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Writer-director James Cameron’s expensive 1989 sci-fi thriller was a very rare box-office flop for him, taking only $90million worldwide. It’s hard to know quite what went wrong. It looks stunning and the trick work is […]
Panned by critics and weak at the box office, The Host has a host of problems that start with the ponderous, poorly written screenplay and flat direction of Andrew Niccol, struggling to adapt Stephenie (Twilight) […]
Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt form a surprisingly effective tough-guy duo as two futuristic army soldier types defending the planet from aliens in director Doug Liman’s explosive, brainy blockbuster. Somehow, and please don’t ask me […]
‘Look, all I’m asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision.’ Co-producer/director Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film stars Jodie Foster, who plays Dr Ellie Arroway, a young, driven astronomer who receives humankind’s […]
Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere is zany alternative entertainment for cool entertainment folk. James Duval makes an engaging, lost hero as Dark Smith. Writer-director Gregg Araki’s ambitious and successful 1997 movie Nowhere […]
Writer-producer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 2003 screen adaptation (with William Goldman) of the Stephen King novel is brilliantly ambitious and imaginative. Dreamcatcher cleverly combines all King’s usual themes and plotlines. It’s a buddy-buddy flick, paranormal chiller and […]
British director Jonathan Glazer’s loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s 2000 novel is a unique, difficult and quite alienating movie. It’s hard work having a good time with Under the Skin. But Scarlett Johansson impresses enormously […]