Caveman (1981)
Sep 6, 2000Prehistoric Spoof
A comedy spoof of One Million Years B.C. and the whole sub-genre of caveman vs dinosaurs films This proves amiably goofy where Ringo Starr seems perfectly cast as the lead caveman
Dennis Quaid
The Right Stuff (1983)
Aug 26, 2002Story of the True Life Space Mission
Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program comes out halfway between admiration of the sheer ballsiness of the astronauts and buying into the flag-waving nationalism the Space Race represented.
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Dec 16, 2000Killer Shark
The second sequel to the hit killer shark film. This is shot with gimmick of the early 80s 3D revival fad but this has the effect of reducing Steven Spielberg's masterful suspense to a series of novelty pop-up shocks
Dreamscape (1984)
Jul 18, 2000Psychic Dream Therapists-Assassins
The original version of Inception almost, featuring psychics entering into people's dreams and then attempts to dream assassinate the US President. Despite much promise, the idea is prosaic in its handling
Enemy Mine (1985)
Sep 23, 2000Human-Alien Enemies Stranded on a Hostile Planet
SF film with Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr as human and alien who are enemies but are forced to cooperate to survive after crashlanding on a hostile alien planet
Innerspace (1987)
Nov 3, 2003Fantastic Voyage Spoof
Joe Dante pays homage to Fantastic Voyage, the classic film about a submarine journey through the human body. Here though Dante plays it as a screwball comedy but his in-joke heavy style failed to catch on with audiences
Wilder Napalm (1993)
Mar 24, 2003Pyrokinesis Comedy
Quirkily eccentric comedy written by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan about two feuding brothers with pyrokinetic abilities
DragonHeart (1996)
May 28, 2000Rogue and Dragon
This places an amusing spin on the standard dragon fantasy, having the dragon and its would-be slayer team up to fool the peasantry out of money. The Sean Connery-voiced dragon looks like a big CGI cartoon
Switchback (1997)
Jun 22, 1999Psycho-Thriller
Directorial debut from the Die Hard scriptwriter Jeb Stuart is a solid thriller but the film was a surprise flop despite bringing together an impressive cast
Frequency (2000)
Apr 30, 2000Cross-Time Radio Communication
Intelligent and well written film where freak weather conditions allow a son to communicate with his late father by radio across thirty years in time. Where the film starts to get interesting is when this creates unexpected changes in the present
Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Apr 19, 2007Southern Gothic Psycho-Thriller
Mike Figgis, the director of Leaving Las Vegas, visits the Backwoods Brutality genre in this Southern Gothic, but despite a top drawer cast, this never does more than stir lukewarm cliches
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Jun 1, 2004New Ice Age/Environmental Disaster Movie
In another of his big budget disaster spectacles, Roland Emmerich embraces environmental concerns about Global Warming. Here he (unscientifically) imagines the abrupt onset of a new Ice Age worldwide
G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)
Aug 25, 2009Futuristic Military Action Team
Stephen Sommers make a film based on the popular action toy line. Barring one exhilarating sequence in the middle, this consists of lots of sound and CGI fury amounting to very little at all
Pandorum (2009)
Jan 14, 2010Space Mission Gone Wrong
Rare cinematic treatment of the generation ship story that conducts it with a modest degree of affectiveness. Produced by Paul W.S. Anderson.
Horsemen (2009)
Feb 16, 2011Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller that brims with much Biblical imagery about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and passes through assorted increasingly improbable twists without much affect
Legion (2010)
Dec 31, 2010War Between Angels
An absurd film where angels conduct a war on Earth amid much gunfire and creature effects
Strange World (2022)
Dec 30, 2022Disney Animation/Lost World Adventure
Disney’s 61st animated film. A lost world adventure that emerges as Fantastic Voyage by way of Avatar
The Substance (2024)
Oct 25, 2024Rejuvenation Serum/Alternate Youthful Self
An absurdly over-the-top film where aging Demi Moore takes a serum that turns her into a youthful Margaret Qualley
War Machine (2026)
Mar 20, 2026Military Action/Killer Robot
The military action film is a genre that does nothing for me. But this does have a furious, survival-oriented pace as it pits Alan Ritchson and a detachment of soldiery up against an alien killer robot