Unstoppable
After Randy from My Name Is Earl (Ethan Suplee) loses control of an unmanned freight train full of toxic chemicals, it is up to veteran railroad engineer Frank (Denzel Washington) […]
Tag Archives: 2010
Saw 3D
A film with two inaccurate titles, Saw 3D AKA Saw: The Final Chapter is no longer in 3D and has as much claim to finality as Friday the 13th: The […]
Buried
In this 2010 thriller, terrorists do to Ryan Reynolds what anyone who has seen Green Lantern wishes they could: bury him alive in the desert. Hollywood has long been obsessed […]
Devil
Five strangers are trapped in a lift where one of them is the actual Devil, in this M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller they should have called Hellevator. Shyamalan opted not to […]
13 Assassins
It is testament to the grandeur of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai that even its remakes get remakes (there are two Magnificent Sevens and two 13 Assassins) while the original title […]
How to Train Your Dragon
Some very Scottish vikings live in a constant state of war with the dragons breathing down their necks, until the chief’s son (Jay Baruchel) encounters a peaceful dragon and proves […]
Resident Evil: Afterlife
As if our collective intelligence wasn’t already being insulted on a daily basis by press conferences about a deadly virus delivered by a shambling humanoid doberman, the Resident Evil franchise is […]
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
An innocent fishing trip turns into an accidental bloodbath in this 2010 horror/comedy they should have called The Cabin in the Whoops. Probably the most interesting slasher flick since Scream, […]
As Good as Dead
The eminently torturable Cary Elwes is targeted by neo-Nazis in Jonathan Mossek’s As Good as Dead. This thankless thriller opened on a single screen in 2010, back when Nazism was […]
Arrietty
Studio Ghibli shrinks to Studio Gimli in this 2010 Borrowers adaptation. Ghibli is all about detail, making Mary Norton’s diminutive classic the perfect playground for the anime giant’s miniaturised magic. […]
