Alex Diakun Archives

Firebird 2015 AD (1980)

Rating: ★

Nov 26, 2005Car Races in a Dystopian Future

Canadian film set in a dystopian future where private use of cars has been banned and Darren McGavin is among the aging car aficionado who race custom cars in defiance of the authorities

Director: David M. Robertson

Actors: Darren McGavin, Doug McClure, Robert Wisden, Alex Diakun, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 November 20051 February 2026 by Roog

The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

Rating: ★

Sep 24, 2008The X Files Film Spinoff/Psychic Priest/Organ Harvesting

The second theatrical spinoff from The X Files, a dismally dull entry where one wonders how the people who created one of the great tv shows of the 1990s got it all wrong

Director: Chris Carter

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 September 20083 November 2022 by Roog

Alice (2009)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 17, 2011SF Version of Alice in Wonderland

Following on from his reworking of The Wizard of Oz in Tin Man, this is a tv mini-series where Nick Willing rather fascinatingly reinterprets Alice in Wonderland in SF terms

Director: Nick Willing

Actors: Caterina Scorsone, Andrew Lee Potts, Matt Frewer, Kathy Bates, …

Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

17 February 20117 November 2025 by Roog

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010)

Rating: ★★

Sep 25, 2013Teenage Werewolf/Children's Film

Entirely unrelated to the forgettable 1973 film, this is a children's film for the Nickelodeon Channel. Merely adequate but no more. Brooke Shields seems to be having the time of her life vamping it up with Bela Lugosi accent

Director: Eric Bross

Actors: Victoria Justice, Brooke Shields, Chase Ellison, Matt Winston, …

Category: Horror

25 September 201328 December 2025 by Roog