Lord of Illusions (1995): The great lost Clive Barker film (if lost means, "nearly ignored by everyone") merrily mixing Barker's usual pain/pleasure/pointy things in people are awesome shtick with tropes of the hardboiled detective tale. Pleasantly slow-going, sometimes a little silly with its capital-E EVIL, but still a fine film full of honored character actors - and Scott Bakula, but oh well.
Stardust (2007): Matthew Vaughn's Stardust hollywoodizes Neil Gaiman's novel somewhat fiercely, yet as charming, funny Hollywood fantasy romances go, it is still a successful film by virtue of often actually being charming and funny and most definitely a romance. In addition to the expected big set-pieces, Vaughn's direction also shows a pleasant affinity for the importance of smaller gestures.
Home Movie (2008): Another fake found footage horror film. This time around, we are watching the home movie's of a small family living "deep in the woods" with two kids growing steadily creepier. The plot unfortunately hinges on the viewer's ability to ignore the fact that a reverend and a child psychiatrist really should be able to be a little bit more decisive and competent when it comes to diagnosing their children as completely fucked up. Honestly, they don't talk, they don't smile, they don't laugh, they make sandwiches out of their goldfish! I couldn't bring myself to put my brain this deep into hibernation, so the whole film fell flat on its face early and often, never to recover. Adrian Pasdar's highly annoying performance as the even more annoying reverend and dad didn't help much.
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