The Rapture (1991)
Feb 26, 1999The Biblical End of the World
Remarkable film with Mimi Rogers as a grieving widow who is drawn into the certainty that the Biblical Rapture is about to occur
Will Patton
Cold Heaven (1991)
Jul 15, 2024Mysterious Resurrection
Nicolas Roeg was one of the great directors of the 1970s, making works like Performance and Don’t Look Now. This was one of Roeg's last films where Mark Harmon is killed in an accident but makes a miraculous resurrection
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Dec 15, 2007Alien Body Snatchers
This adaptation of the Robert Heinlein novel was not a success when it came out but is a modest addition to the alien body snatchers genre with some undeniably effective moments
Copycat (1995)
May 11, 2003Serial Killer Thriller
Strong and effective serial killer thriller that was overlooked by the success of the same year's much more high profile Se7en. Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter give excellent performances in a finely tuned script
The Postman (1997)
Jan 7, 2011Post-Holocaust
Kevin Costner directs David Brin's post-holocaust tale as an epic Western. Most audiences ridiculed the film's ardent flag-waving but you cannot deny that Costner makes a stirring and undeniably interesting film
Armageddon (1998)
Jul 31, 1999Asteroid on a Collision Course with Earth
A film that relentlessly celebrates its own brainlessness. Michael Bay directs an asteroid collision film amid plenty of loud noise, mass destruction, flag-waving patriotism and resolute heroism
Entrapment (1999)
May 6, 1999Millennial Caper Thriller
Caper thriller with the gimmick of being set on the turning of the millennium, this is otherwise an empty-headed exercise where slick marketing triumphs over credible scripting over even connection between the leads
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Jan 27, 2002Disturbing Prophetic Visions
Genuinely creepy film supposedly based on a true story in which Richard Gere investigates a phenomenon known as the Mothman and starts to receive visions, time blurrings and much in the way of uncanny happenings. A film that leaves you with a sense of something unearthly happening just beyond your grasp
The Punisher (2004)
Jun 15, 2004Comic-Book Vigilante
Amid the huge surge of Marvel Comics adaptations in the early 2000s, there came this version of The Punisher. Cast with Thomas Jane, the film is tepid and singularly lacking in the grim, dark avenging violence of the comic-book
The Fourth Kind (2009)
Dec 16, 2009Alien Abductions/"True Story"
This makes a fictitious claim to be a dramatisation of alien abductions that took place in Alaska. This creates something that is undeniably interesting before shooting itself in the foot by heading into Ancient Astronauts territory
Halloween (2018)
Jan 12, 2019Slasher Film
40 years later, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to pay homage to Halloween in what is a direct sequel to the original, erasing the continuity of every other sequel. This fails to conjure what made the original a classic
Radioflash (2019)
May 10, 2020Socially Catastrophic EMP Burst
Film in which the entire US Western seaboard falls into social chaos after being hit an EMP burst focusing on one girl's journey to safety across anarchic territory
The Forever Purge (2021)
Jul 23, 2021Social Collapse of the USA
In this, the fifth film in The Purge series, the scenario becomes even more interestingly political, becoming a satiric take on MAGA America and the Capitol Riots
Halloween Kills (2021)
Oct 23, 2021Slasher Film
Sequel to the 2018 reboot/sequel to Halloween from David Gordon Greene, this is more scrupulous about paying homage to the original and recapturing something of John Carpenter’s original stylism
Halloween Ends (2022)
Oct 22, 2022Slasher Film
David Gordon Green and Jamie Lee Curtis return to round out their highly underwhelming Halloween reboot trilogy. By now, this feels like a Halloween film in name only