North (1994)
Dec 26, 1999Fabulist Adventure
Likeable absurdist fable from Rob Reiner with Elijah Wood as a boy searching the world for perfect parents. With Bruce Willis as the Easter Bunny
Graham Greene
The Green Mile (1999)
Dec 24, 1999Miracle-Healing Death Row Inmate/Stephen King Addaptation
Frank Darabont had a hit with the Stephen King adaptation The Shawshank Redemption. Here he makes another King adaptation about a Death Row inmate with healing powers
A Lobster Tale (2006)
Jan 17, 2010Magical Realism/Miracle Healing Moss
Set in a nowhere New England town where fisherman Colm Meaney discovers a moss with miracle-healing properties. Sort of a Magical Realist version of The Shipping News
New Moon (2009)
Nov 30, 2009Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance
The second of the Twilight films where the moderately grounded original is blown up into the near laughable with the ridiculously over-the-top hyper-sexualised posturing of its male leads
Atlantic Rim (2013)
Aug 5, 2015Asylum Mockbuster/Giant Robots vs Giant Monsters
When Guillermo Del Toro made Pacific Rim, The Asylum conducted their own copy simply by switching US seaboards. While not exactly Oscar quality, this is one of The Asylum's better mockbusters
Winter’s Tale (2014)
Feb 15, 2014Urban Fantasy/Romance/Fate and Miracles
Akiva Goldsman, a screenwriter who has laid a trail of devastation through the genre, attempts to film a classic fantasy novel that has aptly described as unfilmable, resulting in a curtailed story that works in individual scenes but is mostly a spawling patchwork of fantasy elements and a romance that never seems to spark
The Shack (2017)
May 29, 2017Man Invited to a Meeting with God
This comes with a fantastic conceptual hook "Man is invited to a meeting with God at a hut in the woods". Alas, what we get is no more than a work of faith-based cinema that drowns in its feelgood Christianity Lite sentiments and appeal to Middle American wholesomeness
Astronaut (2019)
Aug 9, 2019Senior Pursues a Dream to Go Into Space
Space movies were big following successes like Gravity and The Martian. At complete contrast, this is a genteel laidback film with Richard Dreyfuss as a senior obsessed with boarding a spaceflight
Antlers (2021)
Dec 26, 2021Wendigo Creature
A wendigo film, this comes with impressive prospect and backed by no less names than Guillermo Del Toro and David S. Goyer