Red Planet (2000)
Dec 31, 2000Mission to Mars
One of a spate of scientifically grounded Mars movies that came out in 2000, featuring a space mission crew stranded on the planet
Simon Baker
Land of the Dead (2005)
Aug 5, 2005Zombies
George Romero's return to the zombie genre after twenty years, after others starting remaking and homaging his films. Romero still makes potent social metaphors but the gory extremes of his earlier films seem tamed down
The Ring Two (2005)
Mar 18, 2005Haunting/Possession
Sequel to The Ring, the English-language remake of Ringu. The filmmakers have returned to the source and brought in original director Hideo Nakata only to produce one of the most disappointing of all the Ringu/Ring films
Sex and Death 101 (2007)
Jan 1, 2010Man Receives a List of All the Women He Will Ever Have Sex With
What starts out seeming like a frat boy comedy about a guy receiving a list of all the women he will sleep with turns into an intriguingly different beast altogether
The Lodger (2009)
Dec 13, 2010Modern-Day Jack the Ripper Killings
Fourth version of the tale about a family who believe their boarder might be Jack the Ripper. This is updated to the present and abandons most of the story for a mind-bending pretzel of identity speculations
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Nov 17, 2010Psycho Deputy
Disappointing adaptation of a classic noir novel where neither Michael Winterbottom nor a blank Casey Affleck do much to get inside the noirish mood or the troubled central character of a psychopathic sheriff's deputy