Kurt Fuller Archives

Miracle Mile (1988)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 8, 2019Impending Nuclear Strike on L.A. Comedy

Offbeat comedy where Anthony Edwards picks up a phone call that warns a nuclear strike is about to hit in 50 minutes during which he tries to find his love as L.A. descends into chaos

Director: Steve De Jarnatt

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Mykelti Williamson, Robert DoQui, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 January 20194 September 2026 by Roog

Ghostbusters II (1989)

Rating: ★★

Feb 1, 2002Team of Spook Chasers Comedy

A weak follow-up to the hit original that essentially killed off any further Ghostbusters sequels. Most of the the cast are back but the plot and proceedings feel like a walk-through for all involved.

Director: Ivan Reitman

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, …

Category: Fantasy

1 February 200222 February 2026 by Roog

Eve of Destruction (1991)

Rating: ★

Nov 17, 1999Amok Android

Blatant copy of The Terminator lacking in basic plausibility featuring Renee Soutendijk as an android with an atomic bomb in her chest that goes rogue while on downtown military maneuvers

Director: Duncan Gibbins

Actors: Gregory Hines, Renee Soutendijk, Michael Greene, Kurt Fuller, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 November 199917 October 2025 by Roog

Scary Movie (2000)

Rating: ★

Jun 9, 2000Genre Spoof

The first in a popular series of comedies, this spoofs the recent hits of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer in the most vulgar and witless way possible

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Actors: Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Shannon Elizabeth, Shawn Wayans, …

Category: Horror

9 June 200028 July 2026 by Roog

Repli-Kate (2002)

Rating: ★★

Apr 15, 2020Cloning Comedy

Comedy released under the National Lampoon banner in which a nerdy student accidentally creates a clone of his object of desire. This feels like a mash-up between Weird Science and a frat rat comedy

Director: Frank Longo

Actors: Ali Landry, James Roday, Desmond Askew, Eugene Levy, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 April 202022 April 2026 by Roog

Superhero Movie (2008)

Rating: ★

May 4, 2008Superhero Movie Parody

A Scary Movie-styled parody of the early 00s spate of superhero films, this has a few amsingly on-target spoofs of its targets (especially Spider-Man) but is mostly scattershot

Director: Craig Mazin

Actors: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Leslie Nielsen, Christopher McDonald, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 May 20081 July 2026 by Roog

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 5, 2011Man Timeslips to 1920s Paris Comedy

An appealingly lightweight whimsy from Woody Allen in which Owen Wilson keeps timeslipping between the present and 1920s Paris where he meets the artistic/literary greats

Director: Woody Allen

Actors: Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, …

Category: Fantasy

5 June 20113 September 2026 by Roog

The Frozen Ground (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 23, 2022True-Life Serial Killer

A film based on true-life serial killer Robert Hansen who would fly girls out into the Alaskan wilderness and then hunt them. Nicolas Cage is the dogged detective up against John Cusack as the killer

Director: Scott Walker

Actors: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, Kevin Dunn, …

Category: Horror

23 November 20222 July 2026 by Roog