The Trial (1993)
Feb 22, 2005Bureaucratic Nightmare World/Kafka Adaptation
All-star adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel that gets a far better sense of the book's black ironies than the previous Orson Welles version
Douglas Hodge
The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Nov 13, 2013Cave Creatures
Neil Marshall's The Descent was a ferociously effective horror film that proved a sleeper success. This is an unnecessary sequel that only offers up a limited variation on the same jumps
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2014)
Sep 28, 2015Animation/The Wizard of Oz Sequel
Animated sequel to The Wizard of Oz that proved a charmless flop that misses the magic of the original by a mile. The familiar characters are run over with a gratingly modern sense of humour
Jonathan (2018)
Sep 20, 2020Two Brothers Living in the Same Body
A smart and intelligent SF film where two brothers both inhabit the same body and then both fall for the same woman. Great acting from Ansel Elgort in the titles role(s)
Gemini Man (2019)
Dec 7, 2019Assassin Fights a Clone of Himself
Ang Lee dips his feet into the action genre in a conceptually fascinating work where assassin Will Smith facies a younger clone of himself. Smith's performance and the effects used to de-age his double are top-notch
Joker (2019)
Dec 28, 2019Comic-Book Super-Villain
This origin story of Batman's Joker is less epic superheroics than a mundanely grounded work about one individual's rage against modern life and alienation that comes closest to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver