Rollover (1981)
Mar 5, 2000Western Economic Collapse
Jane Fonda and Kris Kristofferson star in a big-budget banking thriller where the US faces economic collapses
Josef Sommer
Iceman (1984)
Apr 27, 2003Revived Caveman
Excellent and underrated film about a caveman unthawed in the Arctic where attempts are made to help him adjust. This conducts the a creaky old story with modern scientific and anthropological realism
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Feb 8, 2005Android Boy
Barret Oliver plays an android boy on the run from his creators who shelters with a human family. This promptly employs all the cliches of the post-E.T. film
The Rosary Murders (1987)
May 2, 2005Catholic Serial Killings
Extremely good thriller from an Elmore Leonard script with Donald Sutherland as a Catholic priest who tries to stop a serial killer without violating the sanctity of the confessional
Dracula’s Widow (1988)
Aug 16, 2010Dracula's Wife in the Present-Day
Christopher Coppola is worlds apart in talent from his uncle Francis. Here he directs a weak vampire film with Sylvia Kristel in the title role and transformation effects that look datedly cheesy today
Chances Are (1989)
Jan 11, 2003Reincarnation Romantic Comedy
From the director of the hit Dirty Dancing, an inane romantic comedy in which Cybill Shepard thinks her daughter's boyfriend Robert Downey Jr is her reincarnated husband
Strange Days (1995)
Feb 2, 2003Near Future Social Disorder/The Millennium/Virtual Memories
A Kathryn Bigelow directed Cyberpunk film scripted by James Cameron concerning an illicit technology that can replay memories. This offers a powerful vision of a socially divided L.A. on the eve of the millennium
The Family Man (2000)
Dec 24, 2000Alternate Life Pathways
Brett Ratner conducts a likeable variation on It's a Wonderful Life with banker Nicolas Cage suddenly finding himself in an alternate life as a regular working class man with wife and kids
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Aug 25, 2002Nuclear Terrorism/Tom Clancy Adaptation
Fourth of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan films, which performs a confusing continuity reset to recast the role with the younger Ben Affleck. The film's release was delayed by 9/11, which makes the plot about nuclear terrorism on US soil seems absurdly tame in retrospect
The Invasion (2007)
Sep 9, 2007Invasion of the Body Snatchers Remake
The fourth film version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Nicole Kidman, this badly miscues many key scenes and is missing all the paranoid mood of the original film