The Return (1981)
Mar 8, 2011UFO Contact and Cattle Multilations
Influenced by Close Encounters of the Third Kind, this is a strange film about UFOs and cattle mutilations. Explanations are not always clear but the film boasts a great cast
Vincent Schiavelli
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension (1984)
Apr 16, 1999Funky Inventor Hero vs Alien Invaders
An object lesson in how to create an instant cult film – exceedingly eccentric, a commercial failure at the box-office, it instantly receiving a fan clique – all without it ever being a particularly great film
Ghost (1990)
Oct 19, 2002Man Returns as a Ghost
A popular hit in which Patrick Swayze is killed and becomes a ghost. Bruce Joel Rubin's script has enormous fun in interpreting aspects of the ghost story from the ghost's point-of-view.
Mister Frost (1990)
Nov 28, 2023The Devil in an Asylum
Fine film that deserves wider recognition with Jeff Goldblum as a man in an asylum who claims to be The Devil
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
Lurking Fear (1994)
Mar 24, 2015H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Creatures Beneath the Graveyard
Charles and Albert Band had a success with the H.P. Lovecraft adapted Re-Animator; their attempt to replicate that with another Lovecraft story is lacking Stuart Gordon's splattery black humour
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Mar 18, 2003Occult Detective/War Between Magicians
Clive Braker's third and final outing as a director. Barker is trying to tell an occult detective story but fails to get any of the mood that film noir operates by
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Nov 19, 1999James Bond Film
Pierce Brosnan's second outing as James Bond holds up fairly well, especially in the action department, although Jonathan Pryce seems miscast as a Rupert Murdoch-modeled super-villain
Casper Meets Wendy (1998)
Mar 18, 2003Comic-Book Characters Meet
The second of the video-released sequels to Casper where this time he crosses over to meet Wendy the Good Little Witch as played by Hilary Duff
Snow White (2001)
Jun 29, 2008Fairy-Tale
Caroline Thompson, a regular Tim Burton scriptwriter, directs a uniquely revisionist version of the fairytale in which she digs in to explain the origins of many of the familiar aspects of the story