The Manhattan Project (1986)
May 12, 2004Teenager Builds Atomic Bomb
Teen thriller where Christopher Collett decides to build an atomic bomb for the school science prize
John Mahoney
Barton Fink (1991)
Apr 26, 2000Writer's Block/Paranoia Black Comedy
Hollywood noir from the Coen Brothers, this takes us inside the crumbling mental state of a screenwriter in the 1930s. Like a David Lynch remake of Day of the Locust, this comes rich in the Coens' black uncomfortable humour
Striking Distance (1993)
Aug 14, 2000Action/Psycho-Thriller
Action thriller with Bruce Willis as a river patrol detective hunting a serial killer
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Sep 10, 2001Black Comedy/Divine Intervention
One of the Coen Brothers’ strangest films – imagine a homage to a 1940s Howard Hawks film conducted on giant oversized sets like something out of Brazil with a blacker-than-black sense of humour and angels in the mix
The Iron Giant (1999)
Aug 7, 1999Animation/Friendly Giant Robot
The first animated film from Brad Bird is a sweet and lovely piece about the friendship between a young boy and a giant robot. Underrated at the time, this has subsequently become regarded as a classic
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Jun 15, 2001Disney Animation/The Quest for Atlantis
One of the less successful films of the Disney renaissance of the 90s/00s. Disney has never done well with animated SF. That aside, this a very nicely animated Steampunk adventure
Atlantis: Milo’s Return (2003)
Jun 20, 2010Disney Animation Sequel
Another shabby Disney video-released sequel, in this case to Atlantis the Lost Empire. The result looks like three episodes of an unsold tv series slapped together to sell as a film
The Emperor’s New Groove 2: Kronk’s New Groove (2005)
Nov 3, 2007Disney Animation
Another of the cheap made-for-video Disney animated sequels that were made during the 1990s/2000s, they tries to get by on association with its predecessor's name