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.
Whoopi Goldberg
The Lion King (1994)
Dec 31, 2001Disney Animation/Talking Animals
One of the best films to come out of Disney's animation renaissance during the 1990s, this uses all the studio as its disposal to create a work that is epic in its scope
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Sep 11, 2000Intergalactic Adventures
The first of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films is an odd affair that seems like a routine episode of the series that accidentally gained a big-screen budget. This crosses over with Classic Trek where William Shatner mugs his way through a grand old airing of Captain Kirk
The Pagemaster (1994)
Aug 31, 2004Adventures in the Land of Fiction
Amiable if lightweight film where a live-action Macaulay Culkin gets animated and has a series of adventures in a Land of Fiction where he must pass through various classic stories
Theodore Rex (1995)
May 24, 2010Cop and Dinosaur Partner
Disastrous flop that tries to do a Lethal Weapon buddy cop film by way of Jurassic Park and gives us a film about a cop with a dinosaur partner!
Bogus (1996)
Apr 23, 1999Child's Invisible Companion
Sweetly likeable Norman Jewison film in which Whoopi Goldberg receives guardianship of young Haley Joel Osment only to find he has an invisible companion in Gerard Depardieu
A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Dec 3, 2007Scientist Time Travels Back to Camelot Comedy
A modernised version of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court with Whoopi Goldberg as a physicist who time travels back to Camelot
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Nov 22, 2008Animation/Talking Babies
The first film spinoff of the popular animated tv series Rugrats about infants observing the adult world
Alice in Wonderland (1999)
Jun 30, 2003Alice in Wonderland TV Adaptation
A fairly reasonable tv mini-series adaptation of Lewis Carroll – a version that excels in terms of design and in using The Jim Henson Workshop to bring the Wonderland creatures to life
The Magical Land of the Leprechauns (1999)
May 1, 2010Leprechaun Fantasy
Lively and undeniably likeable Hallmark mini-series that celebrates Irish myth. Giddily silly nonsense conducted with a boisterous energy
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000)
Jul 2, 2000Characters From a Cartoon Series Enter the Real World
Cinematic revival of the old Rocky and Bullwinkle series having the two animated characters emerge into the real (live-action) world. A film that you feel should have been funnier and more energetic than is
Monkeybone (2001)
Feb 23, 2001Cartoonist in the Afterlife
Henry Selick's first venture into live-action in which Brendan Fraser becomes trapped in a bizarre afterlife while a mischievous monkey steals his body
Racing Stripes (2005)
Jan 16, 2005Racing Zebra/Talking Barnyard Animals
Schizoid film - on one level a National Velvet-like story in which Hayden Panettiere trains a zebra to enter a horse race; another in which the animals and insects crack one-liners and make poop and pee jokes
The Muppets (2011)
Nov 19, 2011Muppet Movie
Surprisingly fun revival of the Muppets that reboots the series after the insipid entries of the last few years and succeeds by going back to recapture the sly double-level of humour that Jim Henson patented
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Aug 9, 2014Comic-Book Superheroes
This reboot of the pop culture icons of 80s/90s is an ugly failure on almost every level. The Turtles I remember were hip, funky and bubbled with boyish enthusiasm; these Turtles seem sinister oversized creations, while the film's adrenalised over-production and emphasis on grit seems to have missed the essential element of fun
The Truth is in the Stars (2017)
Feb 23, 2018Documentary About the Possible Path to Space
The William Shatner documentary is a fascinatingly bizarre beast. This involves Shatner talking to a bunch of scientists and celebrities, before meeting with Stephen Hawking but peculiarly enough seems to have no central thesis or idea about what it is setting out to prove
The Stand (2020-2021)
Mar 5, 2021Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation
The Stand is in my opinion Stephen King’s greatest book. The question is whether this new mini-series version will improve on the laughably failed 1994 version
Luck (2022)
Mar 5, 2023Animation/The Land of Luck
Disgraced former Pixar head John Lasseter makes a returns to animation for Skydance in an incredibly lightweight effort about adventures in the land of luck
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
Feb 23, 2025Christopher Reeve Documentary
A documentary about the career of Superman star Christopher Reeve and his dealing with life following the accident that left him a quadriplegic