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Though Jacob's Ladder is still one of the more underrated films on this list, it's still holds a huge sway on the horror genre, having inspired the Silent Hill game franchise, American Horror Story: Asylum, and more.

To that end, I think I may have underrated the film on my first viewing at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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He reportedly auditioned for a small part, and though the show's producers did not deem him right for the characterization, they felt so impressed by Eigenberg's presence that they created the character of Steve Brady especially for him, as an extension of his own personality; the plan, again, was to create a sincere, committed, down - to - earth male paramour to offset Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) cynicism.Though initially intended as a temporary part, the popularity of the character among viewers (and Eigenberg's onscreen chemistry with Nixon) led to Eigenberg's permanent inclusion on the show, as well as subsuquent movies.Circa 2002, Eigenberg expanded into film roles by playing the business partner of Richard Gere in Mark Pellington's underrated supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies.

Then, as told partly in flashback as Arthur (Harrelson) is being interviewed by a court - appointed psychiatrist (the underrated Sandra Oh), the safe distance that gives the audience derails the pace and the film becomes more serious than it ought to, no matter the subject matter and this results in it becoming every «realistic» work that looks down on the idea of either a superhero or the genre.

DICK DINMAN & EDDIE MULLER DISPENSE A DOUBLE DOSE OF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrews.

Into The Night, on the other hand, is a underrated comedy film which remains largely funny twenty - five years on.

The film concerns Ansel Roth (played here by the underrated Leland Orser), a down - on - his - luck writer who primarily deals with cults and the idea of deprograming victims.

After that, the young actor would gravitate more to comedy, reuniting with two of his Platoon stars for some of his better movies (Tom Berenger on the two Major League films and Keith David on the underrated, hilarious Men at Work).

Tuesday, August 21st marks Kay Francis day on TCM's Summer Under the Stars and the lineup of films should not only please her avid fans but also introduce newbies to this elegant underrated actress of the early sound era who is not that well known today.

While the film had found a VOD release through DirecTV three years ago, this marks the first official release for the pic that introduced the world to John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew, the duo who went on to direct M. Night Shyamalan's Devil, Quarantine and even the criminally underrated As Above, So Below.

Still, it's one of Kubrick's most odd and underrated films, and it's great that it's finally on Blu - ray.

Screenwriter Mark Protosevich (The Cell, I Am Legend, Thor, Oldboy) joins the Hyphenates to talk the key films of May 2015, ask how accurate the writing credits on Hollywood productions actually are, and look at the extraordinary films of the underrated Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi.

His swan song, Parade, sorely underrated by the small number of critics who've actually seen it, was a clean break from Hulot, and as such, feels more free than anything else Tati ever made — it's a difficult film for people who may be expecting another lighthearted, whimsical comedy, instead of an experimental film that uses a circus performance as its foundation, but in its own way, it's the ultimate Tati, an undiluted expression of what he loved to do and to see, and what hats to put on.

It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman - based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha - Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses -LSB-...]

This beautiful refurbishing of Georges Franju's film allows the underrated whodunit to assume its rightful place on the cinephile's mantle.

I don't pretend to understand everything that goes on in the «Alien» universe, but having enjoyed most of these films (including 2012's underrated «Prometheus»), I couldn't wait to see what director Ridley Scott had in store for us this time around.

With an underrated film comes an underrated actor in Sam Rockwell (Frost / Nixon, Iron Man 2) who pairs up with one of my favorites in Kevin Spacey to deliver a science fiction movie hell bent on breaking all the rules of genre - specific filmmaking.

Stan is likely best known for his role in the Marvel movies as Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier, but his career has spanned from Gossip Girl to underrated TV gems like NBC's ill - fated Kings and USA's Political Animals to films like Ricki and the Flash, The Martian, and The Bronze, where he played a hyper - competitive gymnastics coach with his eyes on the Olympics.

Coming off the heels of The Deep Blue Sea, probably the most underrated and misunderstood film of its year, Sunset Song is a period piece set in the cinegenic Scottish countryside of the 1930s, and based on a book by Lewis Grassic Gibon that's been called the most important Scottish novel of the 20th century.

Based on a true story the film looks lush and powerful and as a fan of Asante's Belle (an underrated gem of 2014) I can't wait to see what she does with such a poignant story.

One of my favorite things about this column is the opportunity it gives me to put in a word on behalf of an overlooked or underrated classic: a book or film that may have gotten respectful attention when it came out, but deserves more now.

Not concerned with the more realistic take that was tried (and mostly successful) with Casino Royale and (the criminally underrated) Quantum of Solace, Bond's twenty - third outing still maintains the focus on story and character like the previous two films, yet also getting back to the more fantasy elements that has made the character thrive for fifty years.

Here is one of the great, underrated film noirs — a movie whose reputation and stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.

There's not much to improve on apart from a simple modernization of the story (see: the return of the creepy clown doll), but while some moviegoers may be quick to turn their noses up at this updated version, the talent involved (including Gil Kenan, who directed the underrated animated film, «Monster House») suggests this might be the rare remake that isn't a complete waste of time.

This highly underrated film appears on DVD with commentary from Black, Kilmer, and Downey, plus a gag reel.

Animal Kingdom Rated R for violence, drug content and pervasive language Available on DVD and Blu - ray What I consider to be the most underrated film of the year is this Australian crime drama filled with powerhouse performances and a breathtaking script from writer / director David Michod.

As TCM's Oscar - celebratory month winds down, they've still got a few new ones to throw at us — the first musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, The Broadway Melody, shows on Monday; an actual good Merchant - Ivory film in A Room With a View turns up on Thursday; and fantastic underrated film noir The Killers plays on Thursday; finally, one of my personal all - time favorite films, Stage Door, hits the screen late Saturday / early Sunday (trust me, picture quality is higher than the still above; couldn't find a decent cap).

Here is one of the great, underrated film noirs — a movie whose stature was recognized early on by French critics and has continued to grow over the past half century.

The Atlantic's film critic weighs in on the underrated, the overrated, and why viewers can expect a big night for 12 Years a Slave, Dallas Buyers Club, and Gravity.

One of Ray's best and surprisingly most underrated films has just been released on DVD, In a Lonely Place (1951).

Key to the film's sustainability are some fine supporting performances from reliable faces like Jason Flemyng, Stephen Merchant and Minnie Driver, the latter of whom is enjoying a mini-revival on the strength of roles in the Conviction, Barney's Version and the underrated Hunky Dory.

This is mainly thanks to screenwriter Dan Fogelman, the man behind the underrated CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE and I feel this element of the film is probably a little undersold on this occasion.

Another point of reference is John Carpenter's underrated 1984 film Starman, which follows as its main characters evade the government on a cross-country chase.

The film premieres in NEXT, typically one of the most fascinating programs in any festival all year, and stars the underrated pair of Omari Hardwick and Meagan Good, two very different people who meet on the night of the 2016 election in Los Angeles.

On the other hand, there's a sense of warmth and community in a couple scenes in this film that are increasingly rare in contemporary film, and an underrated aspect of Ozu's films, one that, as I recall, is mostly absent from Hou Hsiao - hsien's Ozu tribute, the otherwise superior Café Lumière.

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If that is the case, that adds a level of excitement to Infinity as the studio is responsible for the underrated Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 console games, which went well beyond bringing the Pixar worlds to the gaming scene — they were each rather large in scope, had great replay value and shattered the idea that games based on films had to be subpar.

The Man Who Wasn't There is an underrated beauty from the Coens and encompasses every single, possible film noir trope, but twists it around and becomes a stamped on Coen-esque visionary nightmare.

He's already taken on such staples as the youth movie (Dazed and Confused), the romantic love story (Before Sunrise), and the western and crime movie (The Newton Boys); the last two — emotionally as well as visually lavish reworkings and rethinkings of Hollywood splendors — are probably his two most underrated films.

There are some action adjacent flicks on the list below, but add to that the best Fast and Furious film in 11 years with The Fate of the Furious, the criminally underrated John Wick 2, the rightfully beloved Wonder Woman, the kickass spy beats of Atomic Blonde, the daft so bad it's good silliness of Geostorm along with the more cerebral crime action found in the Safdie Brothers» Good Time.

The short film in question is Papers, Please: The Short Film, based on the cult classic 2013 indie title, Papers, Please (one of my personal favorite indie titles, which I now feel I underrated in my original review).

Petzel took a revelatory look at the late, great Austrian painter Maria Lassnig's years in New York, from 1968 to 1980, Matthew Marks offered a treatise on the ultra-controlled, wildly underrated Peter Cain, Galerie Lelong presented a display of Ana Mendieta's vital films, Metro Pictures showed deep cuts by Bas Jan Ader, Craig F. Starr delivered a master class on Sylvia Plimack Mangold's early paintings of floors and rulers, Hauser & Wirth hosted not one but two incredible Philip Guston shows (the second, of Nixon drawings, is still on view, offering psychic balm in these dark times), Questroyal organized a jam - packed assemblage of paintings by the indefinable American mystic Ralph Albert Blakelock, and Jeffrey Deitch brought the traveling retrospective of the Pictures Generation original Walter Robinson to Robinson's hometown.