Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975)

 Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Janet Ward, John Crawford. Screenplay: Alan Sharp. Cinematography: Bruce Surtees. Production design: George Jenkins. Film editing: Dede Allen. Music: Michael Small. 

In the twisty, satisfying noir Night Moves Gene Hackman shows once again what a terrific actor he was, even though he seems to me a little miscast as a retired professional football player. He brings it off anyway, even managing to be sexy despite a pornstache and one of those '70s hairstyles that looked like a toupee even when they weren't. 

The Big Sleep (Michael Winner, 1978)

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Edward Fox, John Mills, James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Richard Todd. Screenplay: Michael Winner, based on a novel by Raymond Chandler. Cinematography: Robert Paynter. Production design: Harry Pottle. Film editing: Frederick Wilson. Music: Jerry Fielding. 

Just don't. At least not unless you've seen Howard Hawks's 1946 version of Raymond Chandler's novel, which is set, as it should be, in Los Angeles. The shift of the action to London is disastrous, necessitating some lame exposition about why Philip Marlowe and the Sternwood clan are in England. Chandler's plot remains as enigmatic as ever, but in the hands of Hawks and screenwriters Jules Furthman, Leigh Brackett, and William Faulkner, we didn't much care whodunit and why. Michael Winner's screenplay just leaves us with a muddle that has no redeeming flavor and texture. Seldom has a cast of superbly accomplished actors been so sadly wasted as they are here under Winner's direction. 

The Return of Godzilla (Koji Hashimoto, 1984)

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi, Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Shin Takuma, Yosuke Natsuki, Taketoshi Naito, Eitaro Ozawa, Nobuo Kaneko, Takeshi Kato, Mizuno Suzuki. Screenplay: Hideichi Nagahara, Tomoyuki Tanaka. Cinematography: Kazutami Hara. Production design: Akira Sakuragi, Mutsumi Toyoshima. Film editing: Yoshitami Kuroiwa. Music: Reijiro Koroku. 
 

The Deep End (Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2001)

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Peter Donat, Josh Lucas, Raymond J. Barry, Tamara Hope, Jordan Dorrance. Screenplay: Scott McGehee, David Siegel. Cinematography: Giles Nuttgens. Production design: Kelly McGehee, Christopher Tandon. Film editing: Lauren Zuckerman. Music: Peter Nashel. 

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (Kazuki Omori, 1991)

Cast: Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tokuma Nishioka, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Chuck Wilson, Richard Berger, Robert Scott Field. Screenplay: Kazuki Omori. Cinematography: Yoshinori Sekiguchi. Designer: Shinji Nishikawa. Film editing: Michiko Ikeda. Music: Akira Ifukube. 
 

Good Neighbor Sam (David Swift, 1964)

 

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine, Mike Connors, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Andrews, Louis Nye, Robert Q. Lewis, Charles Lane, Linda Watkins, Joyce Jameson. Screenplay: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, David Swift, based on a novel by Jack Finney. Cinematography: Burnett Guffey. Production design: Dale Hennesy. Film editing: Charles Nelson. Music: Frank De Vol. 

Love's Labour's Lost (Kenneth Branagh, 2000)

 Cast: Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McElhone, Kenneth Branagh, Carmen Ejogo, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester, Emily Mortimer, Richard Briers, Geraldine McEwan, Stefania Rocco, Jimmy Yuill, Nathan Lane, Timothy Spall. Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh, based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Alex Thomson. Production design: Tim Harvey. Film editing: Dan Farrell, Neil Farrell. Music: Patrick Doyle.  

So Fine (Andrew Bergman, 1981)

Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel, Fred Gwynne, Mike Kellin, David Rounds, Joel Stedman, Angela Pietropinto, Michael Lombard, Jessica James. Screenplay: Andrew Bergman. Cinematography: James A. Contner. Production design: Santo Loquasto. Film editing: Alan Heim. Music: Ennio Morricone, 

Godzilla vs. Mothra (Takao Okawara, 1992)

Cast: Tetsuya Bessho, Satomi Kobayashi, Takehiro Murata, Keiko Imamura, Sayaka Osawa, Saburo Shinoda, Akiji Kobayashi, Megumi Odaka, Akira Takarada. Screenplay: Wataro Mimura, Akira Murao, Yukiko Takayama, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Minoru Yoshida, Kazuki Omori. Cinematography: Masahiro Kishimoto. Art direction: Takashi Sakai. Music: Akira Ifukube.