Too Tired to Die (1998)
Feb 24, 2001Personified Death/Indie Comedy
Quirky indie film where a man encounters various strange people after learning he has 24 hours left to live
Michael Imperioli
Shark Tale (2004)
Sep 24, 2004Animation/Talking Fish
DreamWorks animated talking fish film that was dismissed in the shadow of Pixar’s earlier Finding Nemo but is perfectly likeable in its own right
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Jan 17, 2010Murdered Girl Looks on From the Afterlife
A film about a dead girl trying to stop her paedophile murderer from the afterlife. A grim story becomes a visual effects vehicle wrecked by Peter Jackson's overblown amateur hour symbolism
The Call (2013)
Mar 16, 2013911 Call Psycho-Thriller
A formulaic psycho-thriller from the usually worthwhile Brad Anderson with Halle Berry as a 911 call operator who answers a call from an abducted Abigail Breslin that feels like a cable thriller ended on the big screen
Oldboy (2013)
Nov 29, 2013Imprisonment and Revenge
Spike Lee's English-language remake of Oldboy is an abortion. Where Park Chan-Wook directed the original with an insane energy, whereas Lee only delivers a formula action film and fumbles the ending