RoboCop 3 (1993)
Jul 1, 2000Cyborg Cop
The third Robocop film killed the series off with a disastrous decision to go for a PG rating and pair Robocop with a cute kid
Daniel Von Bargen
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Mar 18, 2003Occult Detective/War Between Magicians
Clive Braker's third and final outing as a director. Barker is trying to tell an occult detective story but fails to get any of the mood that film noir operates by
Thinner (1996)
Mar 7, 2009Weight Loss Curse/Stephen King Adaptation
Adaptation of one of Stephen King's Richard Bachman novels about an obese lawyer afflicted with a thinning curse. There are some great effects but the film's moral messages come off as wrong
The Postman (1997)
Jan 7, 2011Post-Holocaust
Kevin Costner directs David Brin's post-holocaust tale as an epic Western. Most audiences ridiculed the film's ardent flag-waving but you cannot deny that Costner makes a stirring and undeniably interesting film
The Faculty (1998)
Dec 16, 1999Alien Body Snatchers Take Over a High School
Robert Rodriguez directs from a script by Scream writer Kevin Williamson. This wittily deconstructs the 1950s alien body snatchers film by way of The Breakfast Club
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Aug 17, 2010Undead Super-Soldiers/Action
Sequel to Roland Emmerich's Universal Soldier, this brings back Jean-Claude Van Damme but otherwise substitutes a brain dead plot that has him facing an evil A.I.
The Kid (2000)
Jul 9, 2000Man Meets His Boyhood Self
Likeable and appealing Disney film in which Bruce Willis is an asshole executive who suddenly finds a kid in his apartment who turns out to be his nerdier boyhood self
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Feb 2, 2001Depression-Era Version of The Odyssey
The Coen Brothers hilariously adapt The Odyssey into the Depression Era with George Clooney leading a trio of escaped convicts as he tries to return to his wife
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.