The Minus Man (1999)
Oct 12, 1999Genteel Serial Killer
Standout film featuring Owen Wilson as a genteel serial killer
Dennis Haysbert
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Jun 16, 1999Virtual Reality
A Roland Emmerich produced Virtual Reality film that toys with some ideas that almost make it a great SF film before cliches and a bad twist ending take over
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
Jul 4, 2003Arabian Nights Adventure/Animation
DreamWorks animated Sinbad adventure by the numbers that seems to go out of its way to tell a Sinbad story divorced of its Islamic cultural background
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Jun 16, 2011Animation/Talking Animal Martial Arts
Sequel to DreamWorks hit animated film, this does little more than repeat its predecessor. The detail and texture is amplified to a work of art, although you cannot help but wonder if the under tens care about this
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Oct 31, 2012Disney Animation/The Secret Lives of Videogame Characters
One of the best Disney animated films in ages. Has the winning concept of the secret lives of the characters inside videogames. Imagine Tron by way of Toy Story. The animators have clever fun with the idea, while the film creates a character arc that become the strength of the film
Battledogs (2013)
Aug 25, 2021Werewolf Film
A halfway reasonable film from The Asylum with the military trying to appropriate werewolves for weapons purposes. A good premise despite so-so-effects work
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Aug 23, 2014Graphic Novel Adaptation/Ultra-Violent Film Noir Tales
Robert Rodriguez makes his return to Frank Miller's classic film noir-styled graphic novels. You keep expecting this to hit in with the astonishing freshness the first film did. Rodriguez and Miller give us more of the same amazing visuals but there is the feeling it is no longer original and new
Ted 2 (2015)
Jun 27, 2015Foul-Mouthed Teddy Bear
Whether you loved or hated the crude and raucous, un-PC stoner/fratboy humour of Ted, Seth MacFarlane is back with exactly the same mix here. This manages to be offensive in an amiably inoffensive, even occasionally quite funny, way
Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
Jul 26, 2023Zombie Film/Videogame Adaptation
Dead Rising was another zombie survival horror videogame from the creators of Resident Evil. Although nowhere near the popularity of the Milla Jovovich films, this was the first of two films based on the game
The Dark Tower (2017)
Oct 21, 2017Stephen King Adaptation/Portal to a Parallel World
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman gives us an utterly mangled version of Stephen King's Dark Tower series that has little resemblance to the books, yet makes little sense if you haven't read them
Naked (2017)
Sep 4, 2017Timeloop Comedy
Comedic variant on Groundhog Day where Marlon Wayans wakes up naked in an elevator on his wedding day and is forced to repeat the same hour over and over as he tries to get to the church
Send Help (2026)
Apr 3, 2026Desert Island Castaway Horrors
Sam Raimi returns with a desert island drama but things soon get twisted. Think Cast Away by way of Misery – but where Annie Wilkes gets to be the sympathetic heroine