Resurrection (1980)
Feb 7, 2001Faith Healer
Slow sincere film in which Ellen Burstyn becomes a faith healer following a car crash
Sam Shepard
The Right Stuff (1983)
Aug 26, 2002Story of the True Life Space Mission
Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the astronauts of the Mercury Space Program comes out halfway between admiration of the sheer ballsiness of the astronauts and buying into the flag-waving nationalism the Space Race represented.
Hamlet (2000)
Jun 17, 2000Modernised Shakespeare Adaptation
The always interesting Michael Almereyda conducts a modernised version of the Shakespeare play where Ethan Hawke’s angst-ridden anguish at inheriting a corporation plays out against a barrage of modern media
The Pledge (2001)
Jan 19, 2001Psycho-Thriller
Slow and subtle Sean Penn directed thriller where Jack Nicholson plays a retired detective haunted by a child murder case
Stealth (2005)
Oct 6, 2005Artifically Intelligent Fighter Plane Amok
Action film about an artificially intelligent fighter plane that goes amok. Rob Cohen directs in all the cliches of the genre and the seeming need to have something spectacular happening every few minutes
Charlotte’s Web (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Talking Barnyard Animals
Charlotte's Web gets the Babe treatment and is turned into a live-action film with CGI barnyard animals and name actors. Here the enormous charms of the original are replaced by cute and mawkish cues
The Return (2006)
Nov 3, 2007Haunting
Ghost story in which Sarah Michelle Gellar receives a series of mysterious visions as she travels across Texas
Midnight Special (2016)
Apr 9, 2016Gifted Otherworldly Child
This feels like a reworking of late 70s/early 80s sf films like Starman and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Much of the film is based around a series of amazing happenings but its crucial failure as science-fiction is the lack of explanations for why these are happening