Late for Dinner (1991)
Aug 2, 2000Cryogenic Sleepers Awake in the Present
A thoughtful and well-written Cryogenic Sleepers Awake film that charts the culture shock experienced by two men frozen in the 1960s and thawed out in the present day
Marcia Gay Harden
Spy Hard (1996)
Dec 13, 2002Spy Movie Spoof
Styled in the same movie parody style vein as Airplane, this digs into the spy movie, although in actuality it is more of a scattershot spoof of films of then-recent vintage. Leslie Nielsen found regular employ in these types of film
Flubber (1997)
Jan 1, 2000Absent-Minded Professor Remake
Remake of Disney’s The Absent-Minded Professor where the charms of the original are buried under an excess of twee - where the professor now gets a cute robot assistant and the flubber becomes sentient
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Jul 16, 1999Death Falls in Love
Ponderous big screen remake of Death Takes a Holiday where Death in the form of Brad Pitt comes to Earth, engages in a romance
Space Cowboys (2000)
Aug 6, 2000Aging Astronauts Reunite for a Space Mission
Clint Eastwood directs a film about a quartet of aging NASA astronauts reunited for one mission back into space after forty years.
The Dead Girl (2006)
Dec 2, 2007The Women Affected By a Serial Killer
Karen Moncrieff directs a strong and powerful drama that tells five stories of the women whose lives are affected by a serial killer. The film has an amazing ensemble cast who deliver sterling performances
The Mist (2007)
May 25, 2009Creatures in the Fog/Stephen King Adaptation
Frank Darabont delivers one of the best Stephen King adaptations where the story of people at siege in a supermarket from unseen creatures in a mystery fog outside becomes a study in fear and prejudice. With one of the great unforgettable endings
The Invisible (2007)
Jun 15, 2009Disembodied Teenager
David S. Goyer directed remake of a Swedish film about a teenager stuck in a disembodied state between life and death. Despite Goyer’s sterling resume as a screenwriter, this fails to work
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Jul 30, 2014Possibly Fake/Real Medium Comedy
One of Woody Allen's slighter films about rationalist Colin Firth who is debunking medium Emma Stone but becomes convinced of her powers as romance sparkles