Anna to the Infinite Power (1982)
Jun 5, 1999Child Genius/Cloning
A modest and quite well written children's film about a gifted twelve year-old (Martha Byrne) who gradually discovers that she is a clone
Loretta Devine
The Preacher’s Wife (1996)
Jun 7, 1999Angelic Visitation
Remake of The Bishop's Wife with Denzel Washington as an angel come to aid an overworked pastor but falling for his wife Whitney Houston
Urban Legend (1998)
May 9, 1999Slasher Film
Following the success of Scream, this was an attempt to make an upmarket slasher film based around the motif of urban legends in the same way that Scream used 1980s slasher films. It is a stretch to make urban legends fit in some cases but director Jamie Blanks delivers reasonable tension
What Women Want (2000)
Dec 17, 2000Man Can Read Womens' Minds/Romantic Comedy
Amiable romantic comedy in which Mel Gibson comes round after an accident in the shower to find he now has the ability to read women's thoughts.
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Sep 19, 2000Slasher Film
Sequel fairly much in name only to Urban Legend and barely at all about urban legends, this has the amusing idea of taking place at a film school and features a number of sly asides. This alas befalls routine direction
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Aug 27, 2012Madness and Matricide/True Story
As might be expected, a collaboration between Werner Herzog and David Lynch makes for an exceedingly strange film, involving matricide, mental illness and ostriches – and all apparently based on a true life murder. Very strange, if in the end it only produces a puzzled scratch of the head
Norm of the North (2016)
May 20, 2016Animation/Talking Polar Bear
As animated films go, there are few that feel like a constructor set of pieces copied from every other film than this. Audiences found the adventures of a twerking polar bear lacking too and it made a record for the lowest weekend gross for an animated film ever
Naked (2017)
Sep 4, 2017Timeloop Comedy
Comedic variant on Groundhog Day where Marlon Wayans wakes up naked in an elevator on his wedding day and is forced to repeat the same hour over and over as he tries to get to the church
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)
Dec 27, 2022Documentary About African-Americans in Horror
A documentary about African-Americans in the horror genre that covers everything from the earliest depictions through the Blaxploitation film to the rise of Black filmmakers
Spell (2020)
Feb 7, 2023Backwoods Voodoo
Bizarrely overwrought film in which a successful city lawyer is made prisoner by a backwoods voodoo priestess