The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
May 4, 2000Possession
This predates The Exorcist in its possession themes where Perry King becomes possessed by the spirit of a Puerto Rican killer
Shirley MacLaine
Being There (1979)
Jan 15, 2019Complete Innocent/Satiric Fable
The penultimate screen role of Peter Sellers, a sublimely deadpan satire in which he plays a gardener with the blank innocence of a child whose simple-minded utterances are taken as words of great profundity
Bewitched (2005)
Sep 3, 2005Witch in Love/TV Series Remake
The hit 1960s sitcom is repackaged as a frothy Nora Ephron romcom that suffers from a fatal mismatching of a showboating Will Ferrell and a more subdued Nicole Kidman who do not seem to connect in any way as Darren and Samantha
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Jan 12, 2014Daydreamer's Fantasies
Ben Stiller's remake of the unfunny Danny Kaye vehicle about an impractical daydreamer has no more depth than an inspirational postcard and takes a long time to deliver it
The Little Mermaid (2018)
Sep 23, 2019Mermaid Film
Not the Disney film, but a live-action film only loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale. Not much more than a nicely made average film but one conducted with evident care