Underrated Movie of the Week

Bringing Out the Dead, 1999, dir. Martin Scorsese, starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Antony, Mary Beth Hurt, Cliff Curtis, Nestor Serrano, Aida Turturro, Martin Scorsese and Queen Latifah

Underrated Movie of the Week

(after some time off, here we are)



Psycho, 1998, dir. Gus Van Sant, starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H Macy, Robert Forster, Phillip Baker Hall, Anne Haney, Rita Wilson, James Remar, Rance Howard, Chad Everett & James LeGros

Underrated Movie of the Week

Day of the Triffids, 1962, dir. Steve Sekely, starring Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Jannette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Jones, Alison Leggatt, Colette Wilde, Ewan Roberts and Janina Faye

Underrated Movie of the Week

Erin Brockovich, 2000, dir. Steven Soderbergh, starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Conchata Ferrell, Pat Skipper, Jack Gill and Marg Helgenberger

Julia winning the Oscar was the worth thing to happen for this (amazing) movie. Shame.

Underrated Movie of the Week

U-Turn, 1997, dir. Oliver Stone, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Jon Voight, Claire Danes, Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Bob Thornton, Julie Hagerty, Ilia Volokh, Valery Nikolaev, Brent Briscoe, Bo Hopkins and Laurie Metcalfe.

Sure, pretty much everyone hates this movie, but I enjoy it for being so completely and utterly bonkers. It was also back when Jennifer Lopez was an interesting up-and-coming actress. It feels like a lifetime ago, doesn't it?

Underrated Movie of the Week

The Last Seduction, 1994, dir. John Dahl, starring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, Bill Nunn, Dean Norris, Brien Varady, Donna Wilson and JT Walsh

Underrated Movie of the Week

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, 1993, dir. Bill Duke, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimi, Maggie Smith, Lauryn Hill, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickles, James Coburn, Michael Jeter, Wendy Makkena, Ryan Toby, Brad Sullivan, Robert Pasterelli and Sheryl Lee Ralph

(you've probably forgotten how this is the best movie ever made, right?!)

Underrated Movie of the Week

Josh and S.A.M., 1993, dir. Billy Weber, starring Jacob Tierney, Noah Fleiss, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joan Allen, Chris Penn, Udo Kier and Jake Gyllenhaal (well he's in it at least)

Underrated Movie of the Week

Femme Fatale, 2002, dir. Brian de Palma, starring Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Antonio Bandares, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouanay, Edouard Montoute and Rie Rasmussen

(In honour of the opening of the Cannes Film Festival. And below, for your enjoyment, the most amazing teaser trailer of all time. Seriously. It's so simple yet so good.)

Underrated Movie of the Week

The Cell, 2000, dir. Tarsem Singh, starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Dylan Baker, Jake Webber, Tara Subkoff and Jake Thomas.

Underrated Movie of the Week

Darkman, 1991, dir. Sam Raimi, starring Liam Neeson, Francis McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, Nelson Mashita, Jessie Ferguson and Rafael H Robledo

Underrated Movie of the Week

Holes, 2003, dir. Andrew Davis, starring Shia LeBeouf, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Khleo Thomas, Tim Blake Nelson, Jake M Smith, Byron Cotton, Brenden Jefferson, Miguel Castro, Max Kasch, Noah Politiek, Zane Holtz, Steven Kozlowski and Patricia Arquette.

Underrated Movie of the Week

April Fools Day, directed by Fred Walton, Starring Deborah Foreman, Amy Steel, Ken Olandt, Griffin O'Neale, Thomas F Wilson, Deborah Goodrich, Leah Pinsent, Clayton Rohner, Jay Baker, Pat Barlow & Tom Heaton.

Somewhat ironically, I am totally serious. Watch it now.

"Please god, let it be ding-dongs"

Underrated Movie of the Week

Wes Craven's New Nightmare, 1994, dir. Wes Craven, Starring Heather Langenkarp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes, Wes Craven, Bob Shaye, John Saxon and David Newsom.

Underrated Movie of the Week

One from the Heart, 1982, dir. Francis Ford Coppola, starring Teri Garr, Fererick Forrest, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinksi, Lainie Kazan and Harry Dean Stanton.

"When Francis Ford Coppola Makes A Love Story... Don't Expect Hearts And Flowers."

Underrated Movie of the Week

New York, New York, 1977, dir. Martin Scorsese, starring Liza Minnelli, Robert DeNiro, Lionel Stander, Mary Kay Place and Georgie Auld.

Start spreading the news
I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York
These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
And make a brand new start of it
New York, New York
I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps
To find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap
These little town blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York, New York.

I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps
To find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap
These little town blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York, New York.

Underrated Movie of the Week

Titus, 1999, dir. Julie Taymor, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Harry Lennix, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Colm Feore, Matthew Rhys, Angus Macfadyen, Constantine Gregory, Laura Fraser & Osheen Jones

Underrated Movie of the Week

Last Exit to Brooklyn, 1989, dir. Uli Edel, starring Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jerry Orbach, Burt Young, Stephen Baldwin, Peter Dobson, Jason Andrews, James Lorinz, Sam Rockwell, Maia Danziger, Alexis Arquette and Ricki Lake.

Underrated Movie of the Week

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, 2002, dir. Jill Sprecher, starring Alan Arkin, Matthew McConaughey, Clea Duvall, John Turturro, Amy Irving, Alex Burns, David Connolly, Richard Council, Shawn Elliot, Frankie Faison, Malcolm Gets, Peggy Gormley, Walt MacPherson, James Murtaugh, Barbara Sukowa, Tia Texada and William Wise.

(Let it be known that this was the performance that Alan Arkin should have been nominated for and actually won for.)

Underrated Movie of the Week

The Ref, 1994, dir. Ted Demme, starring Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey, Robert Steinmiller Jr, Glynis Johns, Christine Baranski, Adam LeFevre, Phillip Nicoll, Ellie Raab, Richard Bright & Raymond Barry