Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Mar 21, 2001Horror Anthology
Film spinoff from the Tales from the Darkside tv series, this is an anthology of three horror tales, the result is a surprisingly slick and well made film
Christian Slater
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
Apr 4, 2010Environmentally Aware Animation
Animated film where fairies face the threat to their forest posed by a logging operation. Preachy message-making that is all but a recruitment film for Greenpeace and the Sierra Club
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Jun 19, 2001Vampires/Anne Rice Adaptation
Most of the attention this drew at the time was over the controversy of casting Tom Cruise; otherwise this is an excellent adaptation of the Anne Rice novel by Neil Jordan
Broken Arrow (1995)
Aug 25, 2002Action/Nuclear Hijacking
John Woo's second Hollywood film, an action film about nuclear hijacking. Woo's unique stylistics promptly get buried under the machinery of big-budget action filmmaking
Mindhunters (2004)
Feb 26, 2007Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller from the perpetually terrible Renny Harlin. A variant on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, it promptly collapses into ludicrous plotting and an even more ridiculous string of deaths
Alone in the Dark (2005)
Jul 26, 2007Videogame Adaptation/Monsters
Uwe Boll gained a reputation as the world's worst director on the basis of his videogame adaptations. Prize exhibit was Alone in the Dark, which abandons the game and is a series of action scenes without explanatory rationale
Hollow Man II (2006)
Jul 11, 2007Invisible Maniac
Sequel to the invisible man film Hollow Man. This one has been so cheaply made that it even recycles its effects from the first film
Stranded (2013)
Mar 17, 2014Alien Impregnation
Roger Christian was art director on Alien but will always be remembered as director of the notorious Battlefield Earth. Here he is stuck making a cheap, tatty and frequently incomprehensible copy of Alien about alien impregnation
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Feb 22, 2015Time Travel Comedy
Why we needed a sequel to Hot Tub Time Machine is a big question. Essentially, Back to the Future Part II meets The Hangover, all this does is wind the original's amiable coarseness up by a factor of ten
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Apr 8, 2018Animation/Team-Up of DC Comics Super-Villains
A DC Universe Original Animated Movie given over to Suicide Squad. Clearly inspired by the live-action film, this goes overboard on the super-villains present, having three entire teams running around to general confusion, while striking a very odd tone in its pitch for an R-rating
We Can Be Heroes (2020)
Jan 10, 2021Kid Superheroes
Robert Rodriguez appears to have gotten the oversized non-event that was Alita: Battle Angel out of his system by making another of his seat of the pants home movies – this is less Spy Kids than Superhero Kids – and brings back one element Alita forgot, a sense of fun
Chupa (2023)
Sep 17, 2023Cute Baby Chupacabra
A directorial outing from Alfonso Cuaron’s son Jonas. This is essentially E.T. but with children befriended a cute baby chupacabra instead of a stranded alien