The Love Bug (1997)
Jan 1, 2010Cute Car/Disney Comedy
TV movie revival of Disney's Herbie films and one of the better sequels, playing around with the concept and even adding a Herbie origin story
John Hannah
Sliding Doors (1998)
May 31, 2010Alternate Life Pathways
Popular Gwyneth Paltrow hit that spawned a series of films that follow a woman's alternate life pathways
Resurrection Man (1998)
Nov 8, 2004Irish Killing Gang
Strong and effective film set against the backdrop of The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s depicting a gang of psychopaths that killed and tortured people on the streets
The Mummy (1999)
May 11, 1999Revived Mummy/Adventure
Nominal remake of the Boris Karloff The Mummy, which has now been inflated into a big budget Indiana Jones adventure. Stephen Sommers lets the film overspill with CGI spectacle but the exercise is deflated by a jokey, unserious attitude
The Mummy Returns (2001)
May 6, 2001Revived Mummy/Adventure
Sequel to the 1999 The Mummy. Here Stephen Sommers amplifies everything in that film by a factor of ten where the constant bombardment by the spectacular reaches an point of absurd overkill
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (2002)
Jun 24, 2007Evil Personality Within Unleashed
Excellent tv movie adaptation of the Jekyll/Hyde story starring John Hannah. This is mounted with exquisite period detail and brings new depths and interpretations of an oft-told tale
Cold Blood (2005-2006)
Sep 9, 2007Serial Killer Thriller
One of the best copies of The Silence of the Lambs, a British tv mini-series in which police must seek the help of imprisoned serial killer Matthew Kelly, who delivers a great performance in the role
The Last Legion (2007)
Dec 31, 2008Historical Adventure/Arthurian Origins
A not uninteresting historical epic from Dino de Laurentiis that merges the tale of the deposed last emperor of Rome into the beginnings of the Arthurian legends
Cold Blood: The Last Hurrah (2007)
May 4, 2008Serial Killer Thriller
The fifth and final of the Cold Blood films, brings Matthew Kelly's serial killer back but still lacks the gripping tension of the first two films
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Oct 9, 2008Revived Mummy/Chinese Adventure
The third of the Brendan Fraser Mummy films that feels like it has no point other than to steal $10 from your hand and give you a bucket of content free mental popcorn in return
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)
Aug 1, 2017Modernised Shakespeare Adaptation
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play about fairy enchantments by Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies. Davies goes with a standard interpretation alongside radical reinvention - Athens as a fascist dictatorship
Scorched Earth (2018)
Mar 12, 2018Post-Holocaust
This looked promising but is no more than an unoriginal rehash of the cliches of the Mad Max film - at heart a Western with only token effort made to rewrite the elements in SF terms - and no greater ambition beyond being cable filler
Genesis (2018)
Jan 14, 2019Post-Holocaust Survival/Android Self-Awareness
Apparently the first in a projected trilogy. The ambitiousness of this aside, the film only trades in unoriginal cliches of post-apocalyptic survival and android self-awareness