The Ice Pirates (1984)
Apr 1, 2003Space Opera
A space opera that was made in the aftermath of Star Wars. It is a magpie collage of influences that are not always the most coherently presented and given a comic emphasis
Stewart Raffill
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
Jul 2, 2001Time Travel Experiment Amok
Based on a non-fiction, fringe science book that makes claims that the US Navy conducted experiments that turned a ship invisible during WWII, this spins the idea out into a modest time travel story
Mac and Me (1988)
Mar 7, 2000Cute Alien
A children's movie that is a shameless and derivative copy of E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, featuring one of the dopiest looking aliens ever designed for a film
Mannequin on the Move (1991)
Aug 6, 2003Romance with a Statue Comes to Life
A sequel to the Mannequin, the inane comedy about a romance with a storefront dummy come to life. Here Kristy Swanson plays a princess who is turned into a statue before being awoken in the present
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
Nov 4, 2020Teen Transplanted Into a Robot Dinosaur Body
One of the films that came out in the aftermath of Jurassic Park, notable only for the absurdity of its premise wherein teen Paul Walker's brain is transplanted into an animatronic dinosaur body and he struggles to reconnect with girlfriend Denise Richards
Bad Girl Island (2007)
Dec 5, 2024Mysterious Femme Fatale
A film that feels like it should be an erotic thriller but isn’t. Antonio Sabato Jr. rescues an amnesiac Annalynne McCord who proceeds to exert a fatal influence