A couple of our more popular Seriously Random Lists in the past were lists that explored once popular actors and actresses who have seemingly fallen off the face of the Earth (or at least, no longer appear in movies with which we are familiar). People like Rene Russo or Paul Reiser, who were once ever-present, and then just vanished. Today, we're going to do the same with directors. It's more difficult with directors because they work behind the camera and, in many cases, weren't very familiar to begin with. But you knew their movies. Many of the directors below had considerable success before all but vanishing -- some of them still work, on TV or making Direct-to-dvd movies or movies no one has ever heard of. But the fall from their peak has been precipitous and, in some cases, mysterious.
10. Joe Dante
Signature Movies: Gremlins, Gremlins 2, The Howling, Twilight Zone: The Movie,...
10. Joe Dante
Signature Movies: Gremlins, Gremlins 2, The Howling, Twilight Zone: The Movie,...
- 4/18/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
After the beloved original series went off the air, fans have been hoping ever since to be reunited with the band of Reapers we came to love during the two seasons the show was on the air. Now they are getting their wish, with a movie that takes place five years after the series ending. Sadly, the reunion is not exactly what one hoped it would be.
At the very beginning, torn away from the Reapers usual setting by the destruction of Der Waffelhaus, as the Reapers discover the ruins you can’t help but notice a new face where an old one should be. Replacing Laura Harris in the role of Daisy Adair is Sarah Wynter, who takes a character that Laura Harris had managed to bring some real depth to, and proceeds to turn Daisy into a horrendous caricature of the spoiled, bratty Hollywood starlet.
You’re also...
At the very beginning, torn away from the Reapers usual setting by the destruction of Der Waffelhaus, as the Reapers discover the ruins you can’t help but notice a new face where an old one should be. Replacing Laura Harris in the role of Daisy Adair is Sarah Wynter, who takes a character that Laura Harris had managed to bring some real depth to, and proceeds to turn Daisy into a horrendous caricature of the spoiled, bratty Hollywood starlet.
You’re also...
- 4/28/2009
- by Eva Gausvik
- The Cinema Post
The quirky television series Dead Like Me had a loyal following who felt it went on to the afterlife way too soon when it was cancelled in 2004! It has been resurrected for a movie that takes place five years after the series ending with a story that should please fans. It is direct to DVD, available, and just as fun as the original. In the movie, the Reapers (the un-dead who haven.t .received their lights. and moved on) are charged with collecting the souls as people die. If it sounds grim, it is anything but! These Reapers - George Lass (Ellen Muth) Roxy (Jasmine Guy), Daisy (Sarah Wynter) and Mason (Callum Blue) - are able to move among...
- 3/23/2009
- by June L.
- Monsters and Critics
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Bittersweet. Wholly bittersweet. Dead Like Me: Life After Death presents fans of the original series with a quandary. What is Dead Like Me without Rube (Mandy Patinkin)?
The new Dead Like Me feature film, reprising the plot of the ill-fated television series, answers that question but in a way that most fans will find lacking. By most accounts, getting 70% of an original cast back together 5 years after it ended (quite abruptly, I might add) would seem like a dream come true. Did we notice Laura Harris, who played Daisy Adair, was replaced by Sarah Wynter? You bet your ass we did. Did we care as much? No. What really gets at us - eats at us - is the void left by Rube's absence. Sure, they play it off decently well in the story but you can't replace the grounding character of...
Bittersweet. Wholly bittersweet. Dead Like Me: Life After Death presents fans of the original series with a quandary. What is Dead Like Me without Rube (Mandy Patinkin)?
The new Dead Like Me feature film, reprising the plot of the ill-fated television series, answers that question but in a way that most fans will find lacking. By most accounts, getting 70% of an original cast back together 5 years after it ended (quite abruptly, I might add) would seem like a dream come true. Did we notice Laura Harris, who played Daisy Adair, was replaced by Sarah Wynter? You bet your ass we did. Did we care as much? No. What really gets at us - eats at us - is the void left by Rube's absence. Sure, they play it off decently well in the story but you can't replace the grounding character of...
- 2/23/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – Oscar madness has left the Round Up a little weary of high profile, award-bait movies. We need a break from the Oscars and what better way to do that than with a few titles that might have slipped through the cracks while everyone was singing “Jai Ho”.
Catch up with some of your favorite characters from the cult hit “Dead Like Me,” watch the latest in Warner Brothers’ direct-to-dvd horror series known as “Raw Feed,” and check out a documentary that I think everyone thought would make bigger waves than it did, Bill Maher’s “Religulous”.
All three of these titles were released on February 17th, 2009.
“Alien Raiders”
Photo credit: Warner Bros. The “Raw Feed” series of Warner Bros. horror releases has been relatively disappointing. There hasn’t been a single real gem, although you’ll find some hardcore fans of “Rest Stop” and “Otis”. To this critic, they’re almost all near-misses,...
Catch up with some of your favorite characters from the cult hit “Dead Like Me,” watch the latest in Warner Brothers’ direct-to-dvd horror series known as “Raw Feed,” and check out a documentary that I think everyone thought would make bigger waves than it did, Bill Maher’s “Religulous”.
All three of these titles were released on February 17th, 2009.
“Alien Raiders”
Photo credit: Warner Bros. The “Raw Feed” series of Warner Bros. horror releases has been relatively disappointing. There hasn’t been a single real gem, although you’ll find some hardcore fans of “Rest Stop” and “Otis”. To this critic, they’re almost all near-misses,...
- 2/22/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
by Ian Spelling Ellen Muth is dead again, and she couldn’t be happier about it. Muth starred on the creepy, cult-favorite series Dead Like Me. She played Georgia “George” Lass, a young woman who was killed by a wayward toilet seat, only to discover that she was a Reaper, as in Grim Reaper, a member of the undead tasked with plucking the souls of those about to die in the instant before they expire. George worked with several other Reapers – among them Daisy (Laura Harris), Mason (Callum Blue), and Roxy (Jasmine Guy) – and they all answered to their boss, Rube (Mandy Patinkin). The show vanished in 2004, after just two seasons, much to the dismay of its modest but intensely loyal fan base. That fan base lobbied hard for more and, after all this time, Dead Like Me returns as a made-for-dvd movie entitled Dead Like Me: Life After Death.
- 2/17/2009
- UGO TV
Dead Like Me was a comedy drama TV series that aired in Showtime from 2003 to 2004. The show had a creative and well developing story, humor, some drama , and very good acting that in my opinion had everything to be extended at least two or more seasons that unfortunately for many fans the series was cut short and unresolved leaving the fans expecting for more. Fortunately, aster 5 years of waiting all the uncertainties left in the series are going to be answer, well.. Not really, but at least Dead Like Me: Life After Death , a [...]...
- 2/17/2009
- by The Critic
- SmartCine.com
Back among the non-living Showtime canceled Dead Like Me back in 2004 after just two seasons, but five years later it’s been resurrected in straight-to-dvd movie form. MGM announced today that Dead Like Me: Life After Death will be released on February 17th, and it will again star Ellen Muth and Callum Blue. The characters of Joy, Roxy, and Daisy back as well, but Mandy Patinkin is gone, which is probably good news for everyone considering his behavior at his last job, Criminal Minds. Instead, there will be a new head reaper and the story takes off from there. Two writers/EPs from the series wrote the screenplay, but it looks like series creator Bryan Fuller (of the recently canceled Pushing Daisies) was not involved. A new complete series collection of Dead Like Me will also be released on February 17th. It will include both seasons and the new movie.
- 12/10/2008
- UGO TV
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