Black Widow (1987)
Aug 7, 1999Femme Fatale Psycho-Thriller
A sharp, sophisticated thriller reminiscent of 1940s film noir with FBI agent Debra Winger tracking Theresa Russell as a femme fatale who marries and kills her husbands
Theresa Russell
Track 29 (1988)
Aug 29, 2001Surrealism
This collaboration between Nicolas Roeg and Dennis Potter results in a mind-boggling blurring of dream, reality, symbolism and sexual obsession. A name cast are allowed their heads and go wild
Cold Heaven (1991)
Jul 15, 2024Mysterious Resurrection
Nicolas Roeg was one of the great directors of the 1970s, making works like Performance and Don’t Look Now. This was one of Roeg's last films where Mark Harmon is killed in an accident but makes a miraculous resurrection
Kafka (1991)
Jun 7, 2002Fictionalised Author Biopic/Mad Scientists
Steven Soderbergh's second film was this flop pseudo-biopic that places Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) alongside mad scientist elements and German Expressionist homages but fails to find much of Kafka's paranoid mood
Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Oct 8, 2001Human-Spider Hybrid/Superhero Gone Wrong
One of a spate of remakes of old AIP titles conducted in 2001, this spins the original giant spider amok film out into a superhero-gone-wrong take on Spider-Man
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
May 5, 2007Comic-Book Superhero
Last and by general opinion the least of the Sam Raimi-Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films. With three super-villains present, the plot feels as though it is bursting at the seams juggling the various origin stories and ongoing dramas, although Raimi still delivers some solid superheroic action scenes