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- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.Character driven action movie about three men and a boat. And a shark, which because of many mechanical disasters is rarely seen onscreen. This helps the movie tremendously, as does the musical score. Suspense before gore, and great acting from Shaw, Dreyfus and Schneider.
DATE: 2004-09-15 - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.The best fictional serial killer movie ever made.
DATE: 2004-09-15 - DirectorMichael MannStarsWilliam PetersenKim GreistJoan AllenFormer FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.Great, medium budget serial killer police procedural from the director of Miami Vice. Great, based on the Thomas Harris book "Red Dragon", this is a prequel to the superior Silence Of The Lambs and the inferior Hannibal. Remade as "Red Dragon" with Edward Norton, Emily Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Seymour Hoffman, etc.
DATE: 2004-09-15 - DirectorTed KotcheffStarsSylvester StalloneBrian DennehyRichard CrennaA veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.Lean, character driven action movie. Highly influential, not only in spawning many sequels, but in paving the way for real Vietnam War movies 4 years later. It also helped fuel the Lone Superhero wave of the eighties.
DATE: 2004-09-15 - DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenMichael DouglasTamara TunieAn impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.Olliver Stone's great snapshot of the go-go eighties of Wall Street's takeover movement. Complete with beautiful people, hookers, cocaine and conspicuous consumption.
DATE: 2004-09-15 - DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsDonald PleasenceJamie Lee CurtisTony MoranFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.Again, highly influential movie that kicked off the entire "lone serial killer" movie trend of the eighties (Nightmare on Elmstreet, Friday The 13th, Children Of The Corn.) It spawned many sequels.
DATE: 2004-09-15 - DirectorClive BarkerStarsAndrew RobinsonClare HigginsAshley LaurenceA woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Classic science fiction thriller about a world filled with cyborg robots who revolt when they discover their own emotions. Fine performances from Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah,Joanna Cassidy and Sean Young as the rebellious cyborgs. Harrison Ford is the "Blade Runner" who must track them down in this movie based on prolific and depressed SciFi writer Philip K. Dick. Based on "Do Androids Dream Of Electric SheeP?".
DATE: 2004-09-15 - DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.Arnold's claim to fame after Conan. Very lean scifi thriller. Again based on a book by the great Philip K. Dick.
DATE: 2004-09-15