Good Against Evil (1977)
Jan 23, 2025Deviltry and Exorcism
From the great and underrated Paul Wendkos, a 1970s tv movie that taps the deviltry movie fads of the day and becomes a blatant copy of The Exorcist, albeit cleaned up for tv sensibilities
Kim Cattrall
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
May 7, 2003Chinese Supernatural/Martial Arts Fantasy
John Carpenter film that was marketed as a Raiders of the Lost Ark copy but is more Carpenter trying to emulate Hong Kong’s Wu Xia cinema, which was largely unknown in the West at the time. All with highly enjoyable conic results.
Mannequin (1987)
May 23, 2003Romance with a Mannequin Come to Life
It is hard to believe this ever received a greenlight, a film in which Andrew McCarthy falls for a storefront mannequin (Kim Cattrall) who comes to life. The comedy has an excruciating inanity
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Jul 20, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
The last of the classic Star Trek films. Nicholas Meyer, who made the last good Trek film The Wrath of Khan, returns to give the characters a moving send off, while the plot that reenacts the fall of the Berlin Wall with the Klingons gives the films a political immediacy that was missing since the tv series
Split Second (1992)
Jun 2, 2005Satanic Alien Serial Killer
A mishmash of Alien copy and supernatural serial killer film set in a drowned future London with a script that makes no real sense. The film's buddy cop relationship starring Rutger Hauer does have its amusements.
Unforgettable (1996)
Apr 19, 2004Transplanted Memories Thriller
Thriller where Ray Liotta undergoes an experimental process to receive an injection of memories from his dead wife and from these sets out to try and solve her murder
Modern Vampires (1998)
Apr 7, 2001Vampires
Richard Elfman film about chic vampires who have become an elite living in Hollywood. Despite promise and some interesting ideas, this is ruined by an atrociously overacting cast
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
15 Minutes (2001)
Mar 9, 2001Media-Obsessed Psychos
Thriller about two killers who become inspired by tabloid tv and decide to sell tapes of their crimes to tv. This becomes a heavy-handed, tub-beating rant of disgust against modern media
Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
Dec 8, 2021Pact with The Devil
Alec Baldwin’s financially troubled modernised remake of The Devil and Daniel Webster comes to the screen as a compromised vision
The Tiger’s Tail (2006)
May 10, 2009Doppelganger Film
John Boorman makes a film where Brendan Gleeson has his life taken over by a doppelganger