The Other Me (2000)
Jan 1, 2010Kid and His Clone/Children's Film
Disney Channel film about a cloned kid. The result indifferently slung together and the basic premise dealt with in a hardly serious way
Alison Pill
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Aug 15, 2010Teenage Nerd Romance/Gonzo Superheroics
An Edgar Wright directed comic-book adaptation made in a bewildering restless visual style that feels like two different films happening at once, one a sweet nerd romance and the other a completely gonzo superhero film
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Jun 5, 2011Man Timeslips to 1920s Paris Comedy
Appealingly lightweight whimsy from Woody Allen in which Owen Wilson keeps timeslipping between the present and 1920s Paris to meet the artistic/literary greats
To Rome with Love (2012)
Jul 15, 2012Quartet of Rome-Set Comedy Tales
Another film amid Woody Allen's European renaissance, four tales all set around the gorgeously shot location of Rome. The stories are on the slight side and it is lesser Allen but there is great casting and moments where Allen is on good form
Snowpiercer (2013)
Jul 19, 2014Train Containing the Last Survivors of Humanity
One of the most original science-fiction films of recent years. Set aboard a train where the last survivors of humanity circle a frozen globe, this is less an action film than something like Runaway Train turned into a unique conceptual breakthrough story, all rent through with a fierce parable about social revolution
Cooties (2014)
Jul 7, 2017Zombie Schoolchildren Comedy
A very funny film about a horde of zombie schoolchildren. Co-written by Saw's Leigh Whannell, this has a great deal of fun deflating zombie cliches and is wittily on the ball in its characterisations of the teachers
Zoom (2015)
Dec 9, 2017Series of Nested Meta-Fictional Tales
This nominally tells three slice-of-life tales but in each the principal character is creating a book or film about one of the other characters. This becomes a meta-fiction of considerable cleverness as we see how the problems of one character end up reflected in the other character's story
Devs (2020)
May 2, 2020Computer That Can Predict the Future
Alex Garland directed-written tv mini-series that grasps at big ideas about the meaning of it all concerning a computer that can track every particle and predict past and future. This emerges as one of the finest SF work of the last few years
Trap (2024)
Sep 7, 2024Serial Killer Trapped at a Rock Concert
M. Night Shyamalan film with Josh Hartnett as a serial killer caught up in a police sting being held at a rock concert