Biography: Michael Ironside |
Canadian actor Michael Ironside has specialized in tough, steel-fisted villainous film roles. Ironside played the ruthless brain-splitting cult leader in Scanners (1981), the unethical cop in Cross Country (1983), and the megalomaniacal cyborg in
Cast: Mimi Rogers
Tags: Action Disaster Film Action Thriller
Length: 92min
Her parents having perished in a twister when she was just a young girl, Dr. April Saunders (Mimi Rogers) dedicates her life to developing more effective methods of tracking potentially dangerous storm systems. Dr. Saunders is traveling to Seattle...
Tags: Creature Film Horror
Length: 84min
A mad scientist inadvertently unleashes the apocalypse while attempting to create an addictive additive for a greedy manufacturer. Instead of creating an army of compulsive consumers, it turns regular people into frenzied mutants. When the infection...
Cast: Cary Elwes Timothy Hutton
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 90min
Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this hriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester,...
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)
Cast: Alexandra Paul
Tags: Science Fiction Sci-Fi Disaster Film
Length: 92min
Michael Ironside, Costas Mandylor, and Alexandra Paul attempt to avert disaster when a volatile volcano threatens to turn New York City to ashes in director Robert Lee's made for television disaster film. A volcano has been discovered beneath the Big...
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 117min
A beleaguered chef from Montreal discovers the diabolical Zen of cooking while traveling in Thailand and romancing a mysterious beauty. Later, after narrowly escaping death and returning to his hometown, the chef falls deeply in love with a woman who...
Cast: Ally Sheedy Sidney J. Furie
Tags: War Drama Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 89min
A Vietnam veteran-turned-holy man returns to Saigon, only to be confronted by a former war buddy who forces him to own up to his blood-soaked past in this drama from director Sidney J. Furie. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Jeremy Northam Jason Biggs Natascha McElhone
Tags: Comedy Black Comedy
Length: 94min
This loose update of John Griesemer's biting and satirical 2001 anti-war novel -No One Thinks of Greenland features American Pie starrer Jason Biggs as Corporal Rudy Spruance, a young man enlisted in the U.S. military in the late 1970s, at the height...
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh Christian Bale
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 98min
Brad Anderson directs the psychological thriller The Machinist, a production of Spain's Filmax company. Christian Bale plays Trevor Reznik, a factory lathe operator who has developed a serious case of insomnia. Lack of sleep has already started to...
Justice League: Twilight, Part 2 (2003)
Cast: Ron Perlman
Tags: Superhero Film Action
Length: 30min
In the conclusion of Justice League's second-season opener, the Justice League has been imprisoned on a giant artificial moon, built in the shape of Superman's old Krypton foe Brainiac. It turns out that the Leaguers are mere pawns in a pact between...
Cast: Michael Ironside
Tags: Disaster Film Action
Length: 93min
Phillip Roth's action/disaster film Maximum Velocity concerns the efforts of a group of military men and scientists to thwart an oncoming storm that would devastate the planet. He group must utilize a still unproven new weapon to dissipate the storm...
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