The Ice Pirates (1984)
Apr 1, 2003Space Opera
Space opera made in the aftermath of Star Wars, a magpie collage of influences not always the most coherently presented and given a comic emphasis
Anjelica Huston
The Witches (1990)
Dec 16, 2003Evil Witches/Roald Dahl Adaptation
Nicolas Roeg and Jim Henson collaborate on an adaptation of a Roald Dahl book. Roeg leaves the grotesquerie and gleeful malice intact making this one of the best Dahl adaptations
The Addams Family (1991)
Apr 1, 1999Kinky Perverse Family
The big screen version of the 1960s tv series and Charles Addams' cartoons is a highly enjoyable Hollywood Halloween Party, a chance for name actors to put on costume and ape life with a ghoulish, mildly perverse, moderately subversive spin
Addams Family Values (1993)
Aug 8, 1999Kinky Perverse Family
Sequel to the live-action Addams Family film that reunites the same cast who fine-tune their roles, while the black comedy has an even more barbed bite second time around
EverAfter (1998)
Jul 14, 1999Deconstructed Cinderella
Witty and very charming retelling of Cinderella that strips out all of the fantasy elements and substitutes a pseudo-historical realism. The cast positively shine.
The Mists of Avalon (2001)
Apr 2, 2006Revisionist Arthurian Legends
TV mini-series based on Marion Zimmer Bradley's book that offers a revisionist take on the Arthurian legends, telling the story through the eyes of the women of the saga
Barbie as Rapunzel (2002)
May 24, 2009Animation/Barbie Enacts Fairytale
The second of the animated Barbie films, this casts her as the title character in the popular Brothers Grimm fairytale, which has been considerably embellished. Likeable but suffers the glassy plasticity of the early Mainframe films
Blood Work (2002)
Jan 30, 2005Aging Detective Pursues Serial Killer
This could be essentially be called Dirty Harry's retirement. Clint Eastwood directs/stars as an aging detective brought back into the game to track down a serial killer from his past.
Martian Child (2007)
Oct 9, 2008Adopting a Possibly Alien Child
Adapted from a David Gerrold book, this is essentially the Adam Sandler adopts a kid film Big Daddy by way of K-PAX
TinkerBell (2008)
Aug 13, 2009Disney Animation/Fairy's Adventures
The first in a series of Disney video-released films based around the Peter Pan fairy who is now reconceived as a contemporary Can Do girl
When in Rome (2010)
Apr 17, 2014Romantic Comedy/Fountain of Love
Agonisingly awful romantic comedy about a Fountain of Love. The plot is utterly vapid, its resolution never in the slightest doubt, while director Mark Steven (Daredevil, Ghost Rider) Johnson sets the entire film up around a series of painfully unfunny slapstick routines