Past Perfect (1996)
Dec 12, 2004Assassins from the Future/Action
SF action film with Eric Roberts as a future cop travelling through time trying to stop kids before they become criminals
Mark Hildreth
Barbie as Rapunzel (2002)
May 24, 2009Animation/Barbie Enacts Fairytale
The second of the animated Barbie films, this casts her as the title character in the popular Brothers Grimm fairytale, which has been considerably embellished. This suffers the glassy plasticity of the early Mainframe films
Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)
Mar 7, 2005Animation/Barbie Enacts Fairytale
The third animated film based on the popular girl's doll Barbie. This places Barbie into Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake in an okay telling, if one that suffers from the usual limited animation of Mainframe's early films
Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper (2004)
Jul 17, 2009Animation/Barbie Fairytale
Here the Barbie films turn to Mark Twain's classic (non-fantasy) tale of rags and riches and spins it as a fairytale This has the same blank, plastic style of the early Barbie films and is otherwise bland
Earthsea (2004)
Jun 21, 2006Epic Fantasy/Apprentice Wizard
This TV mini-series adaptation of the Ursula Le Guin books is an insult. This was quickly mounted on the back of the success of The Lord of the Rings films but feels like tv filler that has zero affinity for Le Guin's richly cultured world
Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
Feb 27, 2014Animation/Barbie Swashbuckler
Alexandre Dumas's classic adventure story is turned into an animated vehicle for Barbie with genders reversed and an absurdly upbeat Girls Can Do Anything vibe. Being a kid's film, the girl Musketeers are no longer allowed to wield swords
Planet Hulk (2010)
Oct 19, 2020Animation/Marvel Comics Superhero
Animated adaptation of the one of the biggest Marvel Comics event storylines of the 2000s - the same one also used in Thor Ragnarok. Essentially Spartacus recast with The Incredible Hulk