TriStar Pictures Archives

Runaway (1984)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 30, 2001Police Amok-Robot Squad

Michael Crichton's books and films are always run through with a fear of technology run amok. Here Crichton makes an enjoyably straightforward directorial outing about a police squad set up to stop runaway robots,

Director: Michael Crichton

Actors: Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Cynthia Rhodes, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 July 20017 December 2022 by Roog

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Rating: ★★

Feb 27, 2003Muppet Movie

The third Muppets film, the last Jim Henson would be involved with, this shows them putting on a Broadway show

Director: Frank Oz

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Art Carney, James Coco, John Landis, …

Category: Fantasy

27 February 200313 January 2025 by Roog

Real Genius (1985)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 27, 2000Hi-Tech University Hijinks

Highly enjoyable comedy set among the hi-tech hijinks of a group of university science geeks. Val Kilmer owns the show in his second screen performance

Director: Martha Coolidge

Actors: Gabe Jarret, Val Kilmer, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 April 200023 December 2021 by Roog

The Last Dragon (1985)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 15, 2007Gonzo Martial Arts/Disco Film

A completely insane film that reads as a disco version of The Karate Kid via the 1970s Blaxploitation fad with the addition of mystical martial arts and played so over-the-top it defies belief

Director: Michael Schultz

Actors: Taimak, Vanity

Category: Fantasy

15 December 20072 July 2026 by Roog

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Rating: ★★

Dec 13, 2002Alien Slugs/Resurrection of the Dead/Genre Homage

Alien body snatchers comedy that feels less like a film than an extended fanboy in-joke

Director: Fred Dekker

Actors: Tom Atkins, Jason Lively, Jill Whitlow

Category: Science Fiction

13 December 200219 January 2025 by Roog

Chances Are (1989)

Rating: ★

Jan 11, 2003Reincarnation Romantic Comedy

From the director of the hit Dirty Dancing, an inane romantic comedy in which Cybill Shepard thinks her daughter's boyfriend Robert Downey Jr is her reincarnated husband

Director: Emile Ardolino

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal, Mary Stuart Masterson, …

Category: Fantasy

11 January 200312 April 2020 by Roog

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 1, 2003Gonzo Caper Comedy

Madcap slapstick caper comedy with Bruce Willis as a cat burglar. This was a massive box-office flop at the time but remains a lunatically out-of-control mess that is frequently hilarious

Director: Michael Lehmann

Actors: Bruce Willis, Andie McDowell, Danny Aiello, Richard E. Grant, …

Category: Fantasy

1 April 20038 April 2026 by Roog

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

Rating: ★★

May 8, 2000Frankenstein Adaptation

An adaptation of Frankenstein made as companion piece to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Kenneth Branagh creates a lush production but the attempts to emulate Coppola's sensuality go awry

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, …

Category: Horror

8 May 20008 July 2026 by Roog

Hideaway (1995)

Rating: ★

Apr 17, 2001Psychic Link with a Serial Killer

A Dean R. Koontz adaptation from the director of The Lawnmower Man, this is a numbingly predictable film in which Jeff Goldblum returns from the dead to find he has a psychic link with a serial killer

Director: Brett Leonard

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy Sisto, Christine Lahti, …

Category: Horror

17 April 200115 March 2026 by Roog

The Fan (1996)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 20, 2003Psycho Sports Celebrity Stalker

A dense, visually afire film from the great Tony Scott starring Robert De Niro as a sports fan who snaps from the pressures of ordinary life and then stalks baseball star Wesley Snipes

Director: Tony Scott

Actors: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, …

Category: Horror

20 August 200314 February 2026 by Roog

Mary Reilly (1996)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 17, 2009Dr Jekyll's Maid

This took a critical drubbing where it came out, especially Julia Roberts’ Irish accent but is a revisionist take on the Jekyll/Hyde story told through the eyes of Dr Jekyll's maid and an extremely good version of the story

Director: Stephen Frears

Actors: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Glenn Close, …

Category: Horror

17 July 200929 August 2026 by Roog

Starship Troopers (1997)

Rating: ★

Jul 29, 2010War with Aliens

A travesty of Robert Heinlein's classic SF novel from Paul Verhoeven. Heinlein's philosophical argument for militarism is junked in favour of blackly comic mindless violence

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Patrick Muldoon, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 July 201013 September 2026 by Roog

Hush (1998)

Rating: ★

Nov 18, 2007Psycho Mother-in-Law

Histrionic thriller that reminds of the various copies of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in which pregnant Gwyneth Paltrow has evil mother-in-law Jessica Lange trying to steal her baby

Director: Jonathan Darby

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Lange, Johnathon Schaech, Nina Foch, …

Category: Horror

18 November 200713 December 2024 by Roog

Baby Geniuses (1999)

Rating: ★

Apr 1, 1999Intelligent Baby Conspiracy

Film set around the premise that babies are secretly geniuses and talk in their own language. This makes a beeline for pee and poop jokes and seems to think we should applaud it for the cutsieness of seeing babies doing adult things

Director: Bob Clark

Actors: Kim Cattrall, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Peter MacNicol, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 April 199924 November 2025 by Roog

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2003)

Rating: ★★

Jun 19, 2005War with Aliens/Alien Body Snatchers

A passable video-released sequel to Starship Troopers the heads more in the direction of a body snatchers film. Directed by stop-motion animator Phil Tippett

Director: Phil Tippett

Actors: Richard Burgi, Ed Lauter, Ed Quinn, Lawrence Monoson, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 June 200513 September 2026 by Roog