The Battle of Shaker Heights 2003  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart, Billy Kay, Kathleen Quinlan, Shiri Appleby, William Sadler, Ray Wise, Philipp Karner, Anson Mount, Dale R. Simonton, Michael McShane
This coming-of-age story is set in Shaker Heights, an upper-middle class suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Two teenagers–Bart (Elden Henson) and Kelly (Shia LaBeouf)–come from very different backgrounds but join forces and use military strategy to take on a local bully.
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Bob Roberts 1992  R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tim Robbins
Cast: Tim Robbins, Alan Rickman, Giancarlo Esposito, Ray Wise, Rebecca Jenkins, John Ottavino, Pamela Reed, Gore Vidal, James Spader, Helen Hunt
The election process of United States politics is satirized in this film that was written and directed by its star, Tim Robbins.
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Cat People 1982 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Romance
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, Annette O'Toole, John Heard, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley Jr., Scott Paulin, John Larroquette, Frankie Faison, Ray Wise, Ron Diamond, Lynn Lowry, Tessa Richarde, Patricia Perkins, Berry Barajas
Nastassja Kinski stars as beautiful dress designer Irena Gallier with a bizarre family trait: when she makes love, she turns into a savage black panther and ravages her mate. The only one she can safely make love to is her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell)–another cat person. But she loves Oliver Yates (John Heard), the head of a zoo, whom she would kill if aroused. A good–and scary–film. Remake of the 1942 movie starring Simone Simon.
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 The Chase 1994  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Comedy / Thriller / Romance
Director: Adam Rifkin
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, Wayne Grace, Rocky Carroll, Ray Wise, Cary Elwes, Miles Gougal, Marshall Bell, Joe Sagal, Claudia Christian, Alex Morris, Marco Perella, Wirt Cain
Escaped convict Jackson Davis Hammond (Charlie Sheen) tries to reach the Mexican border with kidnapped heiress Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson) as his hostage–her BMW is the escape vehicle. By the time the adventure is over, police and television coverage create mayhem.
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 Dead End 2003 R, 85 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa
Cast: Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Mick Cain, Alexandra Holden, Billy Asher, Amber Smith, Karen S. Gregan, Steve Valentine, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Clement Blake
Frank (Ray Wise) has taken his family to his mother-in-law's for Christmas for 20 years, and this year he decides to take a short cut. This turns out to be a wrong decision as he picks up a woman and her baby, starting a chain deaths on the dark, dreary road.
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Good Night, and Good Luck 2005  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Clooney
Cast: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Ray Wise, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan, Thomas McCarthy, Matt Ross, Reed Diamond, Robert John Burke
This film recreates events surrounding the March, 1954, TV broadcast when journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) took on Senator Joseph McCarthy on his show, "See it Now." George Clooney's film inter-cuts between Murrow and the real Senator McCarthy bring a sense of reality to the film. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (David Strathairn), and Director.
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 Jeepers Creepers 2 2003  R, 103 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Victor Salva
Cast: Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck, Travis Schiffner, Eric Nenninger, Al Santos, Nicki Aycox, Garikayi Mutambirwa, Lena Cardwell, Thom Gossom Jr., Billy Aaron Brown, Marieh Delfino, Diane Delano
That flesh-eating beast, Creeper, has resurfaced, and its target is a busload of high-school baseball players, cheerleaders, and coaches. Oh my!
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One Missed Call 2008  PG-13, 87 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Eric Valette
Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe, Margaret Cho, Meagan Good, Rhoda Griffis, Dawn Dininger, Ariel Winter
In this remake of Takashi Miike's 2003 film, two of Beth's (Shannyn Sossamon) friends have died by violent means after receiving calls on their cell phones from the future; their own voices were heard as they were being killed. Now Beth receives her call and has just three days to get to the bottom of what is going on. She teams up with detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) whose sister had died under similar circumstances.
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Peaceful Warrior 2006 PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Salva
Cast: Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart, Tim DeKay, Paul Wesley, Ashton Holmes, B.J. Britt, Agnes Bruckner, Beatrice Rosen, Ray Wise, Scott Caudill, Matthew Prater
UCLA gymnast Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz), who dreams of competing in the Olympics, shatters his leg in a motorcycle accident. Dan finds new strength and understanding through the help of Socrates (Nick Nolte) and the beautiful Joy (Amy Smart) who help him find the wisdom in human spirit that transforms Dan into a peaceful warrior.
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Powder 1995 PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Salva
Cast: Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Brandon Smith, Susan Tyrrell, Ray Wise, Bradford Tatum, Missy Crider
Powder (Sean Patrick Flanery) is an albino who, after being raised in a farmhouse basement, discovers he has developed extraordinary powers.
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The Rift 1990  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: La Grieta
Endless Descent
Director: Juan Piquer Simon
Cast: Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair, John Toles-Bey, Edmund Purdom, Ely Pouget, Emilio Linder, Tony Isbert, Luis Lorenzo
Finding the cause of the disappearance of an experimental submarine is the mission for another experimental submarine, "Siren II." The crew encounters monsters of the deep during their quest.
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Rising Sun 1993 R, 129 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako, Ray Wise, Stan Shaw, Tia Carrere, Steve Buscemi
This film version of Michael Crichton's novel has much of the suspense of the book. It is a tale of mystery and intrigue set in the financial world of Japan and is well worth your time.
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 RoboCop 1987 R, 103 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Dan O'Herlihy, Miguel Ferrer, Robert DoQui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry, Kevin Page, Paul McCrane, Jesse D. Goins, Del Zamora, Calvin Jung, Lee de Broux
In Detroit in the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is shot and killed by drug dealers. But, luckily for him, a method has been devised to make a cyborg (half-man, half-machine) ready to fight for all that is just and right in Detroit. The operation is performed at OCP–Omni Consumer Products, the corporation that runs the futuristic city–and RoboCop is out on the streets defending justice. His former partner Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) tries unsuccessfully to help RoboCop remember his past as he pursues the criminals who tried to kill him. Followed by two sequels.
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Swamp Thing 1982 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess, Nicholas Worth, Don Knight, Dick Durock, Al Ruban, Ben Bates, Nannette Brown, Reggie Batts, Mimi Craven, Karen Price, Bill Erickson, Dov Gottesfeld
Based on the comic book character, this is the story of Doctor Alec Holland's (Ray Wise) strange odyssey during which he turns himself into the slimy title character. Holland is trying to save the world from hunger by combining plant and animal cells. His lab is being protected by government agent Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau), but criminal mastermind Arcane (Louis Jourdan) breaks into the lab, kills Holland's sister Dr. Linda Holland (Nannette Brown) who works with him, and the formula spills on Holland. During the confusion, Alice escapes with Arcane in pursuit, and she is rescued by a green man who is actually Holland transformed by his formula into the Swamp Thing (Dick Durock).
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The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story 1988 TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Flight
Director: Paul Wendkos
Cast: Lindsay Wagner, Eli Danker, Sandy McPeak, Ray Wise, Leslie Easterbrook, Laurie Walters, Joseph Nasser, Barry Jenner, Jim McMullan, Steven Eckholdt
In 1985, a Flight Attendant was credited for saving nearly all of the passengers' lives during a hijacking. This very good TV film tells the story of that real-life incident.
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 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 R, 135 min.
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Fantasy / Thriller
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan, Dana Ashbrook, David Bowie, Harry Dean Stanton, Kiefer Sutherland, James Marshall, Grace Zabriskie, Pamela Gidley, David Lynch, Peggy Lipton, Moira Kelly, Miguel Ferrer, Heather Graham
This film was followed by the TV series and told of the events that would later haunt the characters in the series. Laura's (Sheryl Lee) last days are spent with her boyfriend James Hurley (James Marshall) and her best friend Donna Hayward (Moira Kelly). At night, however, drug-addicted Laura hangs out with dope dealer Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook). When Laura's father, Leland (Ray Wise), learns of Laura's double life he goes into a fit of rage, which ends in tragedy for Laura and her friends.
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Two Can Play That Game 2001 R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Mark Brown
Cast: Vivica A. Fox, Morris Chestnut, Anthony Anderson, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Gabrielle Union, Tamala Jones, Ray Wise, Bobby Brown, Dondre Whitfield, Mo'Nique, David Krumholtz, Colby Kane, Amy Hunter, Lee Anthony, Ian "Blaze" Kelly
In this battle-of-the-sexes comedy, Shante Smith (Vivica A. Fox) has been giving advice on their romantic lives to her girlfriends Karen (Wendy Raquel Robinson) and Tracey (Tamala Jones), and they have listened to her every word. Now, Shante's boyfriend Keith (Morris Chestnut) is caught cheating on her with her rival Conny (Gabrielle Union), and Shante sets up her "Ten Day Plan" to get Keith back in line.
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Windfall 2001 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gerry Lively
Cast: Casper Van Dien, Gregg Henry, Robert Englund, Libby Hudson, Ray Wise, Cyril O'Reilly, Daniel Roebuck, Jeremy Roberts, Jeff Kober, Florin Tanase, Jeff Celentano
The opening chase scene and the ending hurricane are the highlights of this lame, but watchable, film. Partners-in-crime Ace and Scratch (Casper Van Dien and Robert Englund) are caught after the above-noted chase, thus thwarting their attempt to rob a tropical island casino. But, instead of being sent to jail, the casino owner hires them as casino security agents. Will they be able to stop the next attempt at robbing the casino? And don't forget the hurricane that is approaching.
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| 1. The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)
2. Bob Roberts (1992)
3. Cat People (1982)
4. The Chase (1994)
5. Dead End (2003)
6. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
7. Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
8. The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
9. The Killing Box (1993)
aka: Ghost Brigade
aka: Grey Knight
10. One Missed Call (2008)
11. Peaceful Warrior (2006)
12. Powder (1995)
13. The Rift (1990)
aka: La Grieta
aka: Endless Descent
14. Rising Sun (1993)
15. RoboCop (1987)
16. Swamp Thing (1982)
17. The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (1988)
aka: The Flight
18. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
19. Two Can Play That Game (2001)
20. Windfall (2001)
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