The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Sep 11, 2003Disembodied Brain Movie Spoof
Extremely funny Steve Martin comedy where he plays a neurosurgeon who falls in love with a brain in a jar
Kathleen Turner
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Feb 4, 2005Psycho-Sexual Thriller
Team-up between Ken Russell and Anthony Perkins with both in full-on lunacy mode. Kathleen Turner gives her best performance ever as a fashion designer moonlighting as a hooker who is stalked by Perkins as a psycho priest
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Oct 19, 2002Time Travel/Housewife Revisists Her Youth
This is Francis Ford Coppola's version of Back to the Future wherein housewife Kathleen Turner wakes up back as her high school self and gets the opportunity to remake her life's choices
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
May 9, 2001Toon Detective Story
Groundbreaking film that hilariously imagines an alternate world where cartoon characters live alongside humans. The energy and creativity of the film is superlative
Serial Mom (1994)
Nov 9, 2014Murderous Housewife Black Comedy
One of John Waters' more mainstream films with Kathleen Turner as a gleefully murderous housewife
A Simple Wish (1997)
Feb 25, 2001Inept Fairy Godmother
Ghastly children's film with Martin Short as an inept fairy godmother. Inanity ensues where there seems no ceiling on how over-the-top performances are allowed to go
Baby Geniuses (1999)
Apr 1, 1999Intelligent Baby Conspiracy
Film set around the premise that babies are secretly geniuses and talk in their own language. This makes a beeline for pee and poop jokes and seems to think we should applaud it for the cutsieness of seeing babies doing adult things
Monster House (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Animation/Living House Amok
Delightful motion capture animated film about children discovering a neighbourhood house that is alive. Written with refreshingly well-rounded characters and directed with a great sense of comic grotesque
Animal Farm (2025)
Jun 6, 2026Animation/Talking Animal Social Satire
Actor Andy Serkis directs an adaptation of George Orwell’s satiric talking animals fable. However, the decision to update the story comes unstuck in spectacularly awful ways