Larry Miller Archives

The Nutty Professor (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 11, 2000Personality Transformation Formula Comedy

Remake of the Jerry Lewis film is a comedic tour-de-force for Eddie Murphy as he swings between a shy 400 lb professor and a manic, testostoronally charged health junkie

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, Dave Chappelle, Larry Miller, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 March 200022 January 2025 by Roog

Carnival of Souls (1998)

Rating: ★

Nov 17, 2000Haunting and Hallucination

Carnival of Souls was rediscovered as a cult classic in the 1980s. Then there was this remake that misses all of the haunted mood of the original in favour of makeup effects jumps and reality blurrings that make no sense

Director: Adam Grossman

Actors: Bobbie Phillips, Larry Miller, Shawnee Smith, Paul Johansson

Category: Horror

17 November 200028 November 2023 by Roog

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins (2000)

Rating: ★★

Aug 18, 2000Space Hero/Animation

Video-released spinoff of the Toy Story films featuring Buzz Lightyear in an adventure. Although released under the Pixar name, the animation is all cheaply produced by a Chinese studio

Director: Tad Stones

Actors: Tim Allen, Nicole Sullivan, Stephen Furst, Larry Miller, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 August 200023 July 2022 by Roog

The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 30, 2000Rejuvenation Formula Comedy

Sequel to the Eddie Murphy remake of The Nutty Professor. That film's tour-de-force was a scene with Murphy playing all the members of his family. Here the family have been brought to the fore. Murphy's performance and the effects are expectedly great but the plot is all over the place

Director: Peter Segal

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 July 200010 September 2024 by Roog

Automaton Transfusion (2006)

Rating: ★★

Feb 21, 2017Zombie Film

Despite a title that resembles more a 1990s killer cyborg film, this is actually a zombie film. Made soon into the mid-2000s zombie revival, this is driven more by fannish enthusiasm and copious gore than anything else

Director: Steven C. Miller

Actors: Garrett Jones, Juliet Reeves, Larry Miller

Category: Horror

21 February 201721 November 2025 by Roog

Alpha and Omega (2010)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 2011Animation/Talking Wolves

A contender in the animation stakes that never rises above formula and cutsie slapstick. Against its many competitors, it offers up only B-budget animation

Director: Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck

Actors: Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Chris Carmack, Christina Ricci, …

Category: Fantasy

1 June 201128 July 2019 by Roog

Hot Bot (2016)

Rating: ★

Aug 1, 2016Sex Android Comedy

The Polish Brothers make some great Midwestern dramas but seem out of their depth trying to make a comedy about a sex robot. that comes out an embarrassingly unfunny variant on Weird Science

Director: Michael Polish

Actors: Doug Haley, Zack Pearlman, Cynthia Kirchner, Larry Miller, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 August 201619 March 2026 by Roog

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (2018)

Rating: ★★

Mar 15, 2019Aging Assassin's Secret History

Full marks for one of the great deliberately ridiculous titles of all time. The film itself is an oddity that almost seems intended to confound your expectations of it

Director: Robert D. Kryzkowski

Actors: Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Larry Miller, …

Category: Horror

15 March 20192 December 2024 by Roog