A madcap, magical heist across time and space, TIME BANDITS (1981) features a colorful assortment of scoundrels shepherding a hapless young boy along on their misadventures. Among the cast of all-stars they encounter along the way – including John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Ralph Richardson and David Warner – is...

A terrifying science-fiction masterpiece from director Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver in the first of her iconic performances as Ripley, ALIEN (1979) was ranked as the seventh greatest sci-fi film of all time by the American Film Institute, in addition to earning a place on AFI’s accounting of the art form’s most thrilling narratives....

A terrifying science-fiction masterpiece from director Ridley Scott, ALIEN (1979) was ranked as the seventh greatest sci-fi film of all time by the American Film Institute, in addition to earning a place on AFI’s accounting of the art form’s most thrilling narratives. The film’s uncanny extraterrestrial antagonist was also counted by AFI among cinema’s most...

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001), which appeared on the American Film Institute’s anniversary list of the greatest American films of all time, was recognized in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, naming among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, the...