Bruce Greenwood

Servants of Twilight (1991)

Servants of Twilight (1991)
Rating: ★★
Mar 23, 2001Pursuit by Crazed Cultists/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation
Dean R. Koontz adaptation with Bruce Greenwood as a private detective drawn into helping a woman protect her child from crazed cultists that believe he is the Antichrist
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The Core (2003)

The Core (2003)
Rating: ★
Jun 9, 2003Journey to the Centre of the Earth
A CGI disaster film about a journey to the centre of the Earth to restart the magnetic core. This is a film construed as no more than a series of spectacular self-contained disaster set-pieces, often irrespective of any of them making sense
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Racing Stripes (2005)

Racing Stripes (2005)
Rating: ★
Jan 16, 2005Racing Zebra/Talking Barnyard Animals
Schizoid film - on one level a National Velvet-like story in which Hayden Panettiere trains a zebra to enter a horse race; another in which the animals and insects crack one-liners and make poop and pee jokes
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Star Trek (2009)

Star Trek (2009)
Rating: ★★
May 12, 2009Intergalactic Adventures
J.J. Abrams revives the Star Trek franchise by recasting it with younger faces and rewriting continuity. But in the appeal to a hipper, sexier vibe, it feels a long way from Gene Roddenberry’s creation – nowhere in evidence is the original's concern with galactic politics and social issues of the day
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Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)

Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
Rating: ★★★½
May 19, 2011Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
One of the best of the animated Batman films, telling the story of the overlooked Robin Jason Todd and his resurrection as the villain Red Hood, a film that has an adult tone and comes with immensely exciting action scenes
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Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)

Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
Rating: ★★
May 17, 2013Intergalactic Adventures
I had mixed feelings about J.J. Abrams' reboot of Star Trek This time around the actors seem more at home in the characters and the plot works a good deal better (for the most part), while Abrams creates a hurtling effects spectacle that is the most action-oriented of the Trek films
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Spectral (2016)

Spectral (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 29, 2017Soldiers vs Spirit Beings
Highly original piece that works as a supernatural version of Black Hawk Down with a unit of soldiers cut off in rebel territory and surrounded by spirit beings. Grippingly effective both in terms of the tension and a script that treats the phenomenon with scrupulous rationalism
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Gerald’s Game (2017)

Gerald’s Game (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 15, 2017Woman Handuffed to a Bed/Stephen King Adaptation
Mike Flanagan tackles one of the most difficult Stephen King books from a logistics perspective – the book has only one character who is handcuffed naked to a bed for the duration – but pulls it off with great faithfulness
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Rating: ★★½
Dec 2, 2017Spy Film/Comic-Book Adaptation
Kingsman with its witty parody of gentlemanliness and action movie sensibilities, was the smartest of the modern spy movie parodies. This sequel feels like it has gone from Austin Powers for grown-ups to the excesses of the Roger Moore Bond films in the space of one film
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Batman: Gotham By Gaslight (2018)

Batman: Gotham By Gaslight (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 11, 2018Animation/Victorian Era Batman
Adaptation of a classic graphic novel that imagines Batman back in the late 19th Century as he fights Jack the Ripper. This works rather well – in fact, better than the graphic novel it is based on
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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 18, 2023Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Mike Flanagan mini-series that expands on the story to incorporate a host of other Poe stories. More like another of Mike Flanagan’s cross-generational ghost stories by way of tv’s Succession with a lot of Poe-esque margin notes
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