Maury Chaykin Archives

Curtains (1983)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 27, 2015Slasher Film

Slasher film that is more like an Agatha Christie whodunnit, this comes with an appealing level of meta-fictionality. Mostly, it is an actor's film and has been set-up to allow its name cast to do amazing things

Director: Richard Ciupka

Actors: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Lynne Griffin, …

Category: Horror

27 March 201513 January 2026 by Roog

Of Unknown Origin (1983)

Rating: ★★★½

May 20, 2011Man vs an Intelligent Rat

Underrated film with Peter Weller as a Wall Street banker who has his life overturned in trying to deal with a tenacious, seemingly hyper-intelligent rat that invades his home

Director: George Pan Cosmatos

Actors: Peter Weller, Shannon Tweed, Jennifer Dale, Louis Del Grande, …

Category: Horror

20 May 20118 April 2026 by Roog

Defcon-4 (1985)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 13, 2001Nuclear Holocaust and After

A breath of originality in a decade overrun with Mad Max copies, a clever and original little film in which the crew of a space station return to Earth after the nuclear holocaust

Director: Paul Donovan

Actors: Tim Choate, Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, …

Category: Science Fiction

13 October 200122 September 2020 by Roog

The Vindicator (1986)

Rating: ★

Dec 20, 2000Killer Cyborg

Canadian film about a man rebuilt inside a cyborg body. What started as a Frankenstein film is turned into a copy of The Terminator

Director: Jean-Claude Lord

Actors: Pam Grier, David McIlwraith, Richard Cox, Maury Chaykin, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 December 20002 June 2025 by Roog

A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 20, 2009Kidnapping & Angelic Intervention Comedy

Danny Boyle eccentricity with Ewan McGregor as an inept kidnapper and Cameron Diaz as his more astute abductee. A head-scratching comedy that also throws gun-toting angels into the mix

Director: Danny Boyle

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, …

Category: Fantasy

20 February 200920 September 2019 by Roog

MouseHunt (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 17, 2000Men vs an Intelligent Mouse

The directorial debut of Gore Verbinski, this harnesses Babe-styled animatronics to essentially create a live-action Tom and Jerry cartoon with two comic villains being outwitted by a seemingly unkillable mouse

Director: Gore Verbinski

Actors: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken, Eric Christmas, …

Category: Fantasy

17 December 200021 March 2026 by Roog

Entrapment (1999)

Rating: ★

May 6, 1999Millennial Caper Thriller

Caper thriller with the gimmick of being set on the turning of the millennium, this is otherwise an empty-headed exercise where slick marketing triumphs over credible scripting over even connection between the leads

Director: Jon Amiel

Actors: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Will Patton, Ving Rhames, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 May 19996 October 2020 by Roog

Blindness (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 17, 2010Plague of Blindness

A hugely underrated film that depicts the brutal collapse of society that occurs when the entire world is affected by a plague that causes blindness. Directed in strong and powerful images

Director: Fernando Meirelles

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 April 201025 August 2020 by Roog