The Green Hornet (1974)
Jun 14, 2010Masked Superhero
The Green Hornet was a tv series based on the radio and serial masked hero. Following Bruce Lee's ascent to superstardom, three episodes of the series were re-edited as a feature film
Mako
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Sep 11, 2003Lost World
An underrated and quite magnificent lost world adventure from Disney with an airship crew in search of a lost Viking world in the Arctic. Contains some absolutely stunning effects work for the era.
Under the Rainbow (1981)
Oct 31, 2008Comedy During the Making of The Wizard of Oz
Widely considered a bad film, this is a slapstick comedy starring Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher set around the dwarves during the making of The Wizard of Oz
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
May 31, 2001Sword and Sorcery
Adaptation of Robert E. Howard's pulp adventure stories and the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. The script from Oliver Stone takes unevenly from Howard but director John Milius gives the film a brutal, primal majesty
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
May 31, 2001Sword and Sorcery
This sequel to Conan the Barbarian makes the mistake of watering the primal brutalism down to a PG rating and what results ends up being a pedestrian comic-book adventure
Pacific Heights (1990)
Feb 6, 2000Psycho Tenant
Thriller in which landlords Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith's lives are terrorised by psychopathic tenant Michael Keaton
RoboCop 3 (1993)
Jul 1, 2000Cyborg Cop
The third Robocop film killed the series off with a disastrous decision to go for a PG rating and pair Robocop with a cute kid
Highlander III: The Sorceror (1994)
May 27, 2001Immortal Combat
The third Highlander film is better than the abysmal second one was. It comes with slick visuals but an often absurd plot that strains to spin the concept out any further
Crying Freeman (1995)
Nov 1, 2009Manga Adaptation/Mysterious Assassin
The first feature film from Christophe Gans is a live-action adaptation of a manga about an assassin. Gans turns out a film that dazzles with the flamboyance of his action sequences
The Bird People in China (1998)
Oct 17, 2004Lost Culture
An early Takashi Miike film that forsakes his usual ultra-violence and surreal weirdness for a genteel road movie through backwater China to the discovery of a lost culture
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000)
Jan 1, 2010Animation/Talking Babies
The second entry in the ultra-annoying animated franchise spun off from the animated tv series that only seems to centre around poo and pee jokes, this is marginally more enjoyable than the first film
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
Aug 20, 2003Martial Arts Fantasy
Painfully derivative US-made attempt to jump aboard the popularity of Wu Xia following The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. There are talented people involved who should have known better
TMNT (2007)
Apr 19, 2007Comic-Book Superheroes/Animation
Animated revival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which brings them back to the screen with a satisfyingly gritty edge and a series of kinetic action sequences
Rise (2007)
Mar 7, 2008Vampire Hunter
Overlooked at the time it was released, this is a stylish and quite well made film with Lucy Liu playing a vampire hunter