The Beastmaster (1982)
Jun 4, 1999Sword and Sorcery
Don Coscarelli, director of the culty Phantasm, made this as part of the early 1980s sword and sorcery fad with Marc Singer as a muscular hero who has the ability to communicate with animals
Rod Loomis
Jack’s Back (1988)
Apr 4, 2018Modern-Day Jack the Ripper Copycat
This comes with a fantastic pitch – it was released on the centenary of the Jack the Ripper killings and features a Ripper copycat operating in the present. Alas it becomes a massive wasted opportunity and soon abandons connection to the Ripper to become a wronged man on the run thriller
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Sep 6, 1999Time-Travelling Slackers
A quirky hit that jumped aboard the 1980s popularity of time travel themes and laid into them with an appealingly offbeat eccentricity. The film that propelled Keanu Reeves onto become a star
The Singularity is Near: A True Story About the Future (2010)
Apr 4, 2017Documentary/SF Story About Future Machine Evolution
Based on Ray Kurzweil's non-fiction book about the coming evolution of machine intelligence, this is an odd mix of documentary and SF, including a storyline to illustrate Kurzweil's main theses … The vision is an extraordinarily utopian one but one has just a few plausibility problems with it