Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
Jun 24, 2025Spider Takeover
A 1970s Animals Attack film as deadly tarantula spiders take over a small town
Pat Hingle
The Land Before Time (1988)
May 12, 2000Animation/Talking Dinosaurs
Likeable but lightweight talking dinosaur film. This aims to be a prehistoric Bambi but never quite finds the depth. A large number of video-released sequels followed
Batman (1989)
Mar 26, 2000Comic-Book Superhero
Tim Burton borrows from the dark brooding graphic novels of the era and gives us a beautiful, stunningly designed film that digs deep into the psychological recesses of the masks and funny faces
Batman Returns (1992)
Dec 26, 2000Comic-Book Superhero
The second of Tim Burton's Batman films is even more beautifully dark and glistering than the first, introducing Michelle Pfeiffer as a sizzling Cat Woman and Danny De Vito as a venomous Penguin who respectively own the show
Batman Forever (1995)
Apr 30, 2001Comic-Book Superhero
Tim Burton’s superlative duo of Batman films were wrecked after Joel Schumacher took up the director’s chair and turned the films into giant camp fests. Here he allows a madly overacting Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones loose as the villains
The Shining (1997)
Mar 26, 2007Haunted Hotel/Cabin Fever/Stephen King Adaptation
Stephen King expressed dissatisfaction with the way Stanley Kubrick handled his novel and here remakes it as a tv mini-series that adheres more closely to the book. While Kubrick’s film is far better, this is not bad where even the perpetually awful Mick Garris subdues his tendency to overdo everything towards some subtlety
Batman & Robin (1997)
Sep 30, 2000Comic-Book Superhero
Possibly the worst film ever made on a big studio budget, Joel Schumacher’s follow-up to Tim Buton's standout Batman films where he turns everything into an absurd Day Glo realm with a script for two year-olds, campy puns and badly overacting super-villains
Muppets from Space (1999)
Jul 17, 1999Muppet Movie
The third and one of the better of the generally insipid Muppet movies produced following Jim Henson's death. This tells the story of Gonzo's origins as an alien where the film borrows spoofs the then-popularity of tv's The X Files