David Johansen Archives

Gandahar (1988)

Rating: ★★

Jun 19, 2005Animation/Planetary Adventure

The final film of French animator Rene Laloux, a planetary adventure where Laloux delights in creating exotically trippy aliens and landscapes. Released in English as Light Years with an Isaac Asimov script

Director: Rene Laloux

Actors: Jennifer Grey, Christopher Plummer, Glenn Close, Penn Jillette, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 June 20058 September 2026 by Roog

Scrooged (1988)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 2004Modernised A Christmas Carol

A modernised version of A Christmas Carol that seems to have been construed in the shadow of Ghostbusters right down to casting Bill Murray as Scrooge

Director: Richard Donner

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, …

Category: Fantasy

1 June 200426 August 2021 by Roog

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 21, 2001Horror Anthology

Film spinoff from the Tales from the Darkside tv series, this is an anthology of three horror tales, the result is a surprisingly slick and well made film

Director: John Harrison

Actors: Christian Slater, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Deborah Harry, …

Category: Horror

21 March 200116 March 2024 by Roog

Freejack (1992)

Rating: ★

Oct 19, 2002Future Body-Snatching/Time Travel

Emilio Estevez is snatched into the future and pursued for his body by bounty hunter Mick Jagger in an SF film that makes no sense at all. A film more worth watching for some bizarrely awful performances

Director: Geoff Murphy

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 October 200220 March 2024 by Roog

Above the Shadows (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 5, 2021Invisible Girl

A unique and highly original take on the invisibility film where Olivia Thirlby becomes invisible because people no longer notice her until she meets one person who does

Director: Claudia Myers

Actors: Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Megan Fox, Jim Gaffigan, …

Category: Fantasy

5 April 20216 November 2025 by Roog