Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Apr 3, 2010Time Travel Comedy
A raucous and vulgar, if at times undeniably funny, comedy where John Cusack and three friends use a hot tub at a resort that causes them to travel back in time to the 1980s.
Craig Robinson
Escape from Planet Earth (2013)
Mar 4, 2013Animation/Aliens Imprisoned at Area 51 Comedy
This is fake SF, an animated film that has no interest in its concept, one that exists solely as a series of pop culture jokes, cutsie supporting characters, thrills and feelgood epiphanies
Rapture-Palooza (2013)
Feb 23, 2014Biblical End Times Comedy
There is irresistible appeal to the idea of a comedy that conducts a spoof of the Biblical Rapture. Despite a script from one of the Bill and Ted writers, this emerges as a remarkably unfunny film that consists of about an hour of Craig Robinson delivering crude sexual innuendos
This is The End (2013)
Jun 12, 2013End of the World Comedy
Several well-known actors hole up in a Hollywood mansion as the Biblical Apocalypse hits. While at first seeming a self-congratulatory exercise, this emerges as a raucously funny ensemble drama where each of the actors play to great strength. Seth Rogen may yet earn forgiveness for The Green Hornet
Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Feb 22, 2015Time Travel Comedy
Why we needed a sequel to Hot Tub Time Machine is a big question. Essentially, Back to the Future Part II meets The Hangover, all this does is wind the original's amiable coarseness up by a factor of ten
Sausage Party (2016)
Aug 20, 2016Animation/Talking Supermarket Produce
The most demented premise of the year – an animated film about the lives of the talking produce in a supermarket. This is crude, rude and guaranteed to offend (as might be expected from a Seth Rogen penned vehicle); it is also one of the funniest and cleverest films of the year
Tragedy Girls (2017)
Jul 25, 2022Teen Girls on a Killing Spree/Black Comedy
Darkly funny comedy where two girls in high school conduct a series of murders to create publicity for their true crime blog
Dolittle (2020)
Feb 29, 2020Doctor That Can Speak to Animals
This revival of the classic children's character who can speak to animals took a critical battering but I kind of liked it. It has a completely madcap slapstick tone and more crucially returns to the stories and banishes any bad memory of Eddie Murphy
Songbird (2020)
Sep 26, 2021Plague-Ridden Future
Film shot during the pandemic lockdown from Michael Bay’s production company set in a future where Covid has become even more virulent
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020)
Jan 16, 2022Kid Detective and His Imaginary Polar Bear Companion
This must have been a marketing nightmare for Disney – a film about a kid who operates as a private detective along with his polar bear imaginary companion. The result has an oddball charm
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)
Aug 14, 2023Psychic Powered Waif
Ana Lily Amirpour, director of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, returns with a film about a psychic girl and the eccentric grifters that accumulate around her
Toy Story 5 (2026)
Aug 29, 2026Pixar Animation/The Secret Life of Toys
It does seem precious the world’s leading computer animation company making a film about reliance on e-devices. Nevertheless, Pixar manages to wring something new out of the Toy Story franchise