Piranha (1995)
Apr 11, 1999Killer Fish
The 1978 Piranha is remade as a cable tv movie but has excised all the humour and witty genre in-referencing of the original
Mila Kunis
American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002)
Dec 28, 2004Psycho University Student
A sequel that has almost no connection to the original and has Mila Kunis as a psychopathic student trying to get into a prestigious criminal profiling course
Max Payne (2008)
Oct 19, 2008Videogame Adaptation/Vigilante Cop
Based on the popular videogame, this is fairly much Death Wish by way of Jacob's Ladder and proves an underwhelming delivery of its promise
The Book of Eli (2010)
Jan 18, 2010Post-Holocaust Action
Denzel Washington as an enigmatic Man With No Name wandering the post-holocaust apocalyptic landscape. This follows the cliches of the genre before it bizarrely morphs into a Biblical allegory partway through
Black Swan (2010)
Jan 14, 2011Ballet Psycho-Thriller
Award-winning Darren Aronofsky film about the rivalry between two ballerinas. At heart though, this is no more than a Brian De Palma psycho-thriller with pretensions
Ted (2012)
Jun 28, 2012Foul-Mouthed Teddy Bear
Comedy about a foul-mouthed talking teddy bear. This gets its laughs from much scatological, decidedly non-PC humour that occasionally manages to be funny, especially when it comes to some of the 80s pop culture jokes
Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)
Mar 8, 2013The Wizard of Oz Prequel
Sam Raimi's prequel to The Wizard of Oz is now; the story of how a conman fools an entire land rather than of an innocent girl just trying to find her way home. The reconceptualisation of Oz comes with a colourful sweep
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Feb 7, 2015Space Opera
The Wachowskis set out to make a space opera adventure in the Star Wars vein. As always, the elevate every genre they take on and the film is packed with astonishing action sequences and wild, mind-expanding ideas