Frank Whaley 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

Little Monsters (1989)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 1, 2001Secret World of Monsters Under the Bed

A very likeable children's film about a boy befriending the monsters under his bed. Made with a gleefully malicious anarchy and some great creature effects

Director: Richard Alan Greenberg

Actors: Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Ben Savage, Daniel Stern, …

Category: Fantasy

1 March 20015 July 2026 by Roog

Broken Arrow (1995)

Rating: ★★

Aug 25, 2002Action/Nuclear Hijacking

John Woo's second Hollywood film, an action film about nuclear hijacking. Woo's unique stylistics promptly get buried under the machinery of big-budget action filmmaking

Director: John Woo

Actors: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Bob Gunton, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 August 20029 March 2020 by Roog

Retroactive (1997)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 4, 2000Timeloop

Modest and halfway reasonable variant on Groundhog Day with a group of people caught in the same loop of time where everything manages to go wrong each time

Director: Louis Morneau

Actors: Kylie Travis, Frank Whaley, Shannon Whirry, Sherman Howard, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 November 200027 February 2025 by Roog

Red Dragon (2002)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 1, 2002Hannibal Lecter Prequel

Following the success of the Hannibal Lecter films, Dino de Laurentiis smartly repackaged Thomas Harris's earlier novel as a Hannibal Lecter prequel

Director: Brett Ratner

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, …

Category: Horror

1 November 200213 February 2021 by Roog

Vacancy (2007)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 15, 2008Remote Motel Torture and Sadism

A reasonable film clearly influenced by Hostel with Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale as a married couple who sign into a backroads motel used to shoot snuff movies

Director: Nimrod Antal

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry, …

Category: Horror

15 June 200819 June 2026 by Roog

The Cell 2 (2009)

Rating: ★

May 16, 2013Psychic Link with a Serial Killer

Sequel to Tarsem Singh's The Cell that feels made by people who haven't even seen the original. The original's fascinating journey into dream terrain is replaced by a dull psychic with a link to a serial killer plot

Director: Tim Iocafano

Actors: Tessie Santiago, Frank Whaley, Chris Bruno, Bart Johnson, …

Category: Horror

16 May 20136 October 2025 by Roog

Monster Trucks (2016)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 8, 2017Creatures Inhabit Vehicles

You can almost see the process in the scriptwriters head "What if we had Monster Truck rallies where the trucks were actual monsters?". Way more entertaining than you ever expect it to be

Director: Chris Wedge

Actors: Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Rob Lowe, Thomas Lennon, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 April 20179 July 2026 by Roog