Life on the Edge (1989)
Sep 4, 2000Family Life in a Weird Alternate Society
A film where makeup effects artist Tom Burman takes the director's in this head-scratchingly strange film about a family set in a bizarre future world
Richard Portnow
The Spirit (2008)
Jan 11, 2009Comic-Book Superhero
A real head-scratcher. Legendary comic-book writer Frank Miller directs an adaptation of the famous Will Eisner comic-book. A completely madcap film that deserves to be rediscovered as a cult classic
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Nov 2, 2009Jailed Genius Enacts Vigilante Justice
Vigilante film where Gerard Butler exacts revenge against the justice system while imprisoned in a jail cell. The dispatches become entertainingly improbable to the point that Butler almost becomes a Batman villain in all but name
Hitchcock (2012)
Dec 1, 2012The Making of Psycho
A non-fiction film about Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho. The script does a great job nailing the psychological undertows and the parts are brought to life with several tour-de-force performances
In the Dark (2013)
Jul 14, 2021Blind Woman and Her Stalker
A bland tv movie thriller in which a blinded woman Elisabeth Röhm finds that her homecare aid is an obsessive stalker who has fixated on her