Movies starring Nat

Let's get this straight from the start: Slither isn't great art, but that doesn't mean it isn't good entertainment. One of a growing number of horror/comedy casseroles, the film provides its share of tasty mouthfuls - at least up to a point. Putt...

Samuel L. Jackson is on record as saying this movie isn't for critics. He's right about that. The problem is, it's not for many other people, either. Unless they're stoned. Or drunk. Or just enjoy making fun of bad movies (in other words, the M...

Solaris may be the first big budget science fiction motion picture that belongs in an art house rather than a multiplex. The movie bears a stronger resemblance to 2001: A Space Odyssey than to Star Wars, with an emphasis on ideas over action. Tho...

Solo Mio is pretty much what one could reasonably expect from a Kevin James romantic movie: genial, good-natured, and ultimately pretty bland. Distributed by Angel Studios, which applies a "seal of approval" based on Hays Code-like metrics, th...

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes: Macbeth Act IV, Scene 1 The cliché goes like this: They don’t make ‘em like they used to. And, at least in the case of Something Wicked This Way Comes, ne’er a truer wor...

The villain of Species -- a new science fiction/action/thriller/gorefest from director Roger Donaldson -- is a sexy young alien named Sil (Natasha Henstridge). For most of the film, her primary problem is a massive case of sexual frustration. Eve...

There’s little doubt that the films of Andrei Tarkovsky represent an acquired taste. The celebrated Soviet filmmaker’s style is so antithetical to modern cinema that it requires patience and stamina to become involved in any of his picture...

For the first time in the seventeen-year run of the successful Star Trek movie franchise, there is no Captain Kirk. Star Trek: First Contact, the eighth entry into the motion picture series, is the first to rely exclusively on the crew of The ...

Despite a reasonably original story line, familiar characters, first rate special effects, and the hallmark meeting between Captains Kirk (William Shatner) and Picard (Patrick Stewart), there's something fundamentally dissatisfying about this, the ...

In the wake of the rousingly successful Star Trek: First Contact, the movie that brought the franchise back from the moribund wasteland of entries 5, 6, and 7, comes feature film #9, Star Trek: Insurrection. The good news for Trekkers and casual m...