Night Watch (2004)
Jan 27, 2006Supernatural War
An amazing breakout hit from Russia, a film that is busy to the point of overcrowding with ideas and its’ director’s visual excess but delivers the goods in ways that make your jaw drop
Timur Bekmambetov
Day Watch (2006)
Aug 17, 2007Night Watch Sequel/Supernatural War
Timur Bekmambetov's sequel to Night Watch comes with a much better budget and the same wild visuals, although is slightly the lesser film
Wanted (2008)
Oct 9, 2008Super-Assassins/Action
The film that Hitman should have been concerning a secret world of super-powered assassins, revved up by out of this world visuals from Timur Bekmambetov
9 (2009)
Nov 2, 2009Animation/Post-Holocaust Dolls vs Evil Machines
Extraordinary animated film from Shane Acker concerning the lives of a series of stitchpunk dolls as they try to make sense of the world in the aftermath of civilisation
Apollo 18 (2011)
Sep 9, 2011NASA Moon Landing/Alien Possession Found Footage Film
Clever and well made Found Footage film about a NASA crew encountering something alien on The Moon's surface. Falls somewhere between Alien, Apollo 13 and Paranormal Activity
The Darkest Hour (2011)
Jan 20, 2012Alien Invasion
An alien invasion film set in Moscow. This is nothing more than a special effects vehicle about how the culturally self-absorbed twentysomething computer geeks and party girls save the world
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2012)
Jul 10, 2012Secret History
Seth Grahame-Smith's original book was a witty historical joke that retold the events of Lincoln's life as a secret history involving vampires. The film somehow misses the joke and turns everything into a ridiculously over-the-top action film
Unfriended (2014)
Apr 19, 2015Supernatural Retribution Across Social Media
One of the most unique films one has seen in some time – everything takes place across social media (chat sessions, video calls) where the cinema screen is the computer screen. A fairly average supernatural retribution story (albeit tied to cyberbullying) that generates reasonable tension
Hardcore Henry (2015)
Apr 16, 2016Cyborg/First Person Action Film
The most intense kick of pure adrenaline in some time. Imagine a version of The Six Million Dollar Man shot First Person Shooter style by hyper-adrenalised parkour junkies dragging the audience through a series of death-defying stunts
Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
Apr 28, 2019Found Footage/Darkweb Snuff Filmmaking Group
Unfriended had a unique novelty approach - everything took place in one take where the film screen was a computer screen. You wonder what a sequel can add to this. The surprise is that we get a film even better than the original
Resurrected (2023)
Dec 10, 2023Resurrection Process
This has a fascinating premise where the Catholic Church develops a resurrection process, before one priest starts to see a darker conspiracy beneath
War of the Worlds (2025)
Aug 15, 2025Alien Invasion/Modernised H.G. Wells Adaptation
An adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic alien invasion novel modernised into the era of mass data surveillance, social media and Amazon delivery drivers