The Kiss (1988)
Apr 6, 2004Sinister Aunt
Hilariously nonsensical horror film with Joanna Pacula as a sinister aunt. The plot throws in laughable novelty effects, including a killer cat, absurdly overwrought symbolism and some voodoo rationale
Mimi Kuzyk
The Breakthrough (1994)
Jun 20, 2000Scientifically Exploring the Afterlife
A film about the scientific efforts to explore the afterlife, this suffers from too many good ideas and not enough of the effects needed to convey its journey
Bone Daddy (1998)
Jan 2, 2001Serial Killer Thriller
One of the serial killer thrillers made following The Silence of the Lambs. Rutger Hauer is a medical examiner who publishes a book about an unsolved serial killer case only to bring the killer out of retirement
Thrill Seekers (1999)
May 31, 2010Time Travel
A throwaway direct-to-dvd release about time travellers come back to view famous disasters that rises above low expectations to develop an occasionally interesting plot
The Final Cut (2004)
Sep 3, 2005The Editing of Memory
Fine and underrated Sf film set in a future where memory recording device are commonplace with Robin Williams as a man whose job is to edit these for funeral services
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Jun 1, 2004New Ice Age/Environmental Disaster Movie
In another of his big budget disaster spectacles, Roland Emmerich embraces environmental concerns about Global Warming. Here he imagines the onset of a new Ice Age worldwide
Pegasus vs. Chimera (2012)
Jun 14, 2017Fantasy Adventure
One of the numerous ‘vs' films that came out after Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, this is actually a B-budget fantasy adventure made for cable. This is not particularly bad, just routine and uninspired on all counts where the budget cramps any of its imaginative horizons
Astronaut (2019)
Aug 9, 2019Senior Pursues a Dream to Go Into Space
Space movies were big following successes like Gravity and The Martian. At complete contrast, this is a genteel laidback film with Richard Dreyfuss as a senior obsessed with boarding a spaceflight