piehawker's - Underrated List

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One fought to win. The other fought to survive. Two friends are pitted against each other by a corrupt boxing promoter in a brutal battle that threatens to destroy their friendship and lives. Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.

and James Marshall star as the talented amateurs who are exploited by the ruthless promoter Horn (Brian Dennehy) and his scout (Robert Loggia) in the fight of their lives.

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Scarlett Johansson is terrific in the visually stunning 'Ghost in the Shell', an action-packed adventure set in a future world where people are enhanced with technology.

Believing she was rescued from near death, Major (Johansson) becomes the first of her kind: a human mind inside an artificial body designed to fight the war against cyber crime. While investigating a dangerous criminal, Major makes a shocking discovery -the corporation that created her lied about her past life in order to control her. Unsure what to believe, Major will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery of her true identity and exact revenge against the corporation she was built to serve.

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In 1995, visionary writer/director Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) got the green light for his dream project: An epic adaptation of H.G. Wells 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.

But only days into production, an unprecedented storm of natural disasters, monstrous egos and disturbing imagery - along with chaos, insanity and witchcraft - would trigger perhaps the most infamous behind-the-scenes catastrophe in modern movie history. Now director/producer David Gregory (The Theatre Bizarre, Plague Town) reveals the untold story behind 'one of the all-time greatest cinematic train wrecks' in this 'wonderfully weird and gripping' documentary featuring never-before-seen footage, startling new interviews with actors Fairuza Balk, Marco Hofschneider and Rob Morrow, studio executives, crew members and - for the first time ever - the notoriously reclusive Stanley himself...

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A radical assault on the senses, Bullet in the Head portrays the harrowing adventures of three friends forced, by a random act of violence, to sacrifice the idyllic innocence of youth to the fanaticism and injustice of war.

Powerful, sweeping and uncompromising, John Woo pulls out all the stops to deliver a film of unforgettable intensity and emotional gravity that is guaranteed to set the pulse racing with some of the finest action sequences of his distinguished career.

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In this real-time, high-stakes thriller, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer, Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio.

During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.

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From the highly acclaimed Director and star of 'Amelie', comes the truly amazing story of one woman's journey to discover the truth behind her lover's disappearance, whilst battling against the secrecy and absurdity of War. In 1919, Mathilde (Audrey Tautou) was 19 years old.

Two years earlier, her fiance Manech (Gaspard Ulliel) left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle". It's written in black and white on the official notice. But Mathilde refuses to believe it. If Manech had died, she would know. A former sergeant tells her in vain that Manech died in the no man's land of a trench named Bingo Crepescule, in the company of four other men condemned to die for self-inflicted wounds. Her path ahead is full of obstacles but Mathilde is not frightened. Anything is possible to someone who is willing to challenge fate...

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Filmmaker Frank Pavich explores one of cinema's great "what ifs" in this documentary detailing Alejandro Jodorowsky's aborted feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's celebrated sci-fi novel Dune.

With the release of El Topo (1970) and its psychedelic follow-up The Holy Mountain (1973), Jodorowsky became not only a pioneer of psychedelic surrealism in film, but also the father of the "Midnight Movie". Following the success of those two films, the Chilean director began focusing all of his energies on translating Dune to the big screen. The film was to star Jodorowsky's own son Brontis along with a stunning cast that included Orson Welles, David Carradine, Mick Jagger, and Salvador Dali, with Pink Floyd providing the score, and art direction by H.R. Giger and Jean "Moebius" Giraud. Two years into the massive production, however, the film was suddenly and unceremoniously cancelled. Yet even today, numerous relics of that ambitious production - including thousands of enticingly vivid storyboards - still exist. In this film, Pavich offers movie lovers a tantalizing glimpse at a masterpiece that was never meant to be.

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Set in Glasgow in the 1970s, 'Ratcatcher' is seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old James Gillespie (William Eadie), a young boy haunted by a secret.

Feeling increasingly distant from his family, his only escape comes with the discovery of a new housing development on the outskirts of town where he has the freedom to lose himself in his own world. Enticed by a gang of older boys, James is thrown together with vulnerable fourteen-year-old Margaret Anne (Leanne Mullen) and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship which becomes their hesitant but touching experience of first love...

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The Hunter Is Tracking The Killer. But The Killer Is Setting The Trap. Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, R.

Lee Ermey, Ted Levine, William Fichtner It's a vicious game of cat and mouse: relentless FBI agent Frank LaCrosse steps outside his job to find the brilliant but nameless killer who has kidnapped his son. For over a year, he has been tracking the murderer across the country, but when the stakes become personal, he is removed from the case. Against orders from the Bureau, he continues his deadly manhunt. When a series of murders occurs in his district, a seasoned Amarillo sheriff finds himself torn between winning re-election and helping LaCrosse stay on the trail of the killer. From a death-filled motel room in Amarillo, to a snow-choked train pass through the Rockies, LaCrosse follows the tracks of a former railroad man and a mysterious young hitchhiker, one of whom may hold the secret of the search

Featurete is a surreal, comic vision of modern life in which the director's much-loved character, Monsieur Hulot - accompanied by a cast of tourists and well-heeled Parisians - turns unintentional anarchist when set loose in an unrecognisable Paris of steel skyscrapers, chrome-plated shopping malls and futuristic night spots.

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Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) is a trooper in Angel City, Circa 2247, mopping up the last of the disciples of the Martin Whistler. Whistler uses his psychic power to 'trance' those with weak minds and force them to obey his every desire.

Whistler had been thought to be dead by now, but he's alive and well, in the 20th century. Whistler plans to control the city. That's where Jack Deth fits in. Jack is sent back in time by inhabiting the body of his ancestor. His Name is Deth. He hunts trancers. Even In The 20th Century. The only problem is that Whistler's ancestor is a police detective, and he's already begun trancing people. With the help of Lena (Helen Hunt), A strong-minded punk rock girl, he must find and protect Hap Ashby, a former baseball pitcher now living on skid row, and face whistler in a final confrontation.

Hundreds of years after our civilisation was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London - now a giant predator city on wheels - from devouring everything in its path.

A filmmaker (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius) set out to expose the beautiful leader of a cult (Brit Marling), who claims to be from the future. But the more they explore, the more danger they face...

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Join Keanu Reeves and the master moviemakers of today for an eye-opening insight into the history of filmmaking.

With no-holds-barred interviews with big hitters such as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, George Lucas and James Cameron, Reeves presents a fascinating and candid look at the Film vs Digital controversy that currently dominates the industry. Witness the likes of Danny Boyle, David Lynch and Steven Soderbergh argue the relative merits of both, passionate and frank in equal measure. Is film dead? You be the judge.

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"The Nice Guys" takes place in 1970s Los Angeles, when down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired enforcer Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl.

During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.