Testament (1983)
Apr 19, 2004Nuclear Holocaust
Part of a cluster of strong strong and powerful depiction of the outbreak of nuclear war that came out in the mid-1980s. This avoids melodrama by staying focused on a family's attempts to cope
Lukas Haas
Solarbabies (1986)
Jan 20, 2005Post-Holocaust Teen Sports Team
Embarrassingly bad Mel Brooks produced film that seems to have been conceived in terms of conducting a juvenile Mad Max film on rollerskates and throwing SF cliches about without any coherent script
Lady in White (1988)
Apr 5, 1999Ghost Story
This is a beautifully made Coming of Age ghost story from the greatly underrated Frank LaLoggia wherein a bullied Lukas Haas is led by a ghost to uncover a murderer
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Mar 17, 2001Gonzo Alien Invasion
Tim Burton makes a film based on the old Topps bubblegum card series about Martian invaders, which becomes an affectionately goofy tribute to 1950s alien invasion cinema
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Apr 12, 2003Surreal Musical Comedy
Woody Allen makes a musical. It is Allen in a much lighter mood than he was in the early 1990s and the film comes with some appealingly eccentric and often downright surreal touches
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Sep 11, 1999Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation
Disappointing adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel from Adam Rudolph that substitutes Vonnegut's satire for clumsy, ham-fisted farce that never gives us any clear idea what it is satirising
Lathe of Heaven (2002)
Aug 30, 2022Man Whose Dreams Change the World When He Wakes
This was the second film adaptation of conceptually ingenious Ursula Le Guin novel about a man whose dreams change reality around him whenever he wakes up
Long Time Dead (2002)
Sep 5, 2002Malevolent Djinn
This is a modest British horror film about a group of students that accidentally summon a djinn during a seance that proceeds to possess one of the group and kill all the others present
Inception (2010)
Sep 23, 2010Dream Espionage
Christopher Nolan's The Matrix. Concerning an action theme that invade people's dreams, this is a bold, brilliantly original SF film driven by ideas - a film that succeeds beautifully on all levels
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Mar 13, 2011Adult Fairytale
Catherine Hardwcke's adapts the fairytale as a dark adult fantasy where there has been the clear intention to pitch it to Twilight audiences but the results are surprisingly good