Pitch Black (2000)
Feb 19, 2000Planetary Survival
A gripping and particularly well conceived planetary survival story. The film that launched Vin Diesel's career and he has never been better than as the lethal, tight-lipped serial killer Riddick
Cole Hauser
Paparazzi (2004)
Nov 17, 2004Celebrity Eliminates Paparazzi
Mel Gibson produced film where a Hollywood actor becomes fed up with paparazzi and begins eliminating them
The Cave (2005)
Jul 3, 2007Cave Monsters
This big-budget film came out the same year as The Descent and is a very similar work about a cast of name explorers in a vast network of underground caves being hunted by monsters
Transcendence (2014)
Apr 19, 2014Scientist's Mind Uploaded Into a Machine
A film that bites off some Big Ideas from the transhumanist movement – A.I., nanotechnology, and especially Mind Upload – and fails to do anything with them except for reach for hoary cliches of Frankenstein science. A film that, despite its self-importance, ends up as only a better budgeted version of The Lawnmower Man
The Ritual Killer (2023)
Jul 14, 2023Ritual Killings
A film that stands much in the shadow of Se7en and the serial killer thriller with Morgan Freeman tracking a ritual African killer