When Michael Calls (1972)
Feb 8, 2022Phone Calls from a Dead Child
TV movie that comes with a great opening hook – a family receive phone calls from a brother who died 15 years earlier
Ben Gazzara
The Neptune Factor: An Undersea Odyssey (1973)
Apr 10, 2002Submarine Adventure
Underwater adventure movie that tries to emulate 2001: A Space Odyssey, this has a bad movie reputation
Too Tired to Die (1998)
Feb 24, 2001Personified Death/Indie Comedy
Quirky indie film where a man encounters various strange people after learning he has 24 hours left to live
Summer of Sam (1999)
Jul 12, 1999True Life Serial Killer/Urban Paranoia
A Spike Lee film, a fictional work set during the real-life Son of Sam killings, although Lee seems less interested in the true crime aspect than the various storylines of his characters
Believe (2000)
May 24, 2000Children's Ghost Story
A children's ghost story that is written with uncommon depth and care and directed with reasonable effect
13 (2010)
Jan 12, 2011Russian Roulette Gambling
The English-language remake of the Georgian 13 Tzameti about underground Russian Roulette gambling. This has an impressive cast line-up but lacks the stark tension of the original