Murder in Space (1985)
Oct 1, 2024Murder Mystery Aboard a Space Mission
TV movie that had a unique selling point – a whodunit set aboard an international space mission – where viewers were invited to guess who the killer was
Wendy Crewson
The Mark of Cain (1985)
Jan 17, 2010Evil Twin Psycho-Thriller
An obscure Canadian-made thriller about an evil twin
The Good Son (1993)
Apr 8, 2001Psycho Child
A variant on the evil child psycho-thriller, this seems set up specifically to allow Macaulay Culkin, the obnoxious cute kid from Home Alone, to trash his wholesome image
The Santa Clause (1994)
Feb 18, 2000Man Becomes Santa
Popular film with Tim Allen as a regular family man who is forced to become Santa. Several sequels followed.
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
Apr 27, 2003Ghosts of Memory
Ambiguous ghost story in which Peter Gallagher sees and talks to his late wife Michelle Pfeiffer. Written by hit tv producer David E. Kelley (The Practice), this frequently disappears into its own self-congratulatory dialogue
The Eighteenth Angel (1998)
Mar 14, 1999Biblical End Times Prophecies
David Seltzer, the screenwriter of The Omen, recycles himself here where Rachael Leigh Cook is caught up in the coming Biblical End of the World around the turn of the millennium
Bicentennial Man (1999)
Dec 21, 1999Robot Gains Self-Awareness/Isaac Asimov Adaptation
Isaac Asimov may not have been the best science-fiction writer ever but his stories buzzed with challenging ideas. In the hands of Chris Columbus, one of Asimov's robot stories is reduced to mawkish sentimentalism
The 6th Day (2000)
Nov 19, 2000Cloned Man/Action
Arnold Schwarzenegger revisits something of Total Recall in this modest and clever action film in which he discovers that a clone has stolen his life
Mercy (2000)
Sep 30, 2000Psycho-Sexual Thriller
One of the better copies of Basic Instinct with detective Ellen Barkin being tempted as she investigates a serial killer who is targeting women who were involved with a lesbian call girl
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Dec 13, 2002Santa Seeks a Wife
The first of two sequels to The Santa Clause with Tim Allen as Santa Claus, this benefits from a bigger budget
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Santa vs Jack Frost
Third of the Santa Clause films starring Tim Allen as Santa where his reality is upended by the evil Jack Frost
The Covenant (2006)
Oct 21, 2007Teen Male Witches
Ridiculous film from the perpetually awful Renny Harlin about teen male witches that feels like a gender-swapped version of The Craft cast with pretty boys and directed amid absurdly overblown effects
Skinwalkers (2006)
Mar 7, 2009Werewolves
A big-budget revival of the werewolf film set amongst warring werewolf clans of bikers. Produced by Stan Winston and with an interesting cast line-up
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)
Feb 1, 2009Epic Fantasy Adventure
Adaptation of Susan Cooper's popular fantasy series handled by people who have no interest in the material and badly rewrite/mangle it in order try to turn it into a Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings knockoff
Antiviral (2012)
Oct 5, 2012Future World of Celebrity Viruses
Brandon Cronenberg makes an impressive writing-directing debut, taking up the thematic reins of his father's earlier films in a darkly satiric future escalation of contemporary celebrity culture
Ascension (2014)
Apr 17, 2015Generation Ship
Fascinating tv mini-series set around the notion of a generation ship – the show explores the scenario in interesting ways then proceeds to put some wild spins on what we think is happening
Death Wish (2018)
Sep 22, 2018Vigilante Film
Eli Roth’s remake of the classic Charles Bronson vigilante film is an ugly affair. In an era where school shooting are a weekly scourge in the US, do we really need another fantasy about one man becoming empowered and sorting things out with a gun?