Bob Peck Archives

Edge of Darkness (1985)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 1, 2008Nuclear Power/Environmental Thriller

One of the great tv series of the 1980s, a powerful and incisive snapshot of Thatcherite England, the backroom politics of the nuclear power industry and the environmentalist movement. A brilliantly written show featuring great performances

Director: Martin Campbell

Actors: Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley, Charles Kay, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 February 200817 October 2025 by Roog

Slipstream (1989)

Rating: ★★

Jan 20, 2001Post-Holocaust Adventure

The only film that Steven Lisberger made after Tron. Though impressively cast and with a decent budget, it is an oddly unconvincing effort that tells the story of an android's quest across a post-apocalyptic world

Director: Steven Lisberger

Actors: Bill Paxton, Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Kitty Aldridge, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 January 200111 December 2025 by Roog

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Rating: ★

Dec 18, 2011Reversion to Barbarism

Remake of William Golding’s classic work about boys stranded on a desert island descending into barbarism where the book is disastrously Americanised in a clodding adaptation that misses the original’s rich swim of symbolism

Director: Harry Hook

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale, Bob Peck

Category: Science Fiction

18 December 201123 February 2026 by Roog

Jurassic Park (1993)

Rating: ★★★★

May 9, 2001Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok

An enormous hit for Steven Spielberg who took new emergent CGI technologies and wowed audiences with dinosaurs brought to life in dazzlingly realistic detail. It doesn't hurt that he delivers a relentlessly suspenseful film too

Director: Steven Spielberg

Actors: Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 May 200116 May 2026 by Roog

Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 31, 2005Scandanavian Murder Mystery/SF Twist

Adapted from an acclaimed book, Julia Ormond stars as an Icelandic heroine in a detective story with an SF twist

Director: Bille August

Actors: Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Robert Loggia, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 October 20058 July 2025 by Roog

FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 28, 1999Photos of Fairies/"True Story"

A nicely produced film based on the true-life Cottingley Fairies hoax in the 1920s where two girls produced photos supposedly of fairies that convinced some people. Despite the original being a hoax, the film wants to convince us that the fairies were real

Director: Charles Sturridge

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Harvey Keitel, Florence Hoath, Phoebe Nicholls, …

Category: Fantasy

28 October 19991 February 2026 by Roog