Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972)
Feb 9, 1999Invisible Teen/Disney Comedy
The second of Disney's Dexter Reilly films with Kurt Russell as a teen genius who invents an invisibility formula
Ed Begley Jr
Cat People (1982)
Jun 16, 2014Human-Feline Transformation
The remake of Cat People. In the hands of Paul Schrader, all the ambiguity is made overt and the film becomes one of Schrader's allegories for tormented sexuality. On its own terms, this is an often smoulderingly sensual work
Eating Raoul (1982)
Apr 19, 2007Killing Kinksters Black Comedy
Paul Bartel's black comedy where he and Mary Woronov play a snobby couple who pose as kinksters to lure swingers and then kill them off. all to fund setting up an exclusive restaurant
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
Sep 11, 2003Famous Monster Bash/Comedy
Painfully unfunny comedy from Mel Brooks writer Rudy De Luca with journalists Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr encountering monsters while on assignment in Transylvania
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Jun 1, 1999Anthology of Comedy Skits & Genre Parodies
An anthology of comedy skits from various directors including Joe Dante and John Landis. The result is fairly scattershot with occasional laughs falling between those that fail to land
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
Oct 17, 1999Sexual Rondeau Comedy/Ghost
Director Paul Bartel and a reasonable name cast make a comedy about the sex lives of the Beverly Hills elites
Meet the Applegates (1991)
Jul 3, 2000Family of Insects/Black Comedy
A satiric comedy about a family of insects who set up house in suburbia posing as humans. This takes to its premise with a darkly farcical tone that is quite hilarious
Sensation (1994)
Apr 19, 1999Psychometry/Erotic Thriller
Kari Wuhrer stars in a tawdry erotic thriller as an art student who gains clairvoyant abilities and gets caught up in solving a murder
The Pagemaster (1994)
Aug 31, 2004Adventures in the Land of Fiction
Amiable if lightweight film where a live-action Macaulay Culkin gets animated and has a series of adventures in a Land of Fiction where he must pass through various classic stories
Project: ALF (1996)
Dec 14, 2008Annoying Alien Vistor Comedy
A tv movie revival of the hit 1980s tv sitcom ALF. Looking back it's hard to wonder what ever seemed funny about the show at the time
Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Nov 21, 2000Kinky Perverse Family
The big screen Addams Family films ended with the death of Raul Julia. Subsequently the rights were sold to Saban Entertainment who made this cheap, terrible direct-to-video film with a new cast
Time Toys (2016)
Oct 26, 2017Super-Powered Toys from the Future
Children's film with the promising idea of kids finding a bunch of toys from the future that grant them amazing abilities unaware they have world-destroying potential.; The idea is alas watered down to the blandness of family formula and the limited conceptual horizons of a low budget
Ghostbusters (2016)
Jul 23, 2016Team of Spook Chasers Comedy
There was a lot of hate centred on this for recasting what is considered a classic film with an all-girl cast. It emerges mostly likeably, no better, no worse on the whole, where the new ensemble make a solid showing
Amelia 2.0 (2017)
Jul 10, 2019Mind Upload Into an Android Body
The theme of Mind Upload is waiting for the one film to come along and define its theme. This, in which a comatose wife's body is loaded into an android body, is not that film and only reaches for cliches
Strange Darling (2023)
Mar 14, 2025Psycho Film
An incredibly refreshing and original psycho film, made with a furious energy. Every bit of the way it is constantly messing with us and turning everything we think is going on on its head