Escape from Mars (1999)
Dec 31, 2008Expedition to Mars
One of several Mars movies that came out around 1999-2000, this concerns the first manned expedition and their efforts to survive after being stranded on the Martian surface
David Kaye
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. This suffers the glassy plasticity of the early Mainframe films
Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
Feb 27, 2014Animation/Barbie Swashbuckler
Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure story is turned into an animated vehicle for Barbie with genders reversed and an absurdly upbeat Girls Can Do Anything vibe. Being a kid's film, the girl Musketeers are no longer allowed to wield swords
Ratchet & Clank (2016)
Jul 10, 2017Animation/Videogame Adaptation
Animated film based on the popular computer game. On screen, this emerges as essentially an instantly forgettable variant on one of the Star Wars prequels retooled for the Under Tens with the emphasis all on frenetic slapstick and visual eye candy
Cadence (2016)
Oct 14, 2016Nightmare Visions/Parallel Reality
For a long time, this effort about a girl experiencing nightmare visions on her family farm doesn't seem to be doing anything - then gets interesting as it switches to a parallel reality where what happens is mirrored slightly different
Eternals (2021)
Jan 22, 2022Marvel Comics Superhero Team
A Marvel Comics offering that is an adaptation of a team created by the greatest comic-book writer/artist of all time. On screen however, this emerges with strangely flat and moribund results
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three (2024)
Jul 26, 2024Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
The third and final part of the adaptation of DC Comics’ classic title Crisis on Infinite Earths featuring an epic battle to prevent the destruction of the multiverse
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One (2024)
Feb 4, 2024Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
An animated film adaptation of Crisis on Infinite Earths, one of the classic DC Comics titles of all time. With superhero films now obsessed with multiverses, this seems the perfect time to bring it to the screen