Hudson Hawk (1991)
Apr 1, 2003Gonzo Caper Comedy
Madcap slapstick caper comedy with Bruce Willis as a cat burglar. This was a massive box-office flop at the time but remains a lunatically out-of-control mess that is frequently hilarious
Daniel Waters
Batman Returns (1992)
Dec 26, 2000Comic-Book Superhero
The second of Tim Burton's Batman films is even more beautifully dark and glistering than the first, introducing Michelle Pfeiffer as a sizzling Cat Woman and Danny De Vito as a venomous Penguin who respectively own the show
Demolition Man (1993)
Nov 11, 2000Satirical Politically Correct Dystopia/Action
One of Sylvester Stallone's better films, a satirically funny work where he plays a contemporary police officer unfrozen in a future overrun by Political Correctness to chase down criminal Wesley Snipes
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
Vampire Academy (2014)
Feb 8, 2014School for Vampires
One has zero enthusiasm for this, which has been sold as Twilight meets Harry Potter. Defying expectation, it is written with a sarcastic amusement puncturing its own seriousness and has a great performance from its leading lady, if in the end it is too weighted down by story exposition needed to set up its sequels to ever open up dramatically