Chris Ellis Archives

Apollo 13 (1995)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 31, 2000True-Life Space Mission Disaster

Probably the best among Ron Howard's mostly undistinguished films, a dramatisation of the real-life Apollo 13 space mission disaster. Once the film gets the capsule up into orbit, the drama is gripping

Director: Ron Howard

Actors: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 July 20005 July 2026 by Roog

The Watcher (2000)

Rating: ★★

Sep 10, 2000Serial Killer Thriller

Serial killer thriller that is built around the stunt casting of Keanu Reeves as the killer

Director: Joe Charbanic

Actors: Keanu Reeves, James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Chris Ellis, …

Category: Horror

10 September 200025 October 2022 by Roog

G-Force (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 20, 2009Talking Guinea Pig Secret Agents

Imagine a Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible spy caper played out with talking guinea pigs. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, no less, this offers appealingly energetic silliness

Director: Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr.

Actors: Zach Galifianakis, Bill Nighy, Will Arnett, Kelli Garner, …

Category: Fantasy

20 October 200911 July 2026 by Roog

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 19, 2012Comic-Book Superhero

The Dark Knight is a hard act to follow and Christopher Nolan almost does but not quite. The story keeps Batman off-screen for half the film. Tom Hardy's Bane dominates the show, while Catwoman is surprisingly subdued

Director: Christopher Nolan

Actors: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, …

Category: Fantasy

19 July 201227 February 2026 by Roog

Jessabelle (2014)

Rating: ★★

Dec 7, 2014Haunted Southern Home

Ghost story from one of the directors of the Saw sequels that settles in with halfway reasonable build-up, before being killed off by an improbable left field twist ending

Director: Kevin Greutert

Actors: Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, David Andrews, Joelle Carter, …

Category: Horror

7 December 201413 May 2026 by Roog

Amelia 2.0 (2017)

Rating: ★½

Jul 10, 2019Mind Upload Into an Android Body

The theme of Mind Upload is waiting for the one film to come along and define its theme. This, in which a comatose wife's body is loaded into an android body, is not that film and only reaches for cliches

Director: Adam Orton

Actors: Ed Begley Jr, Angela Billman, Ben Whitehair, Kate Vernon, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 July 201916 November 2025 by Roog