15 Minutes (2001)
Mar 9, 2001Media-Obsessed Psychos
Thriller about two killers who become inspired by tabloid tv and decide to sell tapes of their crimes to tv. This becomes a heavy-handed, tub-beating rant of disgust against modern media
Karel Roden
Blade II (2002)
Jul 29, 2002Comic-Book Vampire Hunter
Blade was a solid vampire/action film but the sequel is a quantum leap over that, a visually kinetic and immensely exciting comic-book of a movie thanks to the employment of Guillermo Del Toro in the director’s chair
Bulletproof Monk (2003)
Aug 20, 2003Martial Arts Fantasy
Painfully derivative US-made attempt to jump aboard the popularity of Wu Xia following The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. There are talented people involved who should have known better
Hellboy (2004)
Jul 5, 2004Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
The first of Guillermo Del Toro's adaptations of Mike Mignola's comic-book about a demon superhero. Not as good as the sequel, the film's ace in the hole is Ron Perlman in the title role
Bathory (2008)
Aug 8, 2011Historical Countess Bathory Story
Lushly made retelling of the Countess Bathory story, one that tries to make an interesting if historically questionable case that she was kind to servants and a misunderstood victim
Orphan (2009)
Sep 12, 2009Evil Child
Another variant on the evil child film featuring a maliciously psychopathic Isabelle Fuhrman