Austin O'Brien Archives

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Rating: ★★

Dec 3, 2000Virtual Reality/Enhanced Intelligence

This has nothing to do with the Stephen King story about a Pan-worshipping lawnmowing service and is a film about Virtual Reality. Harnessing some top-drawer CGI effects of the day, this was influential on subsequent VR films

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 December 20003 July 2026 by Roog

Prehysteria! (1993)

Rating: ★

Feb 27, 2003Baby Dinosaurs

In the aftermath of the success of Jurassic Park, Albert and Charles Band quickly responded with this children's dinosaur film that contains some of the most pitiful effects in any film of this era

Director: Albert Band, Charles Band

Actors: Brett Cullen, Austin O'Brien, Samantha Mills, Stephen Lee, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 February 20035 July 2026 by Roog

Last Action Hero (1993)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 6, 2002Adventures Inside the Movie Screen/Action Movie Parody

A big flop but highly underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger film, a sophisticated meta-fiction that views the cinema screen as another dimension and wittily deflates action cliches

Director: John McTiernan

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charles Dance, Austin O'Brien, Robert Prosky, …

Category: Fantasy

6 January 200220 June 2026 by Roog

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

Rating: ½

May 17, 1999Messianic Cyberspace Madman

The Lawnmower Man was far from a classic but this sequel has an absurdity that pushes it into extremely bad movie stakes with Matt Frewer as a messiah trying to move everybody into cyberspace

Director: Farhad Mann

Actors: Matt Frewer, Patrick Bergin, Ely Pouget, Kevin Conway, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 May 199921 June 2026 by Roog