Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Oct 20, 2009Children vs Alien Invaders
A family film about a group of kids discovering alien invaders in their attic. A film that is largely construed around a series of slapstick set-pieces.
Austin Butler
The Intruders (2015)
Jun 26, 2017Possible Haunted House
The haunted house genre has become so overused t feels mined out of original moves. Despite a better cast line-up, this follows all the familiar paths, even if it arrives at a quite different ending
Yoga Hosers (2016)
Nov 26, 2016Slacker Comedy/Cloned Miniature Nazi Soldiers
Kevin Smith's follow-up to Tusk slides off the cliff somewhere between Johnny Depp's incredibly silly performance, a nemesis you can't take seriously and what largely becomes a vanity exercise in nepotism – Smith and Depp creating a vehicle to highlight their daughters
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Sep 14, 2019Zombie Comedy
Jim Jarmusch is one of the foremost American independent directors and here makes his first zombie comedy. The question is is what can he bring to a genre that has been in full-on self-parody mode since Shaun of the Dead
Dune Part Two (2024)
Apr 20, 2024Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah
The second part of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic SF novel Dune, this delves more deeply into the world of the Fremen, although starts to diverge more from the book