The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)
Dec 4, 2002Animation/Talking Animal Quest
The first film from Don Bluth, a Disney animator who formed his own company vowing a return to the studio's classic tradition. The results are beautiful and quite magical
Wil Wheaton
The Curse (1987)
Jun 3, 2000Mutations/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation
Actor David Keith directs an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Color Out of Space. Unfortunately the focus on cheesy and ridiculous effects quickly takes the exercise down into Grade Z territory
Mr. Stitch (1995)
Jan 27, 2006Modernised Frankenstein Film
Tarantino associate Roger Avary comes up with a modernised take on the Frankenstein story, an interestingly ambitious effort that features Wil Wheaton as a patchwork creation coming to understand his condition
Flubber (1997)
Jan 1, 2000Absent-Minded Professor Remake
Remake of Disney’s The Absent-Minded Professor where the charms of the original are buried under an excess of twee - where the professor now gets a cute robot assistant and the flubber becomes sentient
Python (2000)
Apr 17, 2010Giant Snake Amok
One of the more likeable among the 2000s fad for low-budget CGI monster movies, this is aided considerably by a sense of humour and a line-up of oddball characters
Book of Days (2003)
Feb 14, 2010Book With the Dates of People's Deaths
Christian film in which insurance agent Wil Wheaton receives the title book containing the dates on which people are going to die and uses it to make his quotas
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
Mar 16, 2020Animation/Comic-Book Superhero Team
Film spinoff from the animated tv series Teen Titans Go! This hits in with an hilairous barrage of one-liners wickedly spoofing the superhero genre and jokes at DC Comics canon
Rent-a-Pal (2020)
Jan 15, 2021Sinister Video Friend
Horror film about a downtrodden man tending a dementia-ridden mother who encounters a video friendship service where Wil Wheaton proves a cheery but increasingly disturbing new best friend
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)
Feb 20, 2022Videogamers vs Unleashed Demonic Entity
Videogamers fight a demonic entity unleashed from a 1980s game. A film that is far more fun that you expect and comes loaded with videogaming in-jokes
In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)
Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films
A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover