Gor (1987)
Aug 20, 2005Barbarian Planet
Cannon Films adaptation of John Norman's series of books. The books come with heavy BDSM content but this is a planetary adventure about a professor transported to become a hero on a barbarian planet
Arnold Vosloo
Hard Target (1993)
Apr 4, 2000Human Hunting for Sport/Action
John Woo made his US debut with this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle, which is essentially an urban version of The Most Dangerous Game. Woo’s stylised action set-ups give a slight script a dynamism that blows his contemporaries away
Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995)
Sep 3, 2005Disfigured Avenging Superhero
The first of two video-released sequels to Sam Raimi's Darkman now starring Arnold Vosloo in the title role. This also brings back Larry Drake as the villain Durant
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
Jun 15, 2008Disfigured Avenging Superhero
This was the second and better of the two video-released sequels to Sam Raimi's Darkman starring Arnold Vosloo in the title role. This adds a much more interestingly complex plot to the mix
Progeny (1998)
Oct 25, 2018Alien Abduction and Impregnation
Horror director Brian Yuzna jumps aboard the alien abduction and impregnation theme that was popular at the time thanks to tv’s The X Files. All of Yuzna’s films have a fascination with sexual perversity so here the emphasis is placed on the impregnation
The Mummy (1999)
May 11, 1999Revived Mummy/Adventure
Nominal remake of the Boris Karloff The Mummy, which has now been inflated into a big budget Indiana Jones adventure. Stephen Sommers lets the film overspill with CGI spectacle but the exercise is deflated by a jokey, unserious attitude
The Mummy Returns (2001)
May 6, 2001Revived Mummy/Adventure
Sequel to the 1999 The Mummy. Here Stephen Sommers amplifies everything in that film by a factor of ten where the constant bombardment by the spectacular reaches an point of absurd overkill
Agent Cody Banks (2003)
Oct 9, 2003Teenage Spy Comedy
Another of the spy parodies that emerged following Austin Powers. Frankie Muniz is a high school teenager who is recruited as a spy. This proves a mildly amusing set-up that is delivered with surprisingly little wit
Fire & Ice (2008)
Nov 21, 2014Epic Dragon Fantasy
Unassumingly well-made venture into the epic fantasy genre from Pitof, director of Catwoman. A slim story played with conviction and some particularly good dragon effects
Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2008)
Mar 19, 2025Greek Myth Adventure
Supposedly an adventure based on an untold story from The Odyssey, an entry among the fantasy adventure films made for cable filler in the 2000s
G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)
Aug 25, 2009Futuristic Military Action Team
Stephen Sommers make a film based on the popular action toy line. Barring one exhilarating sequence in the middle, this consists of lots of sound and CGI fury amounting to very little at all
All-Star Superman (2011)
Jul 23, 2012Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
Another of the DC animated films, based on a work that reinterpreted Superman. This is somewhat bitsy in condensing a 12-issue series to a 73-minute film but holds some moments of great writing
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)
Oct 15, 2013Animation/Tales of the Green Lantern Corps
Animated film that tells different stories of various members of the Green Lantern Corps (including two stories from Alan Moore). Another of the worthwhile animated DC adaptations
Odd Thomas (2013)
Nov 10, 2013Eccentric Clairvoyant-Medium/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation
At first glance, Stephen Sommers and Dean R. Koontz seem strange bedfellows, but oddly enough it works – Koontz gives Sommers more story than he is used to working with and surprisingly it is the likeable characters and mind-boggling quirks of plot at the forefront rather than Sommers' usual CGI bombast
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Mar 27, 2013Futuristic Military Action Team
You can't complain that this is not exactly what you expect it to be – two hours of cartoonish action during which the brain singularly fails to engage. This is less unapologetic about being a military fantasy than the first film
Shark Killer (2015)
Jan 30, 2025Killer Shark
This is one killer shark film of the 2010s that does not come in a deliberately ridiculous vein and concerns the hunt for a shark that has swallowed a valuable diamond