Hackers (1995)
May 1, 2004Teenage Computer Hackers
Film that wants to be an expose of the lives of hackers but seems an absurd agglomeration of cliches that stumbles over its own feet trying to establish its counter-culture cool
Jonny Lee Miller
Complicity (2000)
Mar 7, 2005Serial Killer Thriller
A so-so adaptation of an Iain Banks novel featuring Jonny Lee Miller as a crusading journalist who becomes involved in the hunt for a serial killer who is tied to his own past
Dracula 2000 (2000)
Dec 22, 2000Dracula in the Modern Day
An interesting attempt to bring Dracula into the modern day - the film that Dracula A.D. 1972 should have been. An unknown Gerard Butler makes a captivatingly magnetic Dracula
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
Aeon Flux (2005)
Feb 25, 2006Dystopian Future/TV Series Remake
Disappointingly watered down live-action adaptation of the cult animated series. Karyn Kusama creates some interesting visuals but eventually everything lapses to Hollywood formula
Frankenstein (2011)
Sep 21, 2012Frankenstein Stage Adaptation
Danny Boyle's stage adaptation, broadcast live on movie screens, wrings up some unique changes on the classic tale. The role of Frankenstein and creation alternated between Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
Byzantium (2012)
Nov 4, 2013Vampire Film
Neil Jordan makes a vampire film that stands at marked contrast to Twilight and Jordan's earlier Interview with the Vampire. Jordan stamps the class of a mature filmmaker on what might have been a lesser work in another's hands
Dark Shadows (2012)
May 10, 2012TV Series Comedy Remake/Vampire/Family Saga
Tim Burton's slide into mediocrity continues with this comedic update of the cult Gothic soap opera tv series, which is now played at a level of cartoonish unseriousness that resembles the Addams Family
Settlers (2021)
Dec 10, 2021Colonists on Mars
A story about the harsh conditions suffered by a family of colonists on Mars