Pacific Heights (1990)
Feb 6, 2000Psycho Tenant
Thriller in which landlords Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith's lives are terrorised by psychopathic tenant Michael Keaton
Matthew Modine
Equinox (1992)
May 28, 2010Futuristic Film Noir
A follow-up to Alan Rudolph's Trouble of Mind, a work of neo-Film Noir in a futuristic setting where Matthew Modine plays twins who are drawn into underworld dealings
Fluke (1995)
Nov 24, 2002Man Reincarnates as a Dog
A beautifully made adaptation of a non-horror James Herbert novel in which a dog realises that is a reincarnated Matthew Modine and sets out to reunite with his human son
Flowers for Algernon (2000)
Feb 3, 2008Experiment Turns Intellectually Handicapped Man Into a Genius
Matthew Modine stars in the remake of the classic story about an experiment that turns an intellectually handicapped man into a genius. Everything comes in the simplistic emotions of a tv movie
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
Feb 12, 2005Revisionist Fairytale
TV mini-series co-produced between Hallmark Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company that offers an intriguing deconstruction of the fairytale although eventually proves to be a modernised replaying that reverses the sympathies
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
May 2, 2001Genre Director Documentary
Documentary about the life of Stanley Kubrick made by his brother-in-law that lifts the veil on the mystique that surrounded Kubrick in his later years and gives a good deal of insight into his working processes
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Jul 19, 2012Comic-Book Superhero
The Dark Knight is a hard act to follow and Christopher Nolan almost does but not quite. The story keeps Batman off-screen for half the film. Tom Hardy's Bane dominates the show, while Catwoman is surprisingly subdued
Altar (2014)
Sep 21, 2015Haunted House
Nick Willing is a genre director who has consistently impressed. Here he ventures into the English ghost story where your expectation is that he is going to turn the genre on its head – only he doesn't
47 Meters Down (2017)
Jun 12, 2017Trapped on the Ocean Floor in a Shark Cage
This has an incredibly claustrophobic premise – two girls trapped on the ocean floor in a cage surrounded by sharks as their air supplies run out – that leaves the hairs rising on the back of your neck
Wrong Turn (2021)
Mar 19, 2021Backwoods Brutality
Reimagining of the long-running Wrong Turn series of Backwoods Brutality films, this does imaginative things with the set-up and emerges as the best of the series so far