Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Rating: ★★
Jul 31, 1999Genetically-Engineered Killer Sharks
A killer shark film by way of Jurassic Park. The perpetually terrible Renny Harlin creates something almost watchable that vies between moments of tension and those that collapse into the entertainingly absurd

The Mist (2007)

The Mist (2007)
Rating: ★★★★
May 25, 2009Creatures in the Fog/Stephen King Adaptation
Frank Darabont delivers one of the best Stephen King adaptations where the story of people at siege in a supermarket from unseen creatures in a mystery fog outside becomes a study in fear and prejudice. With one of the great unforgettable endings

Vice (2015)

Vice (2015)
Rating:
Jun 30, 2017Rogue Pleasure Android
Bruce Willis is the CEO of a corporation that provides customers with androids to use for whatever vices they want. Very similar to tv's recent Westworld but has a script so boneheaded you can almost imagine it acted as an example for Westworld to do the exact opposite

The Veil (2016)

The Veil (2016)
Rating:
Mar 7, 2016Ghosts of Mass Suicide Cult Members
This has a great premise – a camera crew revisiting the site of a cult mass suicide stir up the ghosts of the cult members – and a director who I always maintained had much untapped potential. Alas, the finished result seems to slip by his hands

The Predator (2018)

The Predator (2018)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 26, 2019Alien Huntsman Comes to Earth
Shane Black, a writer-director with a reasonable cult following, makes the sixth Predator film (he also appeared as an actor in the original). Black shakes the series up, introduces a number of new ideas and makes an okay entry