Willow (1988)
Nov 9, 2003Epic Fantasy
Outside of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, George Lucas has not had much success. This epic fantasy was a big flop where Ron Howard's lightweight touch fails to make a one-dimensional plot fly
Rick Overton
The High Crusade (1994)
Nov 17, 2000Bumbling Crusaders in Space
Roland Emmerich produced comedy about a group of crusaders abducted by aliens where their bumbling ends up accidentally winning a space war. A promising idea rendered as idiotic knockabout farce.
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Oct 19, 2002Giant Spiders
Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin turn their attentions to revamping the 1950s giant insect film. They bring top-drawer effects to bear but everything else plays to standard formula
Northfork (2003)
May 29, 2014Strange Film About Angels
The Polish Brothers, two of the most underrated creative teams in the US today, make a rather puzzling film about angels that feels like muted Coen Brothers. The film is cool, measured, has often striking imagery but leaves you scratching your head trying to figure out what it is about
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
Mar 20, 2009Man Builds His Own Rocket
The Polish Brothers are a greatly underrated force in US filmmaking. Here they make a fine film with Billy Bob Thornton as an everyday farmer who decides to build and launch his own space rocket
A Haunted House 2 (2014)
Jun 1, 2015Genre Spoof
Sequel to A Haunted House where writer/star Marlon Wayans conducted a riff on the Scary Movie films. This is marginally more amusing than its predecessor
Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Aug 27, 2017Lost in a Cardboard Labyrinth
A man builds a cardboard maze in his living room only for he and others to become lost in it. This has a wonderfully inventive scrappy handmade eccentricity. Imagine Cube remade as one of Michel Gondry's sweded films