Eve’s Bayou (1997)
May 10, 2009Backwater Louisiana Childhood/Voodoo
Actress Kasi Lemmons directs a strong African-American Coming of Age story set in a backwater Louisiana town, one where voodoo is a regular part of the culture
Meagan Good
D.E.B.S. (2004)
Jun 19, 2005Lesbian Charlie's Angels Parody
An extremely witty parody of Charlie's Angels (that also tapps the whole Austin Powers spy spoof fad). This amusingly rewrites the tv show in terms of lesbian attraction
One Missed Call (2008)
Sep 3, 2009Haunted Cellphone Calls
Probably the worst among the mid-2000s fad for English-language remakes of Japanese horror films. Takashi Miike's original is reduced to affectless CGI pop-up scares
Saw V (2008)
Oct 31, 2008Killer's Sadistic Games
Fifth of the Saw films. By now the series has developed such a complicated backstory it is difficult following how it all pieces together
The Unborn (2009)
May 5, 2010Haunting/Possession
Scriptwriter David S. Goyer takes the director's choice to make a possession film. The one distinction here is that Goyer draws from Jewish mythology, otherwise this feels like another canned teen horror film
Shazam! (2019)
Jul 6, 2019Comic-Book Superhero
Adaptation of the superhero comic is played for comedy, making it very different in emphasis to the other films in the DCEU. The boy into man transformation is played up as essentially Big with superpowers - with appealing results
Monster Hunter (2020)
Mar 6, 2021Videogame Adaptation/Monster-Filled Other Dimension
Resident Evil series director Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich return with an adaptation of another videogame series. This strips everything down to Milla fighting monsters
Day Shift (2022)
Aug 19, 2022Vampire Hunters
An enjoyably entertaining film featuring Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco as vampire hunters. This plays out as a comic buddy film mixed with a series of wildly charged action scenes
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Apr 14, 2023Comic-Book Superhero
Shazam! was one of the more enjoyable DCEU superhero offerings, placing a light-hearted spin on the superheroics. This is the sequel