Can’t Be Heaven (1998)
Feb 26, 2007Coming of Age/Ghostly Saxophonist
A low-budget Coming of Age story about growing up in an Italian-American neighbourhood. Ralph Macchio turns up as a ghostly saxophonist to offer advice
Michelle Trachtenberg
Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish (1998)
Sep 16, 2005Comic-Book Rich Kid/Alternate Timeline
Cheaply made video sequel to the Macaulay Culkin Richie Rich based on the popular comic-book character, this steals the basic plot of It's a Wonderful Life
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Jul 27, 1999Cyborg Cop/Cartoon in Live-Action
A live-action adaptation of the popular animated series, one of the spate of such films made after the live-action The Flintstones. Amiably silly and frequently slapstick fun that proves to be exactly what one expects of it
Black Christmas (2006)
Dec 14, 2008Girl's Dormitory Slasher
Another in the mid-2000s fad for 1970s remakes. This revives what has been cited as the first slasher film but throws most of the original out and turns the rest into a gore-drenched slasher film
17 Again (2009)
Apr 16, 2009Ageswap Fantasy
Ageswap fantasy in which middle-aged Matthew Perry is rejuvenated as a teenage Zac Efron. A glib fantasy that seems made by abstinence campaigners