Village of the Giants (1965)
Sep 2, 2003Giant Teenagers Amok
Bert I. Gordon, who spent most of his career making giant animal and people films, makes a film about giant rock'n'rolling teenagers. Supposedly adapted from a novel by H.G. Wells
Beau Bridges
Child’s Play (1972)
Aug 25, 2001Catholic Boys' Boarding School Sadism
Not to be confused with the Chucky films, this is a little-seen film about a series of sadistic games played by pupils that targets other pupils in a Catholic boys' boarding school
Hammersmith is Out (1972)
Oct 14, 2025Satire/Devil Figure
One of the few flops that Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor made, a broad satire where Burton is a Devil figure who escape from an asylum, leaving a trail of bodiesas he makes his way up to control the presidency
Alice in Wonderland (1985)
May 3, 2023Alice in Wonderland TV Adaptation
From Irwin Allen, the creator of Lost in Space etc, a tv version of Alice in Wonderland, conceived as an all-star musical that comes out as ponderous and leaden in Allen's hands
RocketMan (1997)
Dec 28, 2004Idiot Joins a NASA Mars Mission
Unfunny comedy in which Harland Williams plays a bumbling idiot who is recruited to take part in a NASA Mars landing mission. Slapstick inanity results.
10.5 (2004)
Mar 1, 2016Disaster Mini-Series/California Super-Quake
Disaster mini-series based around the great belief that a super-earthquake will come and pitch most of California into the ocean. Despite devoting some four hour of screen time to it, the drama feels painfully padded at times, while the special effects sequences come out as not very special
Charlotte’s Web (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Talking Barnyard Animals
Charlotte's Web gets the Babe treatment and is turned into a live-action film with CGI barnyard animals and name actors. Here the enormous charms of the original are replaced by cute and mawkish cues
Max Payne (2008)
Oct 19, 2008Videogame Adaptation/Vigilante Cop
Based on the popular videogame, this is fairly much Death Wish by way of Jacob's Ladder and proves an underwhelming delivery of its promise