Brave New World (1998)
Aug 10, 2010Dystopian Future
TV movie adaptation that conducts a hatchet job on Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel where his vision of a conditioned class structure is turned into an allegory about a media-saturated world
Daniel Dae Kim
The Cave (2005)
Jul 3, 2007Cave Monsters
This big-budget film came out the same year as The Descent and is a very similar work about a cast of name explorers in a vast network of underground caves being hunted by monsters
The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Jun 15, 2008Virus from Space/Michael Crichton Adaptation
TV series remake of Michael Crichton's novel about the attempts to contain a viral outbreak from space. Crichton's story was a straightforward work, whereas the mini-series has been absurdly overburdened with other plots
Insurgent (2015)
Mar 21, 2015Young Adult Dystopian Future
Divergent, the first entry in this Young Adult dystopian series, a poor man's Hunger Games, failed the "I can't hold any suspension of disbelief" test. This offers more of the same, plus lots of random effects sequences
Allegiant (2016)
Mar 26, 2016Young Adult Dystopian Future
The Divergent series is a fundamentally implausible scenario for people that think horoscopes are a profound insight into human nature. This is the most interesting of the films and gives us an imaginative future world
Hellboy (2019)
Jul 19, 2019Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
Reboot of the Hellboy series promisingly comes from Neil Marshall but is also made by Millennium Films who have a habit of buying up previously successful properties and churning out cheaper spinoffs
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
Mar 13, 2021Disney Animation/Fantasy Quest
The 59th animated film from Disney emerges as a modest effort with a cross-Asian cultural focus that eventually builds a strong character arc
Stowaway (2021)
Apr 30, 2021Stowaway Aboard a Mars Mission
In the vein of realistically grounded space movies such as Gravity and The Martian, a solidly effective film concerning the crew of a Mars mission who discover a stowaway aboard