Bad Influence (1990)
May 26, 2000Deadly Friend Psycho-Thriller
Fine Curtis Hanson psycho-thriller in which dull yuppie James Spader befriends charismatic psychopath Rob Lowe and is drawn into a series of taunting psychological games
Rob Lowe
If the Shoe Fits (1990)
May 12, 2004Modernised Cinderella
A modernised retelling of the Cinderella story that is set in the Paris fashion world starring with Jennifer Grey as a lowly seamstress falling for self-important fashion designer Rob Lowe
The Dark Backward (1991)
Feb 19, 2015Gonzo Comedy/Man Grows a Third Arm
A really strange comedy with Judd Nelson as a socially inept man who tries to make it as a stand-up comedy act after growing a third arm out of his back. Audiences scratched their heads and the film bombed
The Stand (1994)
Jul 1, 2019Showdown Between the Forces of Good and Evil After the Collapse of Civilisation/Stephen King Adaptation
The Stand is regarded as Stephen King's best novel, an epic that depicts the final showdown between good and evil in the aftermath of civilisation. The mini-series adaptation was alas placed into the ham fists of one of King's worst adapters. Mick Garris
Hostile Intent (1997)
May 12, 2004Backwoods Brutality
An oddity that seems to start as a film about IT espionage and then becomes a survival horror with a paintball team on a corporate retreat being hunted through the woods
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Jun 14, 1999Spy Movie Spoof
The second of the Austin Powers films is less sharp in its parody of the James Bond film and more focused on a series of broad scatological gags. Mike Myers owns the show in a trio of entertainingly gregarious performances
The Specials (2000)
Jan 26, 2026Superhero Parody
An obscure parody about a team of inept and dysfunctional superheroes that was one of the earliest works from a then unknown James Gunn (who not only writes but stars as one of the superheroes)
‘Salem’s Lot (2004)
Jul 11, 2007Town of Vampires/Stephen King Adaptation
TV mini-series remake of the Stephen King novel, this fails to hold a candle to the earlier 1979 version
Stir of Echoes: The Awakening (2007)
Feb 23, 2011Gulf War Vet Receives Visions
Stir of Echoes was a spookily effective film. Alas in this sequel, we go from Kevin Bacon as a medium to Rob Lowe as a haunted Iraq War veteran amid a series of routine pop-up scares
The Invention of Lying (2009)
Nov 2, 2009World Where Nobody Lies
A Ricky Gervais co-directed/starring comedy that is set in an alternate world where everybody tells the truth and he discovers he is the one person who can lie and how this proceeds to change the world
Monster Trucks (2016)
Apr 8, 2017Creatures Inhabit Vehicles
You can almost see the process that went off in the scriptwriters head "What if we had Monster Truck rallies where the trucks were actual monsters?". You are surprised that the film is not based on a toy line. The result proves to be way more entertaining than you ever expect it to be
The Bad Seed (2018)
Aug 18, 2019Psychopathic Young Girl
The 1956 The Bad Seed is the original evil child film. All other psycho children films draw themselves from here. This is a remake directed by actor Rob Lowe who also plays the father. McKenna Grace gives a superbly chill performance as the child