Michael Crichton's bestselling novel was both a high-tech thriller and source of controversy with its hot-button plot about a man's charge of sexual harassment against a female colleague and former lover. The movie, directed by Barry Levinson, turned these issues into a prurient thriller dressed up in glossy production values, virtual reality computer graphics and steamy sex between Michael ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Roma MaffiaDirected By: Barry Levinson
Although it received mixed reactions from critics and audiences alike when released in 1998, this supernatural thriller benefits from a sustained atmosphere of anticipation and dread, and its combination of detective mystery and demonic mischief is handled with ample style and intelligence. Under the direction of Gregory Hoblit (who fared better with Primal Fear), Denzel Washington plays ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James GandolfiniDirected By: Gregory Hoblit
Twenty years before the Farrelly Brothers turned raunch into acceptable film comedy, the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker exploited it first. The college threesome made it big with Airplane in 1980, but this 1977 cinematic version of their live theatre show was the ground zero for their talents. Kentucky Fried Movie is a mish-mash of sketches, fake commercials, and ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Bill Bixby, John LandisDirected By: John Landis
When Warner Brothers was unable to secure the rights to Richard Preston's terrifying non-fiction book The Hot Zone (purchased by a rival studio), they took the basic idea of a fatal virus on the loose in the US, added Dustin Hoffman and director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) and produced an unusual thriller--a surprise hit--called Outbreak. The other picture, slated to star ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr.Directed By: Wolfgang Petersen
A somewhat contrived screenplay doesn't stop this thriller from serving up some of the most spectacular fire sequences ever committed to film. Like any Ron Howard production Backdraft is impressively slick and boasts a stellar cast, including Kurt Russell and William Baldwin. The actors play sibling rivals who have been at odds since the death of their firefighter father years earlier. ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason LeighDirected By: Ron Howard
A model for dozens of action films to follow, this box-office hit from 1967 refined a die-hard formula that has become overly familiar, but it's rarely been handled better than it was in this action-packed World War II thriller. Lee Marvin is perfectly cast as a down-but-not-out army major who is offered a shot at personal and professional redemption. If he can successfully train and discipline a ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Telly SavalasDirected By: Robert Aldrich
You wouldn't know it by watching the Batman movies they collaborated on, but this smart adaptation of John Grisham's novel proves that director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have some talent when the right project comes along. Schumacher had previously directed Grisham's The Client, and brought equal craft and intelligence to this story about a young Southern ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver PlattDirected By: Joel Schumacher
In this fast-paced, sci-fi/horror shoot-'em-up based on the Dark Horse comic book, Jamie Lee Curtis plays the navigator of an ocean-going tug. When a typhoon cripples their boat, the crew sails into the eye of the storm, where they discover a high-tech Russian communications and research vessel adrift. Only one Russian crewmember is still alive, raving about "intelligent lightning." They soon ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall BellDirected By: John Bruno
Though it bears little resemblance to the celebrated 1969 original starring Michael Caine, this 2003 remake of The Italian Job stands on its own as a caper comedy that's well above average. The title's a misnomer--this time it's actually a Los Angeles job--but the action's just as exciting as it propels a breezy tale of honour and dishonour among competing thieves. Inheriting Caine's role ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron, Jason StathamDirected By: F. Gary Gray
