The Green Hornet (1940)
May 16, 2023Serial/Masked Superhero
The first screen appearance of the masked superhero The Green Hornet in a thirteen-chapter serial that was adapted from a popular radio series. Later remade as a tv series and feature film.
Keye Luke
Project X (1968)
Nov 30, 2000Future Mental Probing/Reality Simulations
Gimmick master William Castle makes an SF films about scientists engaged in simulations and mental probing to obtain secrets from a man's mind
The Chairman (1969)
Jun 8, 2001Spy Thriller/Journey to Communist China
Big-budgeted spy thriller with Gregory Peck as a scientist who poses as a defector to Communist China. This never enervates much as a thriller but its recreations of Communist China are amazing
The Cat Creature (1973)
Jul 29, 2014Ancient Egyptian Cat Vengeance Curse
TV movie about an Ancient Egyptian cat vengeance curse. The cast was culled from 1940s genre films and the material feels just as old despite a script from Psycho author Robert Bloch
Gremlins (1984)
Feb 16, 2000Malicious Creatures
The film about malicious creatures that was the runaway box-office hit of 1984. Director Joe Dante runs amok like a schoolboy with a chemistry kit and gleefully trashes the wholesome innocence of producer Steven Spielberg's E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
Dead Heat (1988)
Nov 5, 1999Cop and his Zombie Partner
Made not along after the success of Lethal Weapon, this offers a wacky spin on the buddy cop formula having a cop paired with a zombie. The mildly amusing notion is killed by the excruciating comedy relief of Joe Piscopo
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Dec 6, 2002Malicious Creatures
A far less successful sequel to the mega-hit of Gremlins where director Joe Dante brings the gremlins to Manhattan and allows the silliness to go completely over-the-top and into orbit, even breaking the fourth wall
Alice (1990)
Sep 12, 1999Modernised Alice in Wonderland
One of Woody Allen's less interesting films, a modernised version of Alice in Wonderland with Mia Farrow as a bored housewife who passes through various surreal experiences