Animalympics (1979)
Jul 9, 1999Animation/Talking Animal Olympics
From the director of Tron, an animated film produced to commemorate the 1980 Olympics, a series of skits with various talking animals participating in different Olympic sports
Harry Shearer
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.
Small Soldiers (1998)
Nov 5, 1999War Between Toys
Joe Dante had great success in the 1980s but his star started to pale into the 90s. Here he has resorted to a rehash of his biggest hit Gremlins, seemingly conceptually slung together with Toy Storyconcerning an army of malevolent toy soldiers come to life
Godzilla (1998)
Jul 16, 1999Giant Atomic Monster
Much disliked English-language version of Godzilla from Roland Emmerich is a more watchable film than one might think. Emmerich does well when the film allows him to do what he does best - being a big, budget, massively scaled epic of mass destruction
The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Jul 31, 2007The Simpsons Film Spinoff
Film spinoff from the long-running animated tv series. The familiar gags are there but show feels awkward extruded out to a full-length plot. You keep feeling the film should have been more than it is.