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
Timothy Hutton
Made in Heaven (1987)
Nov 8, 2001Afterlife Romance
A quite magical film in which Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis fall in love in the afterlife and then try to find the each other after they are reborn into the world of the living
The Dark Half (1993)
Aug 4, 2001Writer's Evil Doppelganger/Stephen King Adaptation
George Romero's adaptation of a Stephen King novel with writer Timothy Hutton haunted by an evil alter ego. Underrated and quite possibly the King adaptation that is the most faithful to its source material
The Temp (1993)
Aug 29, 2001Psycho Secretary
A Fatal Attraction copycat in which executive Timothy Hutton finds that seductive temp secretary Lara Flynn Boyle is killing off all rivals at his firm. This has the reputation as a Golden Turkey classic.
Deterrence (1999)
Mar 13, 2000Impending Nuclear War
A thriller with Kevin Pollak as the US President caught at a diner by a blizzard where he is faced with the hard choice of whether or not to launch a nuclear attack on Iraq
WW 3 (2001)
Jul 31, 2010Biowarfare Outbreak Thriller
A routine biowarfare outbreak thriller that holds a fascination in that it imagines the attacker to be al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden two months before 9/11
Secret Window (2004)
Apr 19, 2004Sinister Stranger/Stephen King Adaptation
Stephen King adaptation with Johnny Depp as a writer in a cabin in the woods harassed by mysterious stranger John Turturro. Screenwriter David Koepp directs a marvellously chill Turturro with lots of twisty surprises
5ive Days to Midnight (2004)
Nov 21, 2018Briefcase from the Future
Mini-series with the intriguing premise of Timothy Hutton receiving a briefcase from the future with clues that foretells his death in five days time. This befalls utterly predictable handling and is padded out to fill a five-hour slot
The Last Mimzy (2007)
Dec 27, 2007Toys from the Future
Adaptation of a classic SF short story about children's toys from the future that give them expanded mental powers. Much of the story has been dropped in favour of banal New Age thinking
The Alphabet Killer (2008)
Aug 7, 2011Search for a True-Life Serial Killer
This claims to be based on an unsolved true-life serial killer case from the 1970s, although dumps all but a handful of facts in favour of a B-movie thriller plot about a detective with mental illness
The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Dec 22, 2018Haunted House
The original The Haunting is the finest ghost story ever made. One was sceptical that this remake as a tv mini-series of ten 50 minute episodes would come anywhere near that. Happily, Mike Flanagan proved me wrong.