Antz (1998)
Jun 11, 1999Animation/Talking Ants
The first animated film from DreamWorks, a rather charming effort that takes place in an ant nest with Woody Allen perfectly voice cast as a nebbish ant who decides to defy the crowd
Chris Weitz
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Jul 30, 2000Rejuvenation Formula Comedy
Sequel to the Eddie Murphy remake of The Nutty Professor. That film's tour-de-force was a scene with Murphy playing all the members of his family. Here the family have been brought to the fore. Murphy's performance and the effects are expectedly great but the plot is all over the place
Down to Earth (2001)
Feb 16, 2001Afterlife Mixup/Race Reversal Comedy
Remake of Heaven Can Wait/Here Comes Mr Jordan as a vehicle for comedian Chris Rock where the heavenly body mix-up now becomes about a black man ending up in a white man's body
The Golden Compass (2007)
Dec 27, 2007Epic Fantasy Adventure
The attempt to create another Lord of the Rings went astray with this adaptation of Philip Pulllman's fantasy series, which cut many of the core elements of the books so as not to offend religious conservatives
New Moon (2009)
Nov 30, 2009Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance
The second of the Twilight films where the moderately grounded original is blown up into the near laughable with the ridiculously over-the-top hyper-sexualised posturing of its male leads
Cinderella (2015)
Mar 14, 2015Fairytale Adaptation
Live-action remake of the Disney animated film. This varies little from the well-worn elements of the story to the point of over-familiarity but director Kenneth Branagh manages a lush and beautifully staged effort
Rogue One (2016)
Jan 7, 2017Star Wars Prequel
Disney are now doing what Lucasfilm did with their novels in the 80s and spinning adventures off from even minor background characters. This is a grittier Dirty Dozen adventure but still recycles the same basic elements
Prospect (2018)
Nov 3, 2019Interstellar Prospectors/Planetary Adventure
I can't say the premise of this - a gold prospecting story located in space - did much for me. Contrary to expectation, this is a surprisingly good planetary adventure that does a fine job creating an alien world with minimalist effect and telling a strong character-driven story
Pinocchio (2022)
Sep 16, 2022Living Puppet Boy/Disney Remake
The first of two Pinocchio adaptations of 2022, Here Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis delivers a live-action remake of the Disney animated film
The Creator (2023)
Nov 25, 2023Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Gareth Edwards, the director of Monsters and Godzilla, makes a genre-defining work about robotics and artificial intelligence set in a stunningly detailed future world. This site's Top Film for 2023
If You Were the Last (2023)
Apr 12, 2024NASA Space Mission Romantic Comedy
A space film set aboard a NASA space mission as two stranded astronauts debate whether to surrender to mutual attraction. In contrast to realistically grounded efforts such as Gravity, The Martian et al, this is a comedy
Afraid (2024)
Sep 28, 2024Smarthome A.I. Amok
The first film to come out following the advent of generative A.I. From American Pie director Chris Weitz, an evil A.I. film that arrives with all the hysteria of villagers with burring torches in a Frankenstein film