The Net (1995)
Oct 31, 2001Cyber-Thriller
Film that tried to jump aboard the newly arrived paradigm of the internet but is mostly a cliched thriller about Sandra Bullock trying to recover her erased identity
Jeremy Northam
Mimic (1997)
Jun 15, 1999Evolved Insects
This was the second film from Guillermo Del Toro, a modest and quite good Alien copy with Mira Sorvino hunting evolved insects in the New York subway tunnels
Cypher (2002)
Dec 16, 2003Brainwashing Reality Bender
Vincenzo Natali's second film, a cool and superbly disquiet thriller about corporate brainwashing and espionage that comes with a series of Philip K. Dick-ian reality bending twists
The Singing Detective (2003)
Nov 8, 2005Detective Story Daydreams
Disastrous Hollywood version of Dennis Potter's classic tv mini-series where a hospitalised Robert Downey jr fantasises a dream world of 1940s film noir
The Invasion (2007)
Sep 9, 2007Invasion of the Body Snatchers Remake
Fourth film version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers that badly miscues many key scenes and is missing the paranoid mood of the original(s)
Dean Spanley (2008)
Mar 11, 2009Man's Previous Life as a Dog
Adaptation of a Lord Dunsany story, this has an appealingly eccentricity – a film told as a series of after dinner conversations about a man recalling his past life as a dog – that works with winning charms