Matilda (1996)
May 5, 2003Gifted Child/Roald Dahl Adaptation
Danny DeVito directs an adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel with Mara Wilson as a mentally gifted child. In DeVito's hands, Roald Dahl's black bite overbalances into broad farce
Michael Shamberg
Gattaca (1997)
Aug 9, 1999Genetically-Engineered Dystopia
The first film from Andrew Niccol, a smart work set in a dystopian future where genetic engineering has perfected the human species and those who are born naturally are doomed to an underclass
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Aug 20, 2005Voodoo
Kate Hudson becomes a care-aid on an old Southern mansion and finds voodoo at work. Director Iain Softley piles on the Southern atmosphere but only strains at horror effect
Contagion (2011)
Sep 9, 2011Plague Outbreak
Steven Soderbergh turns to making a plague outbreak film that uncannily predicted a great deal of what happened when Covid-19 struck. A reasonable star cast line-up suborn themselves to a cool sober script