Equinox (1992)
May 28, 2010Futuristic Film Noir
A follow-up to Alan Rudolph's Trouble of Mind, a work of neo-Film Noir in a futuristic setting where Matthew Modine plays twins who are drawn into underworld dealings
Kevin J. O'Connor
No Escape (1994)
Jun 19, 2000Future Prison/Action
Big-budget action film that essentially rewrites Papillon in SF terms. Martin Campbell has a good eye for widescreen action but the film is only drawn in cliches.
Color of Night (1994)
Jun 11, 2004Psycho-Sexual Thriller
A blatant copy of Basic instinct with psychologist Bruce Willis getting involved with Jane March as his patients start being murdered. Much bare flesh but the film is killed by ludicrous plot twists
Virtuosity (1995)
Jun 20, 2002Android Serial Killer
Director Brett Leonard started the fascination with Virtual Reality off with The Lawnmower Man but shot himself in the foot with this absurd braindead follow-up in which Denzel Washington pursues a madly OTT Russell Crowe as an android serial killer
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Mar 18, 2003Occult Detective/War Between Magicians
Clive Braker's third and so far final outing as a director. Barker is trying to tell an occult detective story but fails to get any of the mood that film noir operates by, while the film registers blandly in terms of horror
Canadian Bacon (1995)
Dec 20, 2000US Declares War on Canada Comedy
The one and only fiction film made by documentary-maker Michael Moore of Fahrenheit 9/11 fame, a broad farce concerning an imaginary war declared on Canada by the USA for political purposes
The Love Bug (1997)
Jan 1, 2010Cute Car/Disney Comedy
TV movie revival of Disney's Herbie films and one of the better sequels, playing around with the concept and even adding a Herbie origin story
Deep Rising (1998)
Feb 27, 2003Sea Monsters
Early Stephen Sommers film that feels like it has been mounted as Alien meets Titanic. Between the ridiculous one-dimensional writing and Sommers’ CGI overkill, this heads well into bad movie material
The Mummy (1999)
May 11, 1999Revived Mummy/Adventure
Nominal remake of the Boris Karloff The Mummy, which has now been inflated into a big budget Indiana Jones adventure. Stephen Sommers lets the film overspill with CGI spectacle but the exercise is deflated by a jokey, unserious attitude
Chill Factor (1999)
Sep 6, 1999Action Chase/Chemical Weapons
An inane action film that sets out to copy Speed with Skeet Ulrich and a motormouth Cuba Gooding Jr forced to drive an ice cream truck filled with chemical weapons
Van Helsing (2004)
May 12, 2004Monster Hunter/Famous Monster Bash
Stephen Sommers conducts a big-budget rehash of a 1940s Universal monster bash. A film so overloaded with CGI bombast and general overkill it becomes utterly absurd.
Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane (2007)
Jun 20, 2017Zombies on a Plane
One of several films that came out not long after Snakes on a Plane offering similar wacky collusions – in this case, a zombie outbreak aboard a plane. The surprise is that the film plays itself seriously
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
The Master (2012)
Sep 27, 2012L. Ron Hubbard Fictionalised Biopic
Paul Thomas Anderson's loose biopic of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is a film composed of great acting and great individual scenes more so than it ever coheses as a story or delves in to interrogate its characters. Far too elusive as a story to quite be the masterpiece it is readily being hailed as
11.22.63 (2016)
May 1, 2016Time Traveller Tries to Prevent the Assassination of JFK/Stephen King Adaptation
Stephen King adapted mini-series in which James Franco finds a mysterious door that leads back to 1960 and sets out to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy
Captive State (2019)
Jun 9, 2019The Resistance Against an Alien Invasion
A highly politicised films that takes place several years after an alien invasion and concerns the resistance against them. However, the aliens feature very little and the film resembles more of a 'hood drama
Exorcism at 60,000 Feet (2020)
Jul 31, 2020Exorcism on an Airplane/Bad Taste Comedy
A possession film set on an airplane. This sets out to parody exorcism movie cliches but makes a beeline for outrageous bad taste humour. It does include a great cast of genre regulars