Jennifer Jason Leigh Archives

Eyes of a Stranger (1981)

Rating: ★★

Jan 6, 2013Slasher Film

Entry from the heyday of the slasher film. Better plotted than most of its ilk, largely because it steals the plot from Hitchcock's Rear Window. Featuring a teenage Jennifer Jason Leigh in her first film role

Director: Ken Wiederhorn

Actors: Lauren Tewes, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Di Santi

Category: Horror

6 January 201320 October 2025 by Roog

The Hitcher (1986)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 17, 2003Psycho Hitchhiker

One of the best horror films of the 1980s, a grippingly suspenseful work where C. Thomas Howell is caught in a series of taunting psychological games across the interstate after offering psychopathic hitcher Rutger Hauer a ride

Director: Robert Harmon

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Category: Horror

17 February 200324 February 2026 by Roog

Heart of Midnight (1988)

Rating: ★

May 5, 2003Disturbed Psychology Psycho-Thriller

Highly confused psycho-sexual thriller in which Jennifer Jason Leigh inherits a nightclub and begins to experience hallucinations after moving in. It is not at all clear what is going on

Director: Matthew Chapman

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Coyote, Frank Stallone, James Rebhorn, …

Category: Horror

5 May 20035 July 2021 by Roog

Buried Alive (1990)

Rating: ★★

Jan 14, 2020Burial Alive and Revenge Scheme

The directorial debut from Frank Darabont who went on to make The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist. A wife and her lover plot to kill husband off by poisoning him only for him to survive and plot an elaborate revenge scheme

Director: Frank Darabont

Actors: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton

Category: Horror

14 January 20206 July 2022 by Roog

Single White Female (1992)

Rating: ★★

Jul 20, 2000Psycho Roommate

Part of the late 1980s/early 90s spate of post-Fatal Attraction psycho-thrillers featuring deranged women stalkers. A creepy Jennifer Jason Leigh moves into Bridget Fonda's apartment and then turns obsessive

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Stephen Tobolowsky, …

Category: Horror

20 July 200010 September 2020 by Roog

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 10, 2001Black Comedy/Divine Intervention

One of the Coen Brothers’ strangest films – imagine a homage to a 1940s Howard Hawks film conducted on giant oversized sets like something out of Brazil with a blacker-than-black sense of humour and angels in the mix

Director: Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Actors: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning, …

Category: Fantasy

10 September 20015 November 2025 by Roog

eXistenZ (1999)

Rating: ★★½

May 22, 1999Virtual Reality

David Cronenberg tackles Virtual Reality themes in an interestingly mind-bending work. Cronenberg has some interesting takes but this ended up being overshadowed by the phenomenon that was The Matrix the same year

Director: David Cronenberg

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 May 199931 January 2026 by Roog

In the Cut (2003)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 6, 2004Psycho-Sexual Thriller

Jane Campion makes one of the best post-Basic Instinct erotic thrillers with Meg Ryan as a teacher in New York caught between erotic awakening and a lurking killer

Director: Jane Campion

Actors: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Damici, …

Category: Horror

6 April 200429 May 2026 by Roog

The Machinist (2004)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 5, 2005Anorexia, Sleeplessness and Reality Blurrings

Fascinating film about reality blurrings. Haunted by Christian Bale's intensely physical performance for which he lost a third of his body weight to become an anorexic shell of a person

Director: Brad Anderson

Actors: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Sharian, Michael Ironside, …

Category: Fantasy

5 August 200522 September 2026 by Roog

The Jacket (2005)

Rating: ★★

Jan 27, 2006Time Travel

This starts off with an amnesiac, possibly hallucinating Adrien Brody who is accused or murder and locked in an asylum, before eventually opening up into a time travel film akin to Twelve Monkeys

Director: John Maybury

Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 January 200618 May 2026 by Roog

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 4, 2009Meta-Fiction and Surrealism

Mind-bending Charlie Kaufman meta-fiction in which Philip Seymour Hoffman creates a vast theatre project that drags on for years and starts to merge into his own life

Director: Charlie Kaufman

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, …

Category: Fantasy

4 April 200911 September 2020 by Roog

Morgan (2016)

Rating: ★★

Sep 10, 2016Artificially Intelligent Android

An A.I. film that is awfully similar to Ex Machina but sidesteps any questions about A.I., while the latter half becomes The Terminator before a frankly unbelievable twist ending sinks the film

Director: Luke Scott

Actors: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Toby Jones, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 September 201613 September 2026 by Roog

Amityville: The Awakening (2017)

Rating: ★★

Oct 29, 2017Haunted House

No less than the twentieth film spun out around The Amityville Horror. This Blumhouse revival emerges as marginally better than most films with Amityville in the name

Director: Franck Khalfoun

Actors: Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cameron Monaghan, McKenna Grace, …

Category: Horror

29 October 201717 November 2025 by Roog

Annihilation (2018)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 24, 2018Mysterious Alien Zone

Alex Garland's second directorial effort after Ex Machina. Clearly influenced by Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, this features a group venturing into an alien-affected zone where Garland does a fine job of creating a sense of the otherworldly

Director: Alex Garland

Actors: Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 March 201818 November 2025 by Roog

Possessor (2020)

Rating: ★★★½

May 8, 2020Bodyhopping Assassins

The second film from Brandon Cronenberg, a fascinatingly original work about body-hopping assassins

Director: Brandon Cronenberg

Actors: Christopher Abbott, Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 May 202025 February 2023 by Roog

The Woman in the Window (2021)

Rating: ★★

May 22, 2021Psycho-Thriller

Slickly produced psycho-thriller that comes mired in controversy, featuring Amy Adams as an agoraphobe who maybe witnesses a murder.

Director: Joe Wright

Actors: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, …

Category: Horror

22 May 20219 November 2024 by Roog

Lisey’s Story (2021)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 8, 2021Stephen King Adaptation/Secret Parallel World

Stephen King writes the script for a TV mini-series adaptation of what he considers to be his best book about a widow who discovers a secret parallel world

Director: Pablo Larrain

Actors: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Joan Allen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, …

Category: Fantasy

8 August 20217 November 2024 by Roog

Awake (2021)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 3, 2021World Affected by an Inability to Sleep

A unique and effective catastrophe film in which the whole world suddenly loses the ability to sleep, this follows a mother and her children as they travel through the chaos

Director: Mark Raso

Actors: Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Finn Jones, Ariana Greenblatt, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 December 202125 October 2025 by Roog