Eric Thal), Jarvis (Richard Belzer), and Dr. Mary Sefton (Julie Warner)–try to stop the extraterrestrial beings from carrying out their nasty plot. Special effects and Sutherland are the redeeming qualities in this film, which is based on top sci-fi novelist Robert A. Heinlein's book.

Director: Jeremy Kagan    More Info
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Xander Berkeley, Bob Gunton, Kim Greist, Peter MacNicol, John M. Jackson, Nick Searcy, Charles Martin Smith

 Jesse (Kyle MacLachlan) attends a military reunion in 1977 with the intent of clearing his name from an incident 30 years previously when he was assigned to investigate a possible extraterrestrial crash landing. He had been the fall guy for a cover-up, and what he learns at the reunion indicates that the deceit may be bigger than he thought. There could even be aliens among us.

Director: David Carson    More Info
Starring: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Malcolm McDowell, Whoopi Goldberg, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Alan Ruck

 Retired officers James T. Kirk (William Shatner), "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) are guests on the maiden voyage of Enterprise-B when disaster strikes. Kirk is presumed dead, but he is really trapped in the Nexus purgatory. Now, 78-years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue Dr. Soran (Malcolm McDowell) who, unknown to Picard, is plotting to destroy the world. When Picard realizes that Soran presents a real danger, he convinces Kirk to leave his comfort zone in purgatory and come to his aid. This is a milestone film in that two generations of starship officers, Kirk and Picard, work together to stop an alien from destroying the universe.

Director: Winrich Kolbe    More Info
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Colm Meaney, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, John de Lancie, Denise Crosby

 It's hard for Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the Enterprise crew to remember where or when they are, as they bounce back and forth between the past, present, and future. Meanwhile, a space anomaly must be figured out in this film, the swan song for the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series.

Director: Roland Emmerich    More Info
Starring: James Spader, Kurt Russell, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz, Mili Aveital, Leon Rippy, John Diehl, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou

 An Egyptologist, Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader), interprets the hieroglyphics on a huge stone and thus opens the door to the realm of outer space. Jackson joins an expedition, led by Col. Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell), to a far-away galaxy in search of civilization's beginnings.

Director: Steven E. DeSouza    More Info
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Simon Callow, Roshan Seth, Wes Studi, Byron Mann, Grand L. Bush

 This comic book, action flick is formed around a video game, "Street Fighter," and kids will recognize most of the set and action from the game. A colonel (Jean-Claude Van Damme) for a U.N. type organization drops into Southeast Asia to bring feuding warlords to their knees. This was Raul Julia's last film before his untimely death.

Director: Richard Pepin    More Info
Starring: Jack Scalia, Evan Lurie, Erin Gray, Bobby Johnston, Jennifer MacDonald, Vernon Wells, Deron McBee, Martin E. Brooks, Nick DeMauro, Sean Moran

 T-Force is the name of the "cybernaut" police team in the early 21st century. After a shootout where innocent people are inadvertently killed, the team is ordered to be disbanded. The members then fend for themselves in an effort to survive outside the law, and police officer Jack (Jack Scalia) is given the duty of tracking down the renegades. Jack reluctantly accepts help from Cain (Bobby Johnston) who is the only cyborg that respects law and order. Plenty of action follows, and, by the end of the hunt, Jack learns to respect Cain.

Director: Peter Hyams    More Info
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Kenneth Welsh, Gloria Reuben, Scott Bellis, Jason Schombing, Scott Lawrence, Brent Woolsey

 As a timecop, Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is sent to an earlier era to stop Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) who is attempting to rearrange events of the past to alter the future and establish a monopoly on time travel through which he can retrieve Civil War gold to finance his campaign to become President. When Walker arrives in the past, he discovers that McComb had ordered an attack years before that resulted in the murder of Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara). With this knowledge, will Walker be able to save Melissa's life?

Director: David Nutter    More Info
Starring: Tim Thomerson, Clabe Hartley, Stacie Randall, Ty Miller, Teri Ivens, Rona Hartner, Alan Oppenheimer, Stephen Macht, Mark Arnold, Lochlyn Munro

 Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) should have taken care of all the Trancers by now but–wait! He is off on a mission, and his time machine is broken by a plant creature from his last mission. Jack ends up in another dimension at a place run by vampires. He (somehow) determines that these are another strain of Trancers. Interestingly, they all have Shakespearian names. Jack joins a resistance group to overturn the evil leadership. Two more sequels follow.