Soul Survivors (2001)
Sep 9, 2001Haunting
This is essentially The Sixth Sense rehashed as a teen horror film and conducted without any finesse - here you can see the twist ending coming miles in advance
Casey Affleck
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Nov 17, 2010Psycho Deputy
Disappointing adaptation of a classic noir novel where neither Michael Winterbottom nor a blank Casey Affleck do much to get inside the noirish mood or the troubled central character of a psychopathic sheriff's deputy
ParaNorman (2012)
Aug 16, 2012Stop-Motion Animated Children's Film/Kid Sees Dead People
Stop-motion animated children's film from Laika that demonstrates a willingness to be scary. The film starts to move out of the amiably likeable after around the halfway point when it begins to play a number of horror tropes against expectation to deliver a reasonable message about fear and prejudice
Interstellar (2014)
Nov 8, 2014Space Expedition
This could be Christopher Nolan's 2001: A Space Odyssey. But where Kubrick was cold and oblique, this is a 2001 with a heart. A pleasure to see a film rooted in credible science and dealing with high concept SF
A Ghost Story (2017)
Sep 30, 2017Man Becomes a Ghost
A ghost story in which the ghost is played by someone beneath a sheet with two eyeholes. It's an idea that seems too goofy to work outside of an episode of Scooby Doo. I do like being proved wrong and this ended up my Best Film of 2017
Light of My Life (2019)
Aug 16, 2019The Aftermath of a Plague That Has Killed All Women
Casey Affleck directs, writes and stars in a surprisingly good film - a small, intimate tale of survival set in a world where a pandemic has wiped out all women but one man's daughter
Slingshot (2024)
Nov 22, 2024Space Expedition/Onboard Paranoia
Quite a good film about a space expedition where the crew members on a mission to Saturn fall into an increasing paranoia and inability to tell what is real due to the drugs used in the hypersleep process