Mirror Mirror (1990)
Apr 15, 2025Cursed Mirror
A 1990s video release, a variant on Carrie where a bullied teen girl enacts vengeance against tormentors with the aid of a cursed mirror
Stephen Tobolowsky
Wedlock (1991)
Sep 15, 2000Future Prison Escape
SF action where Rutger Hauer is sentenced with a collar that will explode if he moves 100 yards apart from Mimi Rogers
Single White Female (1992)
Jul 20, 2000Psycho Roommate
Part of the late 1980s/early 90s spate of post-Fatal Attraction psycho-thrillers featuring deranged women stalkers. A creepy Jennifer Jason Leigh moves into Bridget Fonda's apartment and then turns obsessive
Sneakers (1992)
Jun 22, 1999Hi-Tech Thriller
Standout thriller set around the world of computing, one of the earliest techno-thriller to adapt to the new internet age
Groundhog Day (1993)
Jan 2, 2000Timeloop Comedy
Winning comedy with Bill Murray trapped in a timeloop and forced to repeat the same day over. Murray is at a career-peak best and served by a great script. The surprise is how much the timeloop theme was copied by subsequent films
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
May 8, 2001Dr Jekyll Becomes a Woman Comedy
Another variation on the Dr Jekyll and Hyde becomes a woman theme. This version is played as a modern comedy wherein Tim Daly turns into Sean Young who plays to bitchy excess
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1997)
Jun 28, 2002Animation/Talking Appliances
Third of the Brave Little Toaster films, this takes the talking appliances to Mars and comes with an appealingly zany sense of humour
Black River (2001)
Jun 19, 2010Perfect Town Where Nobody Can Ever Leave
Modest and quite effective Dean R. Koontz adaptation in which Jay Mohr is trapped in a small town run by an A.I. that does everything it can to prevent him from leaving
The Day the World Ended (2001)
Nov 27, 2001Ambiguous Alien Monster
One of a series of films that borrow their titles from old 1950s films, this abandons any connection to the original end of the world film and concerns a boy who may be causing an alien monster to appear
Ritual (2002)
Feb 6, 2020Voodoo
This was intended as the third of the Tales from the Crypt films. A remake of the classic voodoo film I Walked With a Zombie, from Val Lewton, a producer who specialised in psychological ambiguity where we could not be certain if the supernatural was real. All of this is lost in the hands of bad movie director Avi Nesher.
Freaky Friday (2003)
Sep 30, 2003Mother-Daughter Bodyswap Comedy
Enjoyable remake of the 1970s Disney comedy about a mother and daughter who swap bodies. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan nail the swapped roles to perfection
Garfield (2004)
Oct 4, 2004Lazy Talking Cat/Comic-Strip Adaptation
Big screen version of the massively popular Garfield comic-strips in live-action with a CGI talking Garfield. Here Garfield has been tacked onto a plot that feels assembled from every other talking animals film
The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
Oct 20, 2009Time Travel Romance
Film adaptation of the best-selling story about a romance between a woman and a man with the ability to travel through time. Nicely made if not quite holding the emotional involvement the book did
Buried (2010)
Nov 17, 2010Man Buried in a Coffin
A thriller with Ryan Reynolds buried in a coffin where the camera remains inside with him for the entire running time. This must be commended for its rigour in generating suspense while never cheating on its idea
Atlas Shrugged III: Who is John Galt? (2014)
Feb 15, 2015Libertarian Political Fantasy/Ayn Rand Adaptation
The third of the trilogy of films adapted from Ayn Rand's absurd fantasy wherein the leaders of the business world decide to go on strike because they don't feel appreciated enough
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
Mar 15, 2014Animation/Time-Travelling Dog Genius and His Son
DreamWorks animated film based on an old Rocky and Bullwinkle segment about a time-travelling genius dog and his adopted human son. This takes a relentlessly content-free approach to history that strips it down to no more than a series of giddy 3D slapstick gags for the single digit age groups
Fractured (2019)
Mar 13, 2020Hospital Nightmare
Brad Anderson makes a paranoid nightmare as Sam Worthington takes his daughter to a hospital only for her to go missing and he to encounter a Kafka-esque bureaucracy that insists she doesn't exist