The Carpenter (1988)
May 7, 2015Ghostly Handyman
Odd effort that features Wings Hauser as a polite and charming ghostly handyman who romances the heroine while despatching the people around her. Not a great film but Hauser has never been better
Ron Lea
Escape from Mars (1999)
Dec 31, 2008Expedition to Mars
One of several Mars movies that came out around 1999-2000, this concerns the first manned expedition and their efforts to survive after being stranded on the Martian surface
Dorian (2003)
Aug 22, 2024Eternally Youthful Libertine
A modernised version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray where a male model transfers his image to a photograph that ages while he remains immortal
The Phantom (2009)
Jun 26, 2011Comic-Book Superhero
A mini-series based on the classic comic-book masked hero but the attempts to modernise The Phantom for the post-Dark Knight era seem bizarrely awkward
Imaginaerum (2012)
May 4, 2014Journey Through a Dying Man's Mind
A film based on the album by Finnish symphonic metal group Nightwish that takes place inside the allegorical mental terrain of a dying rock star. This collapses into the over-inflated amateur symbolism of a music video