30 Days of Night (2007)
Feb 3, 2008Small Town in Alaska Overrun by Vampires
Solid vampire film produced by Sam Raimi about a small Alaskan town that suddenly finds itself besieged by vampires who have come because of the month of night
Stuart Beattie
G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra (2009)
Aug 25, 2009Futuristic Military Action Team
Stephen Sommers make a film based on the popular action toy line. Barring one exhilarating sequence in the middle, this consists of lots of sound and CGI fury amounting to very little at all
Tomorrow When the War Began (2010)
Mar 26, 2011Australia Invaded/Teenagers Fight Back
An Australian version of Red Dawn - prettily mounted but feels more like Dawson's Creek Goes to War than it has does a realistic war film
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
May 20, 2011Pirate Fantasy Swashbuckler
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is revived for a fifth outing. There is a new director in Rob Marshall but bar an energetic comic opening, he never does much that hits the zany heights of the previous entries
I Frankenstein (2014)
Jan 25, 2014Frankenstein Monster's Modern-Day War with Demons
An empty-headed work that seems entirely premised around the provision of CGI effects spectacle and actively resists engagement on any other level. A spectacularly ridiculous film in almost every way