MOVING VIOLATIONS

The “institutional comedy” model, established in 1984 by POLICE ACADEMY, was given a fair-to-middling workout in this science fiction-tinged comedy

SERIE NOIRE

A 1979 French language take on Jim Thompson’s A HELL OF A WOMAN, directed by the talented Alain Corneau

ATTACK THE BLOCK

The primary intent of this no-budgeter was evidently to jumpstart a Hollywood career for its debuting writer-director, yet the film can be enjoyed by viewers who aren’t studio executives or talent agents

ROLLERBALL (2002)

One of the most calamitous flops of the 2000s was ROLLERBALL (2002), which lost MGM/UA an enormous amount of money and destroyed the careers of its director and its leading man