Derrick O'Connor Archives

The Final Programme (1974)

Rating: ★★

Sep 23, 2000Spy Capers in an Entropic Future/Michael Moorcock Adaptation

Michael Moorcock's psychedelic adventurer hero Jerry Cornelius gets a disappointing film adaptation here. There are imaginative sets but the plot plays out as a pedestrian spy thriller

Director: Robert Fuest

Actors: Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Derrick O'Connor, Graham Crowden, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 September 200014 February 2026 by Roog

Early Stephen Sommers film that feels like it has been mounted as Alien meets Titanic. Between the ridiculous one-dimensional writing and Sommers’ CGI overkill, this heads well into bad movie material

Director: Stephen Sommers

Actors: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Anthony Heald, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 February 200317 January 2026 by Roog

End of Days (1999)

Rating: ★

Dec 1, 1999The Devil Returns to Earth at The Millennium/Action Film

Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on The Devil on the eve of the millennium. This is essentially The Omen and one of its ilk having been reworked as a mindless big-budget action and effects movie

Director: Peter Hyams

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, …

Category: Horror

1 December 199931 January 2026 by Roog

Daredevil (2003)

Rating: ★★

Apr 12, 2003Blind Comic-Book Superhero

One of the early efforts among the surge of Marvel Comics adaptations on the big screen in the early 2000s. A disappointing adaptation that feels more like a series of posed comic-book panels than it ever does a movie

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, …

Category: Fantasy

12 April 200325 April 2025 by Roog