Guilty as Charged (1991)

Guilty as Charged (1991)
Rating: ★★
Apr 19, 2009Vigilante Executioner Black Comedy
Black comedy in which Rod Steiger sets up a private prison to execute the guilty that get away. Halfway between a vigilante film and a gonzo comedy, this never settles on what it wants to be and only comes out a frenetic farce

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Jun 14, 1999Spy Movie Spoof
The second of the Austin Powers films is less sharp in its parody of the James Bond film and more focused on a series of broad scatological gags. Mike Myers owns the show in a trio of entertainingly gregarious performances

From Hell (2001)

From Hell (2001)
Rating: ★★
Oct 21, 2001Jack the Ripper
Disappointing attempt, based on a Alan Moore graphic novel, to depict the Jack the Ripper killings. The film feels over-produced and slides off the cliff by throwing its weight behind one of the more ludicrous and implausible Ripper theories

Petals on the Wind (2014)

Petals on the Wind (2014)
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Feb 12, 2016Flowers in the Attic Sequel
Sequel to the Lifetime channel adaptation of Virginia C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic. Andrews' prolific output of Gothic melodramas are really the horror equivalent of daytime soap operas. Though marginally better, this drowns in the same stultifying blandness as its predecessor

Norm of the North (2016)

Norm of the North (2016)
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May 20, 2016Animation/Talking Polar Bear
As animated films go, there are few that feel like a constructor set of pieces copied from every other film than this. Audiences found the adventures of a twerking polar bear lacking too and it made a record for the lowest weekend gross for an animated film ever

The Stand (2020-2021)

The Stand (2020-2021)
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Mar 5, 2021Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation
The Stand is in my opinion Stephen King’s greatest book. The question is whether this new mini-series version will improve on the laughably failed 1994 version