Heart and Souls (1993)
Nov 3, 1999Disembodied Souls Comedy
Likeable light fantasy comedy where Robert Downey Jr is possessed by four disembodies souls and sets out to help them achieve their purpose. Filled with some great performances.
Alfre Woodard
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Mar 18, 2002Time Travel/Cyborg Gestalt
The second of the Star Trek: The Next Generation films where series regular Jonathan Frakes takes the director's chair and delivers an exciting adventure, showing an excellent hand with the special effects. Far more satisfying than the previous film
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997)
Jun 28, 2002Animation/Talking Appliances
The first of two Brave Little Toaster sequels, this plays more along the lines of a regular animated film formula but has its charms
Dinosaur (2000)
May 22, 2000Disney Animation/Talking Dinosaurs
The first full computer animated film from Disney. It feels like someone decided to give the Jurassic Park dinosaurs their own film, mixed up with the plot of The Land Before Time
Lost Souls (2000)
Oct 13, 2000Demonic Possession
Steven Spielberg's regular cinematographer Janusz Kaminski takes the director's chair and conducts a modest and effective revival of the 1970s occult/Anti-Christ film
K-PAX (2001)
Oct 26, 2001Alien Visitor in a Psychiatric Institution
Kevin Spacey is a mysterious patient in a psychiatric institution who makes possibly true claims to be an alien. An uncredited ripoff of the far superior Man Facing Southeast
The Singing Detective (2003)
Nov 8, 2005Detective Story Daydreams
Disastrous Hollywood version of Dennis Potter's classic tv mini-series where a hospitalised Robert Downey jr fantasises a dream world of 1940s film noir
The Core (2003)
Jun 9, 2003Journey to the Centre of the Earth
A CGI disaster film about a journey to the centre of the Earth to restart the magnetic core. This is a film construed as no more than a series of spectacular self-contained disaster set-pieces, often irrespective of any of them making sense
The Forgotten (2004)
Nov 8, 2004Erased Memories
Julianne Moore discovers her late son has been erased from photos and people's memories eventually leading her to an explanation involving mysterious aliens
Annabelle (2014)
Oct 17, 2014Sinister Doll
Someone had the bright idea to make a film centred around the creepy doll that appears in the wraparound scenes of The Conjuring. But without James Wan as director, everything disappears into formulaic scares
Captain America: Civil War (2016)
May 14, 2016War Between Comic-Book Superheroes
Less Captain America 3 than The Avengers 3 – the entire film has been conceived as a massive superheroic punch-up. The results move with an exhilarating pace, but the Russo Brothers haven't yet mastered Joss Whedon's hand with character humour
The Lion King (2019)
Oct 19, 2019Disney Live-Action Remake/Talking Animals
Jon Favreau had success recreating The Jungle Book in live-action with CGI animals and does the same with The Lion King - only to produce an exacting, lifeless replication missing the charms of the original
Salem’s Lot (2024)
Oct 11, 2024Town of Vampires
The Stephen King novel about a small town that is invaded by a vampire and is population taken gets its third screen adaptation in this film treatment. The 1979 mini-series is still the best version