Abbey Lee Archives

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Rating: ★★★★½

May 16, 2015Post-Holocaust Action

30 years in the making and the results are sensational. An action film so relentlessly foot-to-the-floor and full of kinetic wildness that it blows all its contemporaries away and sets the bar anew

Director: George Miller

Actors: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 May 20152 August 2026 by Roog

The Neon Demon (2016)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 3, 2016Horror Film in the L.A. Modelling World

Nicolas Winding Refn makes a horror film set in the L.A. modelling world. A film of hypnotic surfaces that glitter with a troubling undertow, the result is like Valley of the Dolls as remade by Dario Argento

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Actors: Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Karl Glusman, Bella Heathcoate, …

Category: Horror

3 July 201617 January 2025 by Roog

Gods of Egypt (2016)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 5, 2016Ancient Egyptian Mythology

This could be considered the Michael Bay version of Ancient Egyptian mythology, a film buried under numbing CGI overkill. For all that, Alex Proyas gives it a loopy grandeur that you can't entirely dislike

Director: Alex Proyas

Actors: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Elodie Yung, …

Category: Fantasy

5 March 201624 February 2026 by Roog

The Dark Tower (2017)

Rating: ★

Oct 21, 2017Stephen King Adaptation/Portal to a Parallel World

Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman gives us an utterly mangled version of Stephen King's Dark Tower series that has little resemblance to the books, yet makes little sense if you haven't read them

Director: Nikolaj Arcel

Actors: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Abbey Lee, …

Category: Fantasy

21 October 201725 January 2026 by Roog

Elizabeth Harvest (2018)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 23, 2019Cloned Woman

A novel take on the story of Bluebeard who forbids his wives to enter a room and kills them when they do. Here Bluebeard is a scientist who keeps cloning the same wife over. A sophisticated and intelligent film full of sharp and intriguing twists

Director: Sebastian Gutierrez

Actors: Abbey Lee, Ciaran Hinds, Matthew Beard, Carla Gugino, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 August 201917 October 2025 by Roog

Old (2021)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 1, 2021Beach Where People Rapidly Age

M. Night Shyamalan gets more of a bad rap than he is due. I am happy to argue that this, which is set around a beach where people rapidly age, is one of his best films to date

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

1 October 20215 September 2024 by Roog