Sneakers (1992)
Jun 22, 1999Hi-Tech Thriller
Standout thriller set around the world of computing, one of the earliest techno-thriller to adapt to the new internet age
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Diabolique (1996)
Feb 17, 2003Les Diaboliques English-Language Remake
Les Diaboliques is one of the great all-time thrillers. This remake, designed to highlight a post-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone, is an abortion that rewrites the classic twist ending for something upbeat
Blade (1998)
Apr 18, 1999Comic-Book Vampire Hunter
Nobody knew it at the time but this was the beginning of the huge surge of Marvel Comics adaptations on screen in the 00s/10s. This distills the basics of the vampire hunter comic-book down into a smart, kinetic action film
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Feb 4, 2001Near Future Fleapit Hotel Murder Mystery
Wim Wenders film from a story idea by U2's Bono set around the down-and-outs at a fleapit hotel slightly into the future. The film circles around a cast of eccentrics without ever really coming together
Just Like Heaven (2005)
Jan 27, 2006Ghost Romantic Comedy
An odd light fantasy romcom where Mark Ruffalo is suddenly haunted by the ghost of Reese Witherspoon as she lies in a comatose state on life support
Zodiac (2007)
May 27, 2007True Life Serial Killer
David Fincher's gripping investigation into the unsolved true-life Zodiac Killer case. Fincher's stagings are exacting and the mystery he builds intensely absorbing
Ghost Rider (2007)
Mar 26, 2007Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero
Film adaptation of Marvel Comics' demon superhero emerges as better than it had the right to be. The risibility of the image of a motorcycle-riding demon hero is made to work through some vivid and way-out effects
Max Payne (2008)
Oct 19, 2008Videogame Adaptation/Vigilante Cop
Based on the popular videogame, this is fairly much Death Wish by way of Jacob's Ladder and proves an underwhelming delivery of its promise
The Lodger (2009)
Dec 13, 2010Modern-Day Jack the Ripper Killings
Fourth version of the tale about a family who believe their boarder might be Jack the Ripper. This is updated to the present and abandons most of the story for a mind-bending pretzel of identity speculations
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Jul 31, 2010Teenager Can See the Dead
A banal Zac Efron starring attempt to rewrite The Sixth Sense for the mopily sensitive teenage Gothic Chick Lit audience weaned on Twilight with Efron as a cemetery groundskeeper who talks to the dead
Shark Night 3D (2011)
Sep 24, 2011Killer Shark Film
Ignore the bad reviews, this is a film that is determined not to take itself seriously and keeps piling on the absurdities until it enters into the realm of the entertainingly preposterous
Silent Night (2012)
Dec 25, 2012Christmas Slasher Film/Psycho Santa
This is a very loose and somewhat desultory remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night that seems to imagine it is being far more hardcore and controversy defying than it is
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
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Dec 31, 2021Videogame Adaptation/Zombies and Mutations
A reboot of the Resident Evil film series under a new director with Johannes Roberts who abandons the previous action poses for a far darker and more visceral survival horror approach