Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Apr 2, 2006Psycho-Sexual Thriller
Sequel to Basic Instinct made fourteen years later. Sharon Stone vamps her way across the screen but the heated sexuality of the original has been watered down to a lukewarm whimper
David Morrissey
The Reaping (2007)
May 5, 2007Modern-Day Biblical Plagues
Reasonable budgeted film about a series of Biblical plagues being visited upon a rural Louisiana town. An interesting set up that flounders amid a confused script
The Water Horse (2007)
Jan 19, 2008Loch Ness Monster
Earnestly made family film from Walden Media in which a young boy finds an egg that grows into the Loch Ness Monster
Red Riding (2009)
Jan 31, 2017Hunt for a Serial Killer
Depending on how you saw this, this is either a UK tv mini-series or three separately released films. Taking place over a decade, the three stories have a common locale and overlapping characters in the story of the hunt for a serial killer and the battle against a corrupt police department in Yorkshire
U Be Dead (2009)
Nov 14, 2009True-Life Female Stalker
A British-made tv movie about a female stalker. What sets this above Fatal Attraction and the other copies is that it is based on a true story
The City & The City (2018)
Dec 7, 2018Two Cities That Inhabit the Same Geographic Space
The first of China Mieville's works to be adapted to the screen, a detective story set in two cities that exist in the same geographic space but where each act as their own country. This misses as much as it succeeds
Good Omens (2019)
Jun 14, 2019Biblical End Times/Antichrist Comedy
TV mini-series based on the Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel that spoofs The Omen and Biblical End Times prophecies. The series is very close to the book as though it didn't want to edit any precious gag
Dampyr (2022)
May 12, 2024Vampire Film/Comic-Book Adaptation
A comic-book adaptation about vampire wars in a modern East European war zone. A slick Underworld-styled vampire action film that has some interesting ideas going on inside it
The Long Shadow (2023)
Sep 29, 2024True-Life Serial Killer
An exhaustive and very accurately detailed tv mini-series based around the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer who targeted prostitutes in the north of England between 1975 and 1981
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