The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997)
Jun 28, 2002Animation/Talking Appliances
The first of two Brave Little Toaster sequels, this plays more along the lines of a regular animated film formula but has its charms
Jay Mohr
Small Soldiers (1998)
Nov 5, 1999War Between Toys
Joe Dante had great success in the 1980s but his star started to pale into the 90s. Here he has resorted to a rehash of his biggest hit Gremlins, seemingly conceptually slung together with Toy Storyconcerning an army of malevolent toy soldiers come to life
Cherry Falls (2000)
Jul 16, 2009Slasher Film
Witty and rather funny slasher film in which the killer targets virgins in a community. The genre's usual tropes about the chaste girl surviving are turned on their head in rather hilarious ways
Black River (2001)
Jun 19, 2010Perfect Town Where Nobody Can Ever Leave
Modest and quite effective Dean R. Koontz adaptation in which Jay Mohr is trapped in a small town run by an A.I. that does everything it can to prevent him from leaving
S1m0ne (2002)
Nov 15, 2003Virtual Hollywood Actress
Andrew Niccol makes a comedy in which down-on-his-luck film director Al Pacino obtains a computer program for simulating a performance and creates a virtual actress, hoodwinking the public into believing she is a real person.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
Apr 1, 2003Lunar Comedy-Thriller
Huge flop comedy for Eddie Murphy in which he plays a nightclub owner on The Moon. There is an almost good SF film hiding inside and depiction of a surprisingly detailed Lunar culture but the unnfunny comedy elements kill it
Hereafter (2010)
Oct 20, 2010Perspectives on the Afterlife
Clint Eastwood tackles the afterlife in a drama following multiple storylines. A film made with earnest serious ambition but one where Eastwood finds surprisingly little to say about the issue