The Kushner-Locke Company Archives

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 19, 2000Animation/Talking Appliances

This is a charming and delightful animated film about a group of talking household appliances appliances that set out on a quest to find their young master. Little seen at the time but two sequels followed.

Director: Jerry Rees

Actors: Deanna Oliver, Tim Stack, Jon Lovitz, Thurl Ravenscroft

Category: Fantasy

19 July 200028 December 2025 by Roog

Sensation (1994)

Rating: ★

Apr 19, 1999Psychometry/Erotic Thriller

Kari Wuhrer stars in a tawdry erotic thriller as an art student who gains clairvoyant abilities and gets caught up in solving a murder

Director: Brian Grant

Actors: Kari Wuhrer, Eric Roberts, Ron Perlman, Claire Stansfield, …

Category: Fantasy

19 April 199917 October 2022 by Roog

Josh Kirby … Time Warrior! Planet of the Dino-Knights (1995)

Rating: ★★

Apr 21, 1999Juvenile Adventures Through Time

This was the first and one of the weaker of the generally quite likeable films from Charles Band about the time-travelling adventures of a juvenile hero

Director: Ernest Farino

Actors: Corbin Allred, Jennifer Burns, Barrie Ingham, Derek Webster, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 April 199915 May 2026 by Roog

Josh Kirby … Time Warrior! The Human Pets (1995)

Rating: ★★

Apr 26, 1999Juvenile Adventures Through Time

This was the second and weakest of the Josh Kirby juvenile time travel adventures that takes the young hero and companions to a future where they are enslaved by giants

Director: Frank Arnold

Actors: Corbin Allred, Jennifer Burns, Barrie Ingham, John DeMita, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 April 199915 May 2026 by Roog

Serpent’s Lair (1995)

Rating: ★

May 11, 2015Demonic Seductress

A supernatural version of Fatal Attraction where Jeff Fahey is lured into an affair with a neighbour who is a succubus

Director: Jeffrey Reiner

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Lisa B., Heather Medway, Patrick Bauchau, …

Category: Horror

11 May 201511 March 2025 by Roog

Josh Kirby … Time Warrior! Eggs from 70 Million B.C. (1996)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 21, 2003Juvenile Adventures Through Time

The fourth of the Josh Kirby juveniles and the point the series started to become quite well made. This takes a visit to Azabeth's homeworld of warrior people.

Director: Mark Manos

Actors: Corbin Allred, Jennifer Burns, Barrie Ingham, Derek Webster, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 June 200315 May 2026 by Roog

Josh Kirby … Time Warrior! Journey to the Magic Cavern (1996)

Rating: ★★

Feb 23, 2004Juvenile Adventures Through Time

The fifth of the Josh Kirby juvenile adventures where the young time-travelling hero sets out on a quest to the Magic Cavern to find the Shroom People

Director: Ernest Farino

Actors: Corbin Allred, Barrie Ingham, Jennifer Burns, Matt Winston, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 February 200415 May 2026 by Roog

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 1, 2000Living Puppet Boy

This was a live-action version of the popular story given a reasonable budget and where Pinocchio is brought to life with a blend of CGI and animatronics

Director: Steve Barron

Actors: Martin Landau, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Udo Kier, David Doyle, …

Category: Fantasy

1 November 200021 November 2025 by Roog

Josh Kirby … Time Warrior! Last Battle for the Universe (1996)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 31, 1996Juvenile Adventures Through Time

The sixth and last of the Josh Kirby time-travelling juvenile adventures produced by Charles Band and the best of the series, which takes a trip into Josh's past

Director: Frank Arnold

Actors: Corbin Allred, Jennifer Burns, Derek Webster, Barrie Ingham

Category: Science Fiction

31 December 199615 May 2026 by Roog

Josh Kirby … Time Warrior! Trapped on Toyworld (1996)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 31, 2002Juvenile Adventures Through Time

This was the third of the Josh Kirby juvenile time travelling adventures from Charles Band that takes Josh and his companions to a planet of living toys

Director: Frank Arnold

Actors: Corbin Allred, Derek Webster, Sharon Lee Jones, Barrie Ingham, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 December 200215 May 2026 by Roog

Freeway (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 30, 2010Modernised Little Red Riding Hood/Juvenile Delinquent Drama

Matthew Bright's extraordinary modernisation/trashing of Little Red Riding Hood who becomes Reese Witherspoon's juvenile delinquent who goes hitchhiking and is targeted by serial killer Kiefer Sutherland

Director: Matthew Bright

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Hedaya, Wolfgang Bodison, …

Category: Fantasy

30 June 201010 December 2025 by Roog

The Whole Wide World (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 21, 2000Robert E. Howard Biopic

Biopic of Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja and others. Contains some fine acting from Vincent D/Onofrio and Renee Zellwegeras the teacher he becomes involved with

Director: Dan Ireland

Actors: Renee Zellweger, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell

Category: Fantasy

21 July 200026 October 2020 by Roog

The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 28, 2002Animation/Talking Appliances

Third of the Brave Little Toaster films, this takes the talking appliances to Mars and comes with an appealingly zany sense of humour

Director: Robert C. Ramirez

Actors: Deanna Oliver, Roger Kabler, Eric Lloyd, Tim Stack, …

Category: Fantasy

28 June 20026 March 2020 by Roog

The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 28, 2002Animation/Talking Appliances

The first of two Brave Little Toaster sequels, this plays more along the lines of a regular animated film formula but has its charms

Director: Robert C. Ramirez

Actors: Deanna Oliver, Roger Kabler, Eric Lloyd, Tim Stack, …

Category: Fantasy

28 June 20026 March 2020 by Roog

Murdercycle (1998)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 9, 2001Alien-Possessed Motorcycle

Passable B-budget film about an alien-possessed motorcycle

Director: Tom Callaway

Actors: Charles Wesley, Cassandra Ellis, William Vogt, David A.R. White, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 February 20015 August 2021 by Roog

Beowulf (1999)

Rating: ★½

Jan 15, 2001Epic Legend

An adaptation of the classic epic legend Beowulf that bizarrely recasts the story as a Christopher Lambert-starring action movie and sets it in a post-apocalyptic future

Director: Graham Baker

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra

Category: Fantasy

15 January 200127 November 2025 by Roog

Blood Dolls (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 23, 2000Demented Puppetmaster

Another of Charles Band's doll horror films a la the Puppetmaster and Demonic Toys films. Here Band goes totally gonzo and makes one of the strangest films of his entire career

Director: Charles Band

Actors: Debra Mayer, Phil Fondacaro, Nicholas Worth, Jack Maturin, …

Category: Horror

23 April 200023 September 2024 by Roog

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 7, 2000Modernised Hansel and Gretel/Juvenile Delinquent Drama

Matthew Bright's even better sequel to Freeway where he conducts an outrageous and quite brilliant modernisation of Hansel and Gretel now recast with two juvenile delinquents on the run

Director: Matthew Bright

Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Maria Celedonio, Vincent Gallo, David Alan Grier, …

Category: Fantasy

7 August 200010 December 2025 by Roog

Phantom Town (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 29, 2002Haunted Western Town

A quirkily enjoyable horror Western about children searching for their parents and ending up in a town that exists in an afterlife netherworld populated by an assortment of weird creatures

Director: Jeff Burr

Actors: Jim Metzler, Belinda Montgomery, Taylor Locke, John Patrick White, …

Category: Horror

29 July 200215 January 2026 by Roog

Alien Arsenal (1999)

Rating: ★★

Dec 8, 2000Power-Suit Superhero Kids

A banal David De Coteau directed kid's film about two teens who find an arsenal of alien equipment and put the suits on to become superheroes

Director: David DeCoteau

Actors: Chris Olivero, Riley Smith, William Vogt, Robert Donavan, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 December 200011 November 2025 by Roog

Vlad the Impaler (2000)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2002The Historical Dracula

A film based on the historic tyrant that gave the world the name Dracula. This ends up being too sympathetic and loses all credibility when it tries to tie in vampire mythology

Director: Joe Chappelle

Actors: Rudolf Martin, Jane March, Peter Weller, Roger Daltrey, …

Category: Horror

6 December 200212 May 2026 by Roog

The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)

Rating: ★★

Sep 24, 2000Haunted House/Found Footage

A blatant copy of The Blair Witch Project with a group of people armed with video cameras investigating a haunted house

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Category: Horror

24 September 20006 December 2024 by Roog

They Nest (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 14, 2019Killer Roaches

Hordes of killer roaches overrun an island. A reasonable and not too bad run through of the formula of the bugs on the attack film that comes with the benefit of some convincing effects

Director: Ellory Elkayem

Actors: Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage, Kristen Dalton, …

Category: Horror

14 March 201919 March 2026 by Roog