Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 15, 2001Miniaturised Backyard Adventures
A delightful Disney film about the adventures of a group of kids who are accidentally miniaturised and have to make their way across a now giant-sized backyard. The effects are top-notch and the film pure and unabashed fun

The Stand (1994)

The Stand (1994)
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Jul 1, 2019Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation
The Stand is regarded as Stephen King's best novel, an epic that depicts the final showdown between good and evil in the aftermath of civilisation. The mini-series adaptation was alas placed into the ham fists of one of King's worst adapters. Mick Garris

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996)
Rating: ½
May 17, 1999Messianic Cyberspace Madman
The Lawnmower Man was far from a classic but this sequel has an absurdity that pushes it into extremely bad movie stakes with Matt Frewer as a messiah trying to move everybody into cyberspace

The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)
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Feb 4, 2026Sherlock Holmes Film/Ghostly Dog Mystery
Another adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes quasi-supernatural mystery. This is also one of the worst ever thanks to the wildly over-acted, scenery chewing performance from Matt Frewer, badly miscast as Holmes

Taken (2002)

Taken (2002)
Rating: ★★★½
Aug 7, 2008UFOs and Alien Abductions
TV mini-series in ten two-hour parts that deals with UFOs, covering several generations from the 1940s to the present. An interesting take on UFO encounters with the benefit of some phenomenal performances

Riding the Bullet (2004)

Riding the Bullet (2004)
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Apr 2, 2006Car Ride with the Dead/Stephen King Adaptation
One of the worst Stephen King adaptations due to being placed in the hands of Mick Garris, a director who has no concept of subtlety and constantly tries to turn every scene into a pop-up scare like a tatty carnival haunted house ride

Bag of Bones (2011)

Bag of Bones (2011)
Rating: ★★
Jan 20, 2012Stephen King Adaptation/Ghost Story
The perpetually terrible Mick Garris is allowed loose on another Stephen King book where he promptly reduces a subtle, ambiguous ghost story to a series of lunging pop-up scares without any concept of atmosphere or nuance