Dwier Brown Archives

Field of Dreams (1989)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 15, 2002Mystical Baseball Field with Ghost Players

Beautiful fantasy where Kevin Costner hears a voice that directs him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield where dead players to return to life. A genteel fantasy filled with nostalgia for lost Americana and the 1960s

Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Actors: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Timothy Busfield, …

Category: Fantasy

15 February 20021 February 2026 by Roog

The Guardian (1990)

Rating: ★★

Dec 13, 2002Sinister Druidic Babysitter

William Friedkin film with Jenny Seagrove as a sinister nanny who is really a baby-snatching druidic tree spirit. Friedkin and all concerned play a B movie idea in remarkably straight face

Director: William Friedkin

Actors: Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell, Brad Hall

Category: Horror

13 December 200228 May 2021 by Roog

Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)

Rating: ★★

Aug 24, 2010Adventures on a Planet of Stupid People Comedy

Films about stupid people are rarely funny - this concerns a whole planet of stupid people. Despite reasonable production values, there is little that raises even a mild smile in this comedic take on Flash Gordon

Director: Greg Beeman

Actors: Jeffrey Jones, Teri Garr, Jon Lovitz, Dwier Brown, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 August 20108 January 2025 by Roog

Without Warning (1994)

Rating: ★★½

Aug 1, 2023Live TV Broadcast/Possible Alien Arrival

Made for the anniversary of the Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast, a tv movie that simulates a a live newscast as alien craft arrive around the world

Director: Robert Iscove

Actors: Jane Kaczmarek, Dwier Brown, James Morrison, Philip Baker Hall, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 August 202318 June 2024 by Roog

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1995)

Rating: ★★

Dec 15, 2005Modernised Fairy-Tale

A modernised version of the Goldilocks fairytale, which now comes with the addition of an environmentalist subplot and where the bears are made into an endangered species

Director: Brent Loefke

Actors: Hanna Hall, Dwier Brown, Bill Cobbs, Leon Russom, …

Category: Fantasy

15 December 200526 February 2026 by Roog