The Santa Clause (1994)
Feb 18, 2000Man Becomes Santa
Popular film with Tim Allen as a regular family man who is forced to become Santa. Several sequels followed.
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The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Dec 13, 2002Santa Seeks a Wife
The first of two sequels to The Santa Clause with Tim Allen as Santa Claus, this benefits from a bigger budget
Mindhunters (2004)
Feb 26, 2007Serial Killer Thriller
Serial killer thriller from the perpetually terrible Renny Harlin. A variant on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, it promptly collapses into ludicrous plotting and an even more ridiculous string of deaths
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Apr 11, 2005Urban Siege
Fair-to-reasonable remake of John Carpenter's low-budget 1976 film about a handful of staff in a police station under siege from gangs outside. Much of the original has undergone change
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Santa vs Jack Frost
Third of the Santa Clause films starring Tim Allen as Santa where his reality is upended by the evil Jack Frost
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Jun 6, 2009War Against the Machines
The fourth Terminator film is slightly better than you would expect of something directed by the empty-headed McG. There are some undeniably spectacular action sequences, although the film still stands too much in the shadow of what has gone before
Tron Legacy (2010)
Jan 10, 2011Adventures in Cyberspace
Tron was a groundreaking work that predicted the advent of cyberspace. Three decades on, this sequel never does anything as imaginative, although advances in effects technology allow for a dazzling reinvention of The Grid
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Jun 7, 2014Man Forced to Repeat the Same Day Over/Alien Invasion
The rarity of a summer blockbuster with smarts – think Groundhog Day reworked by way of Battle Los Angeles. The timeloop idea is dealt with in clever ways making for an action film driven by an original sf story
The Lion King (2019)
Oct 19, 2019Disney Live-Action Remake/Talking Animals
Jon Favreau had success recreating The Jungle Book in live-action with CGI animals and does the same with The Lion King - only to produce an exacting, lifeless replication missing the charms of the original
Tron Ares (2025)
Dec 13, 2025Adventures in Cyberspace
Tron was a genuinely groundbreaking work. It is hard to describe how ill conceived this sequel is where we have gone to predicting the idea of cyberspace to a fight over a glorified 3D printer