The Last Mimzy (2007)
Dec 27, 2007Toys from the Future
Adaptation of a classic SF short story about children's toys from the future that give them expanded mental powers. Much of the story has been dropped in favour of banal, New Age thinking
Kathryn Hahn
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Jan 12, 2014Daydreamer's Fantasies
Ben Stiller's remake of the unfunny Danny Kaye vehicle about an impractical daydreamer has no more depth than an inspirational postcard and takes a long time to deliver it
Tomorrowland (2015)
May 23, 2015The Fight to Create a Utopian Future
Despite being another film based on a Disney theme park, I had high expectations of this because of Brad Bird. Alas, the initial promise of a retro-sf work that mainlined the wonderment of Jetsons-styled futurism turns into a surprisingly glum and message-heavy work about how the modern world is a depressing place
The Visit (2015)
Sep 19, 2015Found Footage/Weird Grandparents
M. Night Shyamalan makes one of his best films in ages. He kicks back his heels and goes nuts – at the same time as he is spooking us he also has us laughing; he ventures into making a Found Footage film but at the same time is also deconstructing the process with hilarious results
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Mar 9, 2019Animation/Comic-Book Superhero
Sony, the holders of the Spider-Man copyright, give impression of doing everything they can to squeeze what they can out of the property while Marvel Comics are hot. This is a madcap animated offering that sets out to mix up a host of alternate takes on Spider-Man in what visually resembles an explosion at a pop art exhibition
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
Nov 25, 2018Animation/Famous Monsters Comedy
I'm not a fan of the Hotel Transylvania films and their reduction of the Famous Monsters to slapstick yocks. This is exactly the same as the preceding films, no better, no worse and with only minute plotting difference
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)
Jan 29, 2022Animation/Famous Monsters Comedy
Minus Adam Sandler this time, the Hotel Transylvania series trots out a fourth entry. Here, in some search for novelty on what has gone before, the monsters are turned back into humans
Fixed (2025)
Jan 31, 2026Animation/Talking Dog About to Be Fixed
An animated film from Genndy Tartakovsky, director of the Hotel Transylvania films, that is a really quite filthy and hilarious story of a dog about to have its testicles removed who goes on one last adventure