Lovesick (1983)
May 9, 2001Psychotherapy Romantic Comedy/Freud's Ghost
Comedy in which Freud's ghost pops up to offer advice to psychologist Dudley Moore after he falls in love with a patient
David Strathairn
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Jun 3, 2000Black Alien Visitor Comedy
John Sayles responded to E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial and its suburban middle-class fantasy with this wry comedy in which a mute Black alien visitor (Joe Morton) arrives in Manhattan
Sneakers (1992)
Jun 22, 1999Hi-Tech Thriller
Standout thriller set around the world of computing, one of the earliest techno-thriller to adapt to the new internet age
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)
May 15, 1999Shakespeare Adaptation/Fairy Enchantments
Amid Kenneth Branagh's dynamic cinematic revival of Shakespeare in the 1990s, there was this all-star adaptation of Shakespeare's whimsy about fairy enchantments. An okay adaptation but it is eclipsed by other superior versions of the story
Lathe of Heaven (2002)
Aug 30, 2022Man Whose Dreams Change the World When He Wakes
The second film adaptation of conceptually ingenious Ursula Le Guin novel about a man whose dreams change reality when he wakes up
Twisted (2004)
Jul 25, 2004Serial Killer Thriller
Disappointing Philip Kaufman thriller where detective Ashley Judd finds she is dealing with a serial killer who is obsessed with her
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Apr 21, 2008Secret World of Magical Creatures
Film version of a popular series of children's books that has a good deal of fun bringing to life a secret world of trolls and goblins
The Uninvited (2009)
Apr 4, 2009Haunting/Asian Horror Remake
The Hollywood remake of the South Korean ghost story A Tale of Two Sisters that waters down and reduces the effectiveness of the original to generic shocks
Cold Souls (2009)
Mar 9, 2010Soul Extraction
Indie film in which Paul Giamatti goes to a company that specialises in removing the soul only to have his stolen. An SF film that feels like a Woody Allen comedy minus the one-liners
The Tempest (2010)
Jul 10, 2011Shakespeare Adaptation
Version of the Shakespeare play that gives us a female Prospero (Helen Mirren) but is otherwise surprisingly faithful. Director Julie Taymor opens the play up with considerable visual extravagance
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Aug 9, 2012Spy Action Film
A reboot of the Jason Bourne series with Jeremy Renner replacing Matt Damon. The exhiliratingly kinetic action scenes are watered down, while the plot lacks the same focus. The first of the series to enter genre territory however
Godzilla (2014)
May 17, 2014Giant Monster Bash
A slightly different beast to its Japanese counterparts and an impressive revival of the series. Gareth Edwards, who made the excellent Monsters, delivers mass destruction on a mind-bogglingly vast scale in ways that approach painterly beauty
Fast Color (2018)
Nov 8, 2021Superpowers Film
A superpowers rather than a superhero film with Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman with abilities on the run who is forced to seek refuge with her estranged family
Godzilla, King of the Monsters (2019)
Aug 24, 2019Giant Monster Bash
Follow-up to the 2014 US-made Godzilla. This introduces other monsters from the Japanese series and tries to create a shared universe. But when the film is all massively-scaled mass destruction, it seems hard to root for the monsters
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Feb 12, 2022Fake Clairvoyant/Predestination
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, Guillermo Del Toro’s remake of the 1947 film noirfilm about a fake clairvoyant is an exquisite piece of mood and design
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Feb 7, 2026Disney Animation/World of Talking Animals
Zootopia was one of Disney’s freshest animated works in a decade largely marked only by mediocrity. This is a sequel where the fantastically original world of the first film slips into being just another Disney IP