D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Feb 8, 2005Android Boy
Barret Oliver plays an android boy on the run from his creators who shelters with a human family. This promptly employs all the cliches of the post-E.T. film
Michael McKean
Short Circuit 2 (1988)
Apr 19, 2004Cute Robot
Sequel to the cute robot film pushes the cutsie elements to a nauseatingly anthropomorphished extreme, having it spout smartass colloquialisms and erasing even basic credibility
Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)
Jun 10, 2002Wacky Alien Visitors/Rock'n'Roll Genre Spoof
Wackily funny SF musical with Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey as aliens who land in the San Fernando Valley. Directed by Julien Temple with a giddily effervescent silliness
Hider in the House (1989)
Mar 29, 2015Psycho Hiding in the Attic
A psycho film with an original premise – Gary Busey as a psycho who builds a hidey-hole in the attic of a house where he spies on and tries to manipulate the lives of the family living there
Coneheads (1993)
Jan 6, 2003Alien Visitors Comedy
Film spinoff of a Dan Aykroyd skit on Saturday Night Live about a family of aliens ho attempting to maintain ordinary suburban life on Earth The film has a really wacky sense of humour, which is probably why it was a box-office flop
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
Dec 12, 2004Friendly Ghost
The first of the video-released sequels to the Casper the Friendly Ghost film, this is played down to children and comes with much in the way of slapstick
Small Soldiers (1998)
Nov 5, 1999War Between Toys
Joe Dante has resorted to a rehash of his biggest hit Gremlins, seemingly conceptually slung together with Toy Story - concerning an army of malevolent toy soldiers come to life
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Aug 22, 1999Pupils vs Teacher Psycho-Thriller
Scream writer Kevin Williamson's made his directorial debut with this playful thriller in which Katie Holmes and fellow students imprison a teacher who has marked down her grades
Little Nicky (2000)
Nov 10, 2000The Devil's Son Comedy
The Adam Sandler comedy and its pitch to the most vulgar common denominator is an acquired taste. This not very funny effort casts Sandler as The Devil's Son
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)
Jan 11, 2009Disney Animation Sequel
One of Disney's cheaply produced video sequel to their animated film made during the 1990s/2000s. This one actually emerges as superior to the original
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
Nov 18, 2007Christmas Film
Dull live-action tv remake of the Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated Christmas special
Joshua (2007)
Dec 15, 2007Psycho Child
Another variant on the evil child theme, this suffers from far too mannered an approach where you keep waiting for it to pull back and sink its teeth into something shocking
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part I (2012)
Dec 22, 2012Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
The first of a two-part animated adaptation of the classic graphic novel ever written. The film lacks the same impact because, firstly, it is an incomplete story, and secondly, Frank Miller's ideas have now become so much part of the modern Batman
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part II (2013)
May 6, 2013Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
The second of the two-part animated adaptation of Frank Miller's classic graphic novel. More satisfying than the first part, this where the story comes into its own
Good Omens (2019)
Jun 14, 2019Biblical End Times/Antichrist Comedy
TV mini-series based on the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel that spoofs The Omen and Biblical End Times prophecies. The series is very close to the book as though it didn't want to edit any precious gag