Turistas (2006)
Feb 23, 2008Organ Harvesting of Tourists
A blatant copy of Hostel about tourists in Brazil being abducted into an organ harvesting scheme. Director John Stockwell seems distracted by filming diving scenes
Josh Duhamel
Transformers (2007)
Jul 3, 2007Live-Action Transformer Robots
Michael Bay takes on the 1980s toy phenomenon, turning it into a massive blockbuster filled with copious mass destruction and machines beating the metal crap out of each other
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Jun 30, 2009Live-Action Transformer Robots
The first of Michael Bay's Transformers sequels has even better effects and more copious mass destruction to the point it washes over you without any effect
When in Rome (2010)
Apr 17, 2014Romantic Comedy/Fountain of Love
Agonisingly awful romantic comedy about a Fountain of Love. The plot is utterly vapid, its resolution never in the slightest doubt, while director Mark Steven (Daredevil, Ghost Rider) Johnson sets the entire film up around a series of painfully unfunny slapstick routines
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Jun 30, 2011Live-Action Transformer Robots
The third of Michael Bay's Transformers films. While the human scenes opt for a ghastly miscalculated sense of humour, the effects houses are at the peak of their game, even if Bay allows them to drag the mass destruction out to a numbing excess
Movie 43 (2013)
Nov 8, 2013Anthology of Bad Taste Comedy Skits
An anthology of comedy skits that sets out to be in as bad taste as possible – you are left astounded how far a film has to go to offend in this post-South Park era. That and wondering if the producers had kidnapped some of the stars' family members to force them to participate
Safe Haven (2013)
Dec 4, 2013Romantic Film/Fantastic Twist Ending
Weepie romantic chick flick adapted from a Nicholas Sparks novel, included here for a fantastic twist ending. Sparks has stolen much of his plot from Stephen King's Rose Madder. Even as such, wife-beating as the backdrop to a romance casts a distasteful shadow over the exercise
11.22.63 (2016)
May 1, 2016Time Traveller Tries to Prevent the Assassination of JFK/Stephen King Adaptation
Stephen King adapted mini-series in which James Franco finds a mysterious door that leads back to 1960 and sets out to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Sep 23, 2017Live-Action Transformer Robots
The fifth of Michael Bay's Transformers films. This comes with more of an outright comedy focus than any of the other films where Bay seems to be second-guessing his critics and spoofing his own peccadilloes in quote marks, only to produce the silliest entry in the series yet
The Institute (2017)
Jun 9, 2017Sinister 19th Century Asylum/"True Story"
James Franco co-directs and stars as a sinister psychiatrist in a 19th Century asylum who subjects patients to drugs and mind control so they can play in elaborate orgies. Supposedly based on a true-life incident
Batman: The Long Halloween Part One (2021)
Jul 9, 2021Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
The first in a two-part adaptation of a classic Batman story, this shows great promise that lifts the DC Universe Original Animated Movies out of the comfortable middle ground they have been drifting through the last few years
Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two (2021)
Aug 6, 2021Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
The Long Halloween Part One was one of the best DC animated films in some time, now comes the concluding chapter, which alas fails to fulfill the promise that the first film showed
Night of the Animated Dead (2021)
May 15, 2023Animated Remake of Night of the Living Dead
A remake of the original zombie film Night of the Living Dead conducted in animation