Jesse Plemons Archives

Like Mike (2002)

Rating: ★½

Apr 29, 2014Kid Finds Magic Basketball Sneakers

Utterly insipid family film about an orphan kid who is given a magical set of sneakers that turn him into a basketball star who is "like Mike [Jordan]." Little more than a glorified commercial for the NBA

Director: John Schultz

Actors: Lil Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Crispin Glover, …

Category: Fantasy

29 April 201427 June 2026 by Roog

Paul (2011)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 27, 2011Science-Fiction Fans Encounter an Alien Comedy

Hilarious Simon Pegg-written homage to science-fiction fandom and alien visitor cinema. imagine Starman recast with two science-fiction fans and tv's sarcastically wisecracking ALF (voiced by Seth Rogen)

Director: Greg Mottola

Actors: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 March 201116 January 2023 by Roog

Battleship (2012)

Rating: ★

May 17, 2012US Navy vs Alien Invaders/Boardgame Adaptation

Adaptation of the Battleship boardgame that feels like wannabe Michael Bay. Think Pearl Harbor mashed up with a Transformers film and much bone-headed glorification of American militarism

Director: Peter Berg

Actors: Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 May 201219 September 2026 by Roog

The Master (2012)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 27, 2012L. Ron Hubbard Fictionalised Biopic

Paul Thomas Anderson's loose biopic of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is a film of great acting and fine individual scenes more than it ever coheses as a story or analyses its characters

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 September 201226 September 2026 by Roog

The Discovery (2017)

Rating: ★★

Oct 30, 2017Scientific Proof of the Afterlife

Robert Redford plays a scientist who finds proof of the existence of the afterlife only to then face a worldwide rash of suicides. From the director of the fascinatingly weird The One I Love

Director: Charlie McDowell

Actors: Jason Segel, Robert Redford, Rooney Mara, Jesse Plemons, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 October 201728 January 2026 by Roog

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 12, 2020Surrealism and Identity Blurring

Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending, head-scratcher about road trips, weird dinner conversations and shifting identity blurrings as what we assume become increasingly more surreal as the film goes on

Director: Charlie Kaufman

Actors: Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Colette, David Thewlis, …

Category: Fantasy

12 September 202010 April 2026 by Roog

Jungle Cruise (2021)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 7, 2021Adventure Film

The long-delayed film based on the Disney theme park ride is an assemblage of cliches from various adventure films but ends up being far more enjoyable than it has any right to be

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, …

Category: Fantasy

7 August 202116 May 2026 by Roog

Antlers (2021)

Rating: ★★

Dec 26, 2021Wendigo Creature

A film about a series of murders around a town committed by a wendigo. This comes backed by some impressive names including Guillermo Del Toro and David S. Goyer

Director: Scott Cooper

Actors: Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Scott Haze, …

Category: Horror

26 December 202127 August 2026 by Roog

Civil War (2024)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 8, 2024US Social Collapse

Alex Garland is one of the most interesting creative names out there in the genre at the moment. Here he offers a frightening depiction of a near future USA collapsed into civil war

Director: Alex Garland

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 June 20242 January 2026 by Roog

Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 13, 2024Black Comedy Anthology

Yorgos Lanthimos has become a critically celebrated name in recent years. Here he has made an anthology of three surreal tales that come in his customary black deadpan

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Actors: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, …

Category: Fantasy

13 September 202411 June 2026 by Roog

Bugonia (2025)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 6, 2025CEO Imprisoned By Someone Who Insists They are an Alien

Yorgos Lanthimos has become a director of acclaim in recent years. Here he remakes the Korean film Save the Green Planet where crazy conspiracy theorist Jesse Plemons abducts CEO Emma Stone insisting she is an alien

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Actors: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 December 202525 April 2026 by Roog