Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Jul 3, 2007Haunting
The third of the Urban Legend films, unconnected to any of the previous two. This lamely tries to stretch the thin premise out to a story of high school supernatural vengeance
Kate Mara
Zoom: Academy for Superheroes (2006)
Dec 14, 2008School for Superheroes
Family-friendly superhero film that places more focus on slapstick than superheroics and contains an embarrassing return to the screen for Chevy Chase
Iron Man 2 (2010)
May 21, 2010Comic-Book Superhero
True to typical superhero sequel form, this complicates the original by introducing so many new villains and characters that it becomes an overcrowded narrative juggling act
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
Fantastic Four (2015)
Aug 15, 2015Comic-Book Superheroes
Despite all the hate this received, I am maybe the only person out there that liked this. It is three-quarters of a good film that strips the Four of costumes and tells a character-driven story about people dealing with powers
The Martian (2015)
Oct 24, 2015Astronaut Stranded on Mars
This year's Gravity. A film where you can almost see the writers having the time of their life working out the science to the nth degree (and moreover making it digestible for mass audiences). Ridley Scott rides the dramatic peaks and troughs like a pro and the result is one of the most outrightly enjoyable films in some time
Morgan (2016)
Sep 10, 2016Artificially Intelligent Android
A.I. film directed by Ridley Scott's son. The set-up seems awfully similar to Ex Machina – unfortunately, this sidesteps any of that fascinating questions about A.I. that film dealt in, while the latter half just becomes The Terminator before reaching a frankly unbelievable twist ending that sinks the film