Turistas (2006)
Feb 23, 2008Organ Harvesting of Tourists
A blatant copy of Hostel about tourists in Brazil being abducted into an organ harvesting scheme. Director John Stockwell seems distracted by filming diving scenes
Olivia Wilde
Year One (2009)
Jan 30, 2010Cavemen Stumble Through the Old Testament Comedy
Not very funny comedy from Harold Ramis and Judd Apatow where Jack Black and Michael Cera are cavemen who stumble through many incidents from the Old Testament
Tron Legacy (2010)
Jan 10, 2011Adventures in Cyberspace
Tron was a groundreaking work that predicted the advent of cyberspace. Three decades on, this sequel never does anything as imaginative, although advances in effects technology allow for a dazzling reinvention of The Grid
The Change-Up (2011)
Sep 10, 2011Bodyswap Comedy
A raucous and eminently predictable variant on the bodyswap comedy that also manages to be expertly played by leads Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds and pulls off some genuine laugh-out-loud moments
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Jul 9, 2011Western/Alien Invasion
High-concept Jon Favreau directed film that has a winning title concept, overflows with star power and is made on a big budget. But the script feels like it had no idea what to do after setting up its title conceptual mash-up
In Time (2011)
Nov 4, 2011Dystopian Future
Niccol has a smartness that makes him a must-watch director. Considerable conceptual dexterity has gone into this variant on Logan's Run set in a future in which time is regarded as a currency
Her (2013)
Jan 11, 2014Human-A.I. Romance
Spike Jonze addresses virtual relationships in this story of a romance between a man and an A.I. A film that is astonishing in its freshness, naturalness and avoidance of any of the cliches that have dogged other treatments.
The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Feb 28, 2015Experiments in the Resurrection of the Dead
The experiment to bring someone back from the dead has been trod many times before – think something that falls somewhere between Flatliners and Pet Semetary – and this only rehashes it in tired and unimaginative ways
How It Ends (2021)
Mar 10, 2025The Last Day of the World Comedy
A shot during the Covid lockdown film. An amiable comedy set on the last day of the world where Zoe Lister-Jones and her imaginary younger self Cailee Spaeny walk across L.A. to find closure with the people in her life
DC League of Super Pets (2022)
Sep 4, 2022Animation/DC Comics Superhero Pets
Superheroes have overrun screens. It is starting to seem a little too much when we now get an animated film about animal superheroes who form their own Justice League
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
Nov 5, 2022Sinister Utopian Town
Actress Olivia Wilde creates a variant on The Stepford Wives set in an idyllic 1950s town where the women seem to be prisoners. Wilde is making a feminist parable but the plausibility of her SF scenario falls apart