The Other Me (2000)
Jan 1, 2010Kid and His Clone/Children's Film
Disney Channel film about a cloned kid. The result indifferently slung together and the basic premise dealt with in a hardly serious way
Sarah Gadon
Leslie, My Name is Evil (2009)
Apr 18, 2010Manson Family Killings
Film about the Manson Family killings told through the eyes of one of Manson Girls Leslie Van Houten that becomes a savage and biting indictment of 1960s social morality
The Moth Diaries (2011)
May 20, 2012Possible Vampire in a Girl's Boarding School
Interesting attempt to rewrite Carmilla for the Twilight crowd. In fact, this is a film that features more credible teenage girls and is far more successful as a horror film and at creating uncanny mood than the Twilight films were
Antiviral (2012)
Oct 5, 2012Future World of Celebrity Viruses
Brandon Cronenberg makes an impressive writing-directing debut, taking up the thematic reins of his father's earlier films in a darkly satiric future escalation of contemporary celebrity culture
Cosmopolis (2012)
Jul 11, 2012Vision of Near-Future Social Collapse
David Cronenberg film that takes place in a limousine and consists of a surreal drift through a near-future world in the midst of economic collapse, observing it with darkly brilliant, razor-sharp agitprop dialogue
Enemy (2013)
Mar 14, 2014Mysterious Doppelganger
Denis Villeneuve slips into a very Cronenbergian vein to deliver a film about Jake Gyllenhaal and a mysterious doppelganger. A fascinatingly oblique and cryptic work, just as long as one does not require that it comes with any easy explanations
The Nut Job (2014)
Jan 17, 2014Animation/Talking Animal Heist Film
I went into this with zero expectations, expecting no more than a work of formula family entertainment and came out gently surprised. Essentially a talking cartoon animals variant on a heist plot, it does the formula likeably and with none of the relentless smart-ass cynicism of too many contemporaries
Dracula Untold (2014)
Oct 25, 2014Dracula Origin Story
Dracula gets an origin story in what was touted as the flagship for Universal's Famous Monsters shared universe. Alas, Vlad the Impaler, one of the great tyrants of history, gets rewritten as an honourable warrior and decent family man
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
Vampires vs. The Bronx (2020)
May 30, 2021Vampires Invade the Neighbourhood
Essentially a US version of Attack the Block with vampires instead of aliens, this is a smart, fun effort that adapts the vampire film to local hood culture