All Superheroes Must Die (2011)
Mar 27, 2014Superhero Film
Low-budget superhero film. With a plot that strips the superheroes of their powers and them facing a villain's deathtraps, we end up with little more than a Saw copy in funny costumes
Lucas Till
Battle Los Angeles (2011)
Mar 13, 2011Alien Invasion/War Film
Essentially this is a big-budget alien invasion film like Independence Day having been reconceived as a gritty, shakycam-shot war movie along the lines of Saving Private Ryan
X: First Class (2011)
Jun 5, 2011Comic-Book Superheroes/Origin Prequel
An X-Men origin story that serves as the occasion to recast the series with younger actors. This works far better than the previous two films, integrating the characters in a strong story, although is quiet at the superheroic action
Stoker (2013)
Mar 13, 2013Sinisterly Charming Uncle
The English-language debut from South Korea's Park Chan-wook is a supremely controlled film, more like a period arthouse film than drenched in the buckets of gore we expect of Park … Essentially a reworking of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, a film that takes place all in smouldering tensions
Wolves (2014)
Jul 19, 2015Werewolf Film
Evidently intended to be a werewolf equivalent of the Star Wars saga in in its epically contorted familial struggles, this sits just between the stylish and another classic monster repackaged for the teen crowd and cast with handsome good-looking faces
The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)
Jul 21, 2017Jocks Take Brutal Revenge
Harsh and brutal work written by Bret Easton Ellis of American Psycho fame wherein a group of jocks harass and tear apart the life of Bella Heathcote after she accidentally blinds the leader's eye in the process of rejecting his advances
Monster Trucks (2016)
Apr 8, 2017Creatures Inhabit Vehicles
You can almost see the process in the scriptwriters head "What if we had Monster Truck rallies where the trucks were actual monsters?". Way more entertaining than you ever expect it to be
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Jun 11, 2016Comic-Book Superheroes
The seventh X-Men chapter arrives with a certain ennui. Bryan Singer creates some epic scenes but the sprawling ensemble and the series' ragged continuity makes it hard to invest in the characters, while the new villain looks like a B movie wizard and the mass destruction climax comes surprisingly by the book
The Disappointments Room (2016)
May 5, 2017Haunted House
The haunted house film is a genre that has been mined to a point of almost complete creative exhaustion. This Kate Beckinsale starring effort is about as formulaic, by the book and forgettable as the genre gets