Cameron Diaz Archives

The Mask (1994)

Rating: ★★

Sep 11, 2004Zany Comic-Book Superhero

Comic-book adaptation featuring a ballistically OTT Jim Carrey who becomes a zany figure of chaos whenever he puts on a mask. The film has been designed to emulate cartoon physics but its lack of any grounding reality proves annoying

Director: Chuck Russell

Actors: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Greene, Peter Riegert, …

Category: Fantasy

11 September 20046 July 2023 by Roog

A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 20, 2009Kidnapping & Angelic Intervention Comedy

Danny Boyle eccentricity with Ewan McGregor as an inept kidnapper and Cameron Diaz as his more astute abductee. A head-scratching comedy that also throws gun-toting angels into the mix

Director: Danny Boyle

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, …

Category: Fantasy

20 February 200920 September 2019 by Roog

There’s Something About Mary (1998)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 19, 2000Stalker Black Comedy

The Farrelly Brothers have become known for their crude and rude humour but this stalker comedy is one they hit with all barrels firing and has become regarded as a modern comedy classuc

Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Actors: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, …

Category: Horror

19 September 200011 April 2025 by Roog

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 8, 1999Portal Into Actor's Head/Absurdism

Hilariously eccentric Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman collaboration in which John Cusack finds an office building that has a portal that takes someone through into actor John Malkovich's head. The wacky spins that the script places on the idea are ingenious

Director: Spike Jonze

Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich, Catherine Keener, …

Category: Fantasy

8 December 19997 September 2025 by Roog

Shrek (2001)

Rating: ★★★★

May 22, 2001Animation/Fairytale Spoof

Before this was spun out into a series of ho-hum sequels, the original was an animated film that burst with a freshness and a series of winning voice characterisations

Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, …

Category: Fantasy

22 May 200113 August 2021 by Roog

Vanilla Sky (2001)

Rating: ★★★½

Dec 14, 2001Reality Bender

The English-language remake of Open Your Eyes, starring Tom Cruise. The Spanish version is still the superior of the two but this stays surprisingly faithful to the original

Director: Cameron Crowe

Actors: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 December 200110 November 2020 by Roog

Shrek 2 (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jul 5, 2004Animation/Fairytale Spoof

Shrek was a fresh and original hit. The first of four insipid sequels, this seems to merely coast by on our liking of the characters while upping the fairytale parody

Director: Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon, Kelly Asbury

Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

5 July 20045 December 2024 by Roog

Shrek the Third (2007)

Rating: ★★

Jun 24, 2007Animation/Fairytale Spoof

The third of the Shrek films settles in with a formulaic blandness where the characters turn up more because everyone expects them to than the film finds much for them to do

Director: Chris Miller, Raman Hui

Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

24 June 20077 September 2025 by Roog

The Box (2009)

Rating: ★

Nov 14, 2009Mysterious Stranger Offers Couple a Terrible Choice

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly adapts a Richard Matheson story about a couple who are offered a terrible choice by a stranger but delivers a bafflingly incomprehensible film

Director: Richard Kelly

Actors: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Holmes Osborne, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 November 200930 June 2025 by Roog

Shrek Forever After (2010)

Rating: ★

Jun 19, 2010Animation/Fairytale Spoof

The fourth of the Shrek films. By this point, the freshness and originality of the first film has been buried under animated film formula, while the plot is a tired rehash of It's a Wonderful Life

Director: Mike Mitchell

Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas, …

Category: Fantasy

19 June 20105 December 2024 by Roog

The Green Hornet (2011)

Rating: ★

Jan 14, 2011Masked Superhero

The long-planned big screen adaptation of the popular radio and tv masked hero becomes a disaster by placing the script in the hands of a badly miscast star Seth Rogen who plays everything for comedy

Director: Michel Gondry

Actors: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 January 201129 June 2026 by Roog

A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman (2012)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 26, 2012Absurdist Animated Biopic

The death of Graham Chapman put paid to a Monty Python reunion. Undeterred, Chapman's autobiography is bought to life as an animated film in the gonzo Python style with the remaining Pythons providing voice work

Director: Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson

Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, …

Category: Fantasy

26 October 201219 June 2026 by Roog