John Colicos Movies

Three aging Klingon Warriors arrive on Deep Space Nine to makes certain that a blood oath made 80 years earlier by Curzon Dax be fulfilled. Though startled to learn that Curzon Dax has metamorphosed into Jadzia Dax, the Klingons insist that she honor the oath. As a result, Dax is torn between honor and duty, a not uncommon dilemma on DS9. Though heavily disguised by the makeup staff, the Klingons are played by three highly recognizable character actors: John Colicos, Michael Ansara and William Campbell. First telecast March 26, 1994, "Blood Oath" was written by Peter Allan Fields. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This TV movie is not necessarily in defense of married man Michael Ontkean. That responsibility is taken by Judith Light, Ontkean's wife. When Ontkean is accused of murdering his mistress (Cynthia Sikes), his wife Light, a defense attorney, handles the case. Beyond the unavoidable emotional involvement, Light must wrestle with whether or not she really wants to ask her husband if he did it. In Defense of a Married Man is an exercise in the mundane, brightened by Stan Getz' jazz score. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In the thriller Shadow Dancing, the head of the Beaumont Theater of Dance has been haunted for decades by one of his dancers who died suddenly during a performance of "Medusa." Despite the bad memories surrounding "Medusa," the company is set to stage a production of the ballet nearly 50 years later, and a young dancer is obsessed with winning the title role. After she receives it, she begins to assume the physical and emotional characteristics of the woman who died years earlier, and as it gets closer to the actual production, it becomes apparent that she is headed toward her doom. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Can it be that the Unabomber caught Last Season during its very brief theatrical release? Christopher Gosch plays an ecology freak who endeavors to protect timid woodland creatures from thick-eared hunters. Gosch tries to draw attention to his efforts, but the hunters pay no attention. The lack of recognition eventually drives Gosch mad. And when Gosch gets mad, he gets even, in as destructive and horrific a manner as possible. It is this, coupled with the film's generous doses of female nudity, that earned Last Season its R rating. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In this grim horror movie, the only one ever made by director John Huston, patients from a psychiatrist's phobia group are being murdered in ways that reflect their deepest fears. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Peter Medak's The Changeling is among a handful of films, including The Haunting (1963), Ghost Story (1981), and Lady in White (1988), that have successfully recreated the intimate, drawing-room atmosphere of supernatural horror fiction. After his wife and daughter are killed in a snowbound car accident, classical composer John Russell (George C. Scott) relocates from New York to Seattle to teach at his alma mater. Looking for a quiet place to rest and continue writing music, he is referred Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere) at the Seattle Historical Preservation Society. Claire shows John a large, sparsely furnished estate in the outlying countryside. He takes the house, appreciating its remoteness and the solitude it might afford, and diverts himself by renovating and settling in. He even starts to compose, putting aside his older work in favor of a new, sentimental piece for the piano. It is not long, however, before he begins having nightmares about the accident that killed his wife and daughter. Possibly because of this trauma, he is open to communications from the house's ghostly occupants. Pursuing a loud, repetitive pounding noise in an upper room, he stumbles on the apparition of a young boy drowning in a tub. Working together with Claire, John discovers frightening parallels between this vision and buried events from the house's past. Horror writer M.R. James once said that his goal as a writer was to make the reader feel "pleasantly uncomfortable." Those looking for a similar experience in movies will appreciate The Changeling as a gem in the horror genre. ~ Anthony Reed, Rovi

An angelic representative of the race that spawned the demonic Count Iblis (the villain in the two-part War of the Gods) anoints Apollo (Richard Hatch) as the potential savior of Mankind. Sent to Terra in the guise of a long-lost astronaut, Apollo must prevent a nuclear holocaust at the hands of the dreaded Eastern Alliance. "Experiment in Terra" was later combined with "The Return of Starbuck", an episode of the Battlestar Galactica spinoff Galactica 1980, and reissued as a two-hour "TV movie", also titled Experiment in Terra. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In Part One of "Greetings from Earth", the Galactica encounters an "ancient" space shuttle that has seemingly originated on the elusive 13th Colony--namely, the Earth. On board the shuttle, six people are in a state of suspended animation. Once awakened, the six strangers hold out hope to the Colonists that their long and frustrating search for the 13th Colony is at last at an end. Veteran song-and-dance men Ray Bolger and Bobby Van head the guest cast. Originally telecast as a two-hour "special", "Greetings from Earth" has since been reedited as two one-hour episodes for syndication. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Believing that they have finally arrived at the 13th Colony (formerly known as Earth), the Galactica crew becomes a bit careless--thereby leaving themselves open for attack by a Cylon Base Star. Tired of running from their enemy, Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) boldly lead a final--and very possibly suicidal--counterratack against the Cylons. Though this was the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, the saga continued in the spinoff series Galactica 1980. "The Hand of God" was later combined with the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Lost Warrior" and reissued as the two-hour "TV movie" The Phantom in Space. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In this drama, a prestigious lawyer chucks it all to begin a quest for his long-lost son who is now living somewhere in Hawaii. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Several episodes of the TV series were edited together to create this Battlestar Galactica full-length feature. The ship is stranded in space without fuel, and an impending attack by the Cylon robots must be stopped. Two commanders, Commander Adama (Lorne Green) and Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges), have differing views on how to defeat their enemies. ~ John Bush, Rovi