Beowulf (1999)
Jan 15, 2001Epic Legend
An adaptation of the classic epic legend Beowulf that bizarrely recasts the story as a Christopher Lambert-starring action movie and sets it in a post-apocalyptic future
Rhona Mitra
Hollow Man (2000)
Aug 6, 2000Invisible Maniac
Paul Verhoeven uses CGI effects to revamp the invisible man film with amazing results. On the other hand, Verhoeven’s penchant for sex and violence overkill quickly emerges with distasteful results
Highwaymen (2004)
Feb 11, 2025Cat and Mouse Game with a Killer on the Backroads
Robert Harmon made the classic The Hitcher, but failed to ever follow up on it. This is the sole work that ever came close – a beautifully tense series of psychological games between Jim Caviezel and a motorised killer on the backroads
Skinwalkers (2006)
Mar 7, 2009Werewolves
Big-budget revival of the werewolf film set amongst warring werewolf clans. Produced by Stan Winston
The Number 23 (2007)
Feb 3, 2008Numerological Obsession and Paranoia/Reality Bender
Demented Joel Schumacher film in which Jim Carrey sees occurrences of the number 23 everywhere and finds his life is being predicted by a book. Featuring one of the most absurd scripts ever written
Doomsday (2008)
Nov 22, 2008Plague Ravaged Future Wasteland/Action
Immensely satisfying film from Neil Marshall set in a walled-off, post-pandemic Scotland where he seems to have set out to pay homage to sf/action films like Escape from New York and Mad Max 2
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
Mar 20, 2009Vampire-Werewolf War
Third of the Underworld films, a prequel to the previous entries. In truth, it is just the same as the others - lots of kinetic action moves and Gothic poses with little in the way of plot
Hard Target 2 (2016)
Jan 1, 2017Human Hunting for Sport/Action
Hard Target was one of Jean-Claude Van Damme's better films, featuring an on-fire John Woo as director. While most have forgotten it, we get a sequel here that copycats Woo's moves to a point of tedium
Archive (2020)
Feb 26, 2021Mind Upload Into an Android Body
One of the better in the fad for Artificial Intelligence films we have had since the 2010s with Theo James trying to place his late wife’s consciousness into an android body
Red Sonja (2025)
Sep 19, 2025Warrior Woman/Sword and Sorcery
Following the disastrous Brigitte Nielsen film, a new version of Robert E. Howard’s Amazonian warrior woman has been promised since the late 2000s. It finally emerges here from the same people behind the revivals of Hellboy and the Jason Momoa starring Conan