The Final Destination
The fourth entry in New Line Cinema’s health and safety lecture series opens with a pile-up at a stock car race that foreshadows the car crash to come. After scaling […]
Tag Archives: 2000s
Collateral
Fare meters meet 9mms in Michael Mann’s 2004 action movie about a Los Angeles cabbie (Jamie Foxx) who unknowingly picks up a hitman (Tom Cruise). Along with films like Panic […]
Final Destination 3
After sitting out the sequel, series creator James Wong is back in the director’s chair for another Final Destination outing, and this time some unsuspecting high school kids are off […]
Hostel
A pair of horny US college students (Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson) go backpacking across Europe and end up in a Slovakian slaughterhouse, in this 2005 torture porno they should have […]
Paranormal Activity
A wealthy couple buys a camera to track paranormal activity in their massive house in Oren Peli’s 2007 snooze he should have called The Rich Bore Project. If The Blair […]
Pulse
Ghosts enter the living world through the internet in this 2001 J-horror they should have called Ghostbuffers. Pulse emerges from the techno-paranoid wellspring of 1998 classic Ring, updating its supernatural […]
Gladiator
Betrayed by the conniving Emperor Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) is sold into glad rags like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Conan the Barbarian and Anakin Skywalker before him. […]
Signs
Mel Gibson plays a dad, priest and farmer visited by aliens in this 2002 M. Night Shyamalan flick he should have called Father Father Farmer Sky. This farm-based thriller finds […]
Freddy vs. Jason
New Line and Paramount had been threatening to make a crossover Freddy vs. Jason movie since 1987, meaning they had 16 years to think of a way to get the […]
Gosford Park
Aristocrats gather at a country house for a spot of pheasant plucking in this 2001 drama, until their shooting weekend becomes a poisoning investigation. Directed by Robert Altman, this 1930s […]
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