Barb Wire (1996)

Barb Wire (1996)
Rating: ★★
Nov 21, 2003Anarchic Future/Leather-Clad Bimbo
Enjoyably silly comic-book adaptation with a pneumatically-inflated Pamela Anderson playing the titular bounty hunter in an anarchic future. You cannot complain that this is a film that delivers exactly what it promises

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Rating: ★★★½
Oct 9, 2008Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
In the second and the best of his two Hellboy films, Guillermo Del Toro expands the first out with an amazing menagerie of eccentric and offbeat creatures, while Ron Perlman is again on winning form in the title role

R.I.P.D. (2013)

R.I.P.D. (2013)
Rating: ★★
Jul 20, 2013Afterlife Police Force
This feels like someone has simply copied the idea of a secretive law enforcement agency from and substituted the dead escaped from Hell for aliens. The two have remarkably similar story arcs, although this is far more goofily entertaining that the absurdly overblown slapstick that overtook the Men in Black sequels

Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024)

Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 18, 2024Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation
After a disastrous reboot of the Hellboy franchise, Millennium Media get it right by employing the comic’s creator on script, taking the series into wildly creative directions with Hellboy up against Appalachian folk horrors