River’s Edge (1986)

River’s Edge (1986)
Rating: ★★★★
May 5, 2003Disaffected Teens/Disturbed Psychology
The rare example of a sociological horror film concerning a teenager who kills his girlfriend and how his peers seem unconcerned. Filled with great performances, this is a film with a chilling nihilism that puts its finger on a 1980s youth generation with no seeming future ahead

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Rating: ★★★½
Sep 6, 1999Time-Travelling Slackers
A quirky hit that jumped aboard the 1980s popularity of time travel themes and laid into them with an appealingly offbeat eccentricity. The film that propelled Keanu Reeves onto become a star

Freaked (1993)

Freaked (1993)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 4, 1999Mutants and Mad Scientist Gonzo Comedy
Wonderfully nonsensical film directed by Alex Winter of Bill and Ted fame about the lives of a group of mutant freaks. Amazing makeup effects, a bizarre sense of humour and several well-known actors spoofing themselves

The Matrix (1999)

The Matrix (1999)
Rating: ★★★★★
May 11, 1999Virtual Reality
A film that was as groundbreaking when it came out as Star Wars was in its day. The Wachowskis create a defining work on Virtual Reality themes and do so with a sublime cool and a series of breathtaking action moves that blew everybody away

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Rating: ★★★
May 23, 2003Virtual Reality
The first of the sequels to The Matrix inevitably disappointed on the massive build-up. The Wachowskis leave more questions than answers, while the new action scenes are often jaw-dropping they also feel boiler-plated on

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 11, 2003Virtual Reality
Third of The Matrix sequels and the weakest of the series. This offers one showstopping effects sequence, on the other hand it also leaves a host of unanswered questions dangling

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 24, 2006Animation/Philip K. Dick Adaptation/Identity Bending Drugs
Richard Linklater conducts an animated adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel with extremely faithful results. Keanu Reeves is a police officer assigned to investigate what he realises is himself

The Bad Batch (2016)

The Bad Batch (2016)
Rating: ★★
Jul 1, 2017Future Desert Wasteland of Crazies
Ana Lily Amirpour caught attention with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. She makes her second film here, set in a desert prison of cannibals and scavengers, sort of Escape from New York by way of The Burning Man Festival

The Neon Demon (2016)

The Neon Demon (2016)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 3, 2016Horror Film in the L.A. Modelling World
Nicolas Winding Refn makes a horror film set in the L.A. modelling world. A film of hypnotic surfaces that glitter with a troubling undertow, the result is like Valley of the Dolls as remade by Dario Argento

Replicas (2018)

Replicas (2018)
Rating:
Mar 17, 2019Scientist Clones His Dead Family
Whatever you want to say about his acting ability, Keanu Reeves represents a cool and has smarts in the projects he takes on. So when he takes a producing role as here, you feel it is a project you should pay attention to. Instead, the cloning film that he makes is absolutely laughable and should contend for an award for the SF film with the least plausible science in it