Life Among the Cannibals (1996)

Life Among the Cannibals (1996)
Rating: ★★
Oct 18, 2004Black Comedy/Psycho Next-Door Neighbour
From the director of the Xtro films, a black comedy that feels like a wannabe Coen Brothers film. Set among various Hollywood hangers-on, this starts with a surreal bizarreness that collapses into raucous farce

In/Sight (2011)

In/Sight (2011)
Rating: ★★
Mar 2, 2017Clairvoyance Thriller
There are few fantastic themes more tired than the clairvoyant thriller – it is no more than a standard murder mystery where the Sherlock Holmes figure psychically intuits all their deductions and no more than that. Apart from a couple of interesting twists at the end, this is no different

Justice League: Doom (2012)

Justice League: Doom (2012)
Rating: ★★
May 7, 2012Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
A relative disappointment among the mostly excellent animated DC superhero films, this offers up far too diagrammatic and dramatically underdeveloped a pitting of each Justice League member with a matching super-villain only to seemingly kill them off

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
Rating: ★★
Sep 13, 2015Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes
Not so much a Justice League film as an Aquaman origin film, which at least conducts a character oft regard as a DC laughing stock with suitable dignity. I'm not a big fan of The New 52 continuity rewrite and this follows suit with fairly middling results