Michael Ironside
Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
Scanners (1981)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan…
- A 'scanner' describes a person able to read minds, but with a potential to cause nasty headaches. An intense cautionary tale about the dangers of…
V (TV Series) (1983)
- Dir. Kenneth Johnson
Feat. Robert Englund, Michael Ironside
- Compelling sci–fi saga detailing the mass invasion of alien spacecraft whose inhabitants dubiously claim to have come in peace.
Top Gun (1986)
- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer…
- Star–making film for Cruise, who goes through all the right motions to get millions of bums on seats. The routine plot is overcome by the…
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso…
- Former childhood friends Boothe and Nolte find themselves on opposite sides of the law, and in love with the same woman in this gritty modern…
Total Recall (1990)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox…
- From the heyday of the Schwarzenegger craze, this eccentric sci–fi thriller boasts a massive f/x budget that proves (literally) eye popping,…
Highlander 2 (1991)
- Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Michael Ironside…
- Sequel to the video blockbuster of the 80's sees the back–story of the original film ditched and Scottish immortal MacLeod now in fact an alien…
Major Payne (1995)
- Dir. Nick Castle
Feat. Damon Wayans, Michael Ironside, Karyn Parsons
- Comedy following a major in the U.S. Marine Corps who, after receiving an unwanted honourable discharge, is recruited to train a bunch of delinquent…
Starship Troopers (1997)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards…
- ROBOCOP man Verhoeven's 'ironic' take on Robert Heinlein's 1959 novel about a totalitarian future society whose perfectly toned young 'citizens' wage…
Chicago Cab (Hellcab) (1998)
- Dir. Mary Cybulski, John Tintori
Feat. John Cusack, Gillian Anderson, Julianne Moore…
- Bleak black comedy based around a day in the life of a Chicago cab–driver (Dillon) in the lead up to Christmas, who becomes confessor to his…
Nuremberg (2000)
- Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox…
- This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.