Making Mr Right (1987)
May 7, 1999Android Romance Comedy
A Susan Seidelman romantic comedy where Ann Magnuson finds the answers to her love life with android John Malkovich after being assigned to teach him human behaviour
Glenne Headly
Paperhouse (1989)
Aug 22, 2009Girl Builds a House in Dreams
One of the most sophisticated and intelligent of the 80s copies of A Nightmare on Elm Street with a rich central idea about a girl who can enter the world of her own drawings
Dick Tracy (1990)
Aug 13, 2001Comic-Book Detective
The Warren Beatty directed and starring adaptation of the popular newspaper comic-strip detective proved a flop. Beatty creates a highly stylised world and peoples it with an all-star cast but fails to invest the world with any depth
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Apr 3, 2001Talking Animals
For this sequel to the hit talking pig film, producer George Miller of Mad Max films fame steps into the director's chair. However, the cuteness of the original promptly becomes buried under careening slapstick
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Sep 11, 1999Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation
Disappointing adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel from Adam Rudolph that substitutes Vonnegut's satire for clumsy, ham-fisted farce that never gives us any clear idea what it is satirising
The Circle (2017)
Jul 16, 2017Online Mass Surveillance Thriller
Hollywood tries to make a big message film about online mass surveillance but renders anodyne straw arguments. Meanwhile, back in the real world you cannot help but think things the film depicts things might happen very different