Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 16, 2003Time-Travelling Killer Androids
The first sequel to The Terminator where James Cameron et al return with one of the biggest budgets for a film at the time and create something sensational. Cameron harnesses then top-drawer CGI technology to create one of the most original nemeses in any SF film

Apt Pupil (1998)

Apt Pupil (1998)
Rating: ★★
Jun 30, 1999Nazi War Criminal Gives Lessons in Evil
Early Bryan Singer film from a Stephen King novella about the friendship between a boy and an aging Nazi. While well acclaimed, the film never seems to get its relationship right or communicate the true nature of Nazism’s evils

What Lies Beneath (2000)

What Lies Beneath (2000)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 23, 2000Ghost Story
Robert Zemeckis takes on the ghost story with uncommon effectiveness. While this is average on a story level, Zemeckis's directorial approach pushes it to the unnervingly spooky, with the last fifteen minutes being one of the most suspense-filled sequences in recent memory

Paycheck (2003)

Paycheck (2003)
Rating: ★★
Apr 6, 2004Precognition/Action Film/Philip K. Dick Adaptation
This Philip K. Dick adaptation has a great premise – Ben Affleck is an engineer with a blanked memory blanked only to find he has left himself clues from the future of things that are starting to come true. Alas, this is reduced to an action vehicle in the hands of John Woo

Justice League (2017)

Justice League (2017)
Rating: ★★
Dec 30, 2017Comic-Book Superheroes
Zack Snyder completes his run through DC superheroes with mixed results. The introduction of the characters works well but Snyder is far too ready to throw established continuity out the window, while the visual dourness and relentless CGI overkill of the action scenes becomes tedious