The Midnight Hour (1985)
Apr 8, 2001Halloween Special
Classic Halloween tv special. As with most of its ilk, it places the focus on a light-hearted treatment where the monsters are no more serious than Halloween revelers
Kurtwood Smith
RoboCop (1987)
Jan 16, 2005Cyborg Cop
A popular hit that spins the cyborg cop theme through a Cyberpunk future, while director Paul Verhoeven piles on excesses of violence and black humour. A darkly funny satire of Reaganite America, this is an entertainingly slick comic-book of a movie
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
Boxing Helena (1993)
Jan 26, 2000Sexual Obsession and Amputation
David Lynch’s daughter Jennifer directs a film about a surgeon who abducts a woman and amputates her limbs to make her love him. A critical bomb, it is a not uninteresting work about woman’s desire handled with more taste than you would think
The Crush (1993)
Oct 13, 2000Psycho Underage Girl
A copy of Fatal Attraction where Cary Elwes rents a room from a family only to find himself dealing with a psychopathic underage Alicia Silverstone determined to seduce/wreak vengeance
Fortress (1993)
Sep 9, 1999Future Prison
Stuart Gordon, a cult director on the basis of Re-Animator, ventures into making an SF action film set in a futuristic prison. The film has a bone-headed script that feels like it is only rehashing cliches from every SF film
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Nov 6, 2000Action/Advanced Weaponry
Sequel to Under Siege in which Steven Seagal was a lone individual in a Die Hard scenario defending a battleship against a terrorist takeover; this is the same but with Seagal defending a train
Broken Arrow (1995)
Aug 25, 2002Action/Nuclear Hijacking
John Woo's second Hollywood film, an action film about nuclear hijacking. Woo's unique stylistics promptly get buried under the machinery of big-budget action filmmaking
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
Feb 14, 2010Animation/DC Comics Superhero
The DC Universe Original Animated Movies conduct a solid and worthwhile animated retelling of the Green Lantern origin story, which delves into all the aspects of the mythos
Hitchcock (2012)
Dec 1, 2012The Making of Psycho
A non-fiction film about Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho. The script does a great job nailing the psychological undertows and the parts are brought to life with several tour-de-force performances
Amityville: The Awakening (2017)
Oct 29, 2017Haunted House
No less than the twentieth film spun out around The Amityville Horror. This Blumhouse revival emerges as marginally better than most films with Amityville in the name
Firestarter (2022)
May 20, 2022Pyrokinesis/Stephen King Adaptation
One of Stephen King’s best books is given a new film workover by Blumhouse. Keith Thomas made a standout directorial debut with The Vigil, but this is a disaster, one of the worst of all King adaptations
In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)
Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films
A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover