Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Apr 12, 2003Surreal Musical Comedy
Woody Allen makes a musical. It is Allen in a much lighter mood than he was in the early 1990s and the film comes with some appealingly eccentric and often downright surreal touches
Natasha Lyonne
Modern Vampires (1998)
Apr 7, 2001Vampires
Richard Elfman film about chic vampires who have become an elite living in Hollywood. Despite promise and some interesting ideas, this is ruined by an atrociously overacting cast
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)
Aug 7, 2000Modernised Hansel and Gretel/Juvenile Delinquent Drama
Matthew Bright's even better sequel to Freeway where he conducts an outrageous and quite brilliant modernisation of Hansel and Gretel now recast with two juvenile delinquents on the run
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Dec 28, 2001Time Travel Romance
Lightweight and likeable Meg Ryan romcom in which she is romanced by a chivalrous and perfectly mannered Hugh Jackman travelled through time from the 19th Century
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Jul 8, 2001Genre Spoof
The first of the Scary Movie sequels where the Wayans Brothers extend the gag beyond the slasher movie to take on the ghost story and exorcism film while aiming squarely for Lowest Common Denominator in sophomoric humour
Blade Trinity (2004)
Jan 6, 2005Comic-Book Vampire Hunter
Third of the Blade films with Wesley Snipes. As director, series screenwriter David S. Goyer emulates the same exhilarating, kinetic moves that Guillermo Del Toro infused the second film with, while the script zings with his wryly cynical dialogue
Robots (2005)
Apr 11, 2005Animation/Cute Robots
Enjoyably likeable animated film from Blue Sky Studios set in a world inhabited by robots. Lots of visual invention and madcap slapstick
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
Sep 3, 2012End of the World
Abel Ferrara makes an End of the World film that hardly ever leaves the characters' apartment and in which almost nothing happens. Considering the angry, bleak work of his heyday, you cannot wonder if the 60 year-old Ferrara has lost his mojo
The Rambler (2013)
Sep 28, 2022Surreal Road Movie
A man just out of jail leaves his wife after an argument and starts hitch-hiking. And then things start to get really weird
Yoga Hosers (2016)
Nov 26, 2016Slacker Comedy/Cloned Miniature Nazi Soldiers
Kevin Smith's follow-up to Tusk slides off the cliff somewhere between Johnny Depp's incredibly silly performance, a nemesis you can't take seriously and what largely becomes a vanity exercise in nepotism – Smith and Depp creating a vehicle to highlight their daughters
Jack Goes Home (2016)
Mar 31, 2017Weird/Disturbing Journey Back Home
Actor Thomas Dekker directs a film in which Rory Culkin travels home for a funeral and finds disturbing revelations about his past. This feels like one of Richard Bates (Excision, Trash Fire) Jr's black comedies of middle-class disaffection but circles weird happenings without going anywhere
Antibirth (2016)
Jan 25, 2018Stoner Chick's Mutant Impregnation
This has cult midnight hit written over it. It's a loopy trip into people doing drugs, alien impregnation and government conspiracy that should have been quirky and funny but sort of goes asleep at the wheel
DC League of Super Pets (2022)
Sep 4, 2022Animation/DC Comics Superhero Pets
Superheroes have overrun screens. It is starting to seem a little too much when we now get a film about animal superheroes who form their own Justice League
Smurfs (2025)
Sep 7, 2025Animation/Cute Blue-Skinned Creatures
An animated revival of The Smurfs. This was greeted with a very divided reception. With a massive celebrity voice line-up packed into almost any corner of the film the casting director can manage
The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
Oct 4, 2025Comic-Book Superheroes
At long last after several other film incarnations that went nowhere, Marvel’s First Family make their first appearance in The MCU. The film creates a wonderful retro world of 1960s futurism based on their original comic-books for them to inhabit