Joanna Cassidy Archives

Blade Runner (1982)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jan 8, 2000Cyberpunk Future/Hunt for Escaped Androids

Ridley Scott's film was not a success at the time but has since been regarded as a SF masterpiece, one of the defining screen treatments of android themes while the incredibly dense Cyberpunk vision of the future was copied by many subsequent films

Director: Ridley Scott

Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 January 200027 February 2026 by Roog

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

Rating: ★★★★

May 9, 2001Toon Detective Story

Groundbreaking film that hilariously imagines an alternate world where cartoon characters live alongside humans. The energy and creativity of the film is superlative

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Stubby Kaye, …

Category: Fantasy

9 May 20016 November 2020 by Roog

Wheels of Terror (1990)

Rating: ★★

Aug 10, 2017Road Games with a Killer Car

A blatant copy of Steven Spielberg's Duel in which school bus driver Joanna Cassidy pursues a muscle car with never-seen driver who has abducted her daughter. Two-thirds of the film is taken up by an extended car chase scene where the stunt people seem to be having a field day

Director: Christopher Cain

Actors: Joanna Cassidy, Marcie Leeds, Arlen Dean Snyder

Category: Horror

10 August 201710 January 2024 by Roog

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Rating: ★★

Nov 24, 2002Vampire Comedy

An odd mismatch of talent where Wes Craven directs Eddie Murphy as a vampire who arrives in present-day New York. Craven and Murphy seem to drown either;s distinctive voices out

Director: Wes Craven

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Kadeem Hardison, John Witherspoon, …

Category: Horror

24 November 200220 March 2020 by Roog

Chain Reaction (1996)

Rating: ★★

Mar 15, 2001Techno-Thriller

Thriller with Keanu Reeves wrongfully accused and on the run from authorities in the quest for a process that creates cheap energy from water. A rehash of director Andrew Davis's The Fugitive mostly construed around its set-pieces

Director: Andrew Davis

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 March 200120 July 2024 by Roog

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Rating: ★★

Aug 26, 2001Resurrected Spirits on Mars

John Carpenter returns to cinema screens amid the 2000-1 spate of Mars movies. Despite promise, this ends up being not much more than his early film Assault on Precinct 13 relocated on Mars

Director: John Carpenter

Actors: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Joanna Cassidy, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 August 200126 October 2025 by Roog

The Grudge 2 (2006)

Rating: ★★

Nov 10, 2006Haunting

Follow-up to The Grudge, the English-language remake of the Japanese horror film. Although original Japanese director Takashi Shimizu is present, this is one of the weaker Ju-on/Grudge films

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Jennifer Beals, Arielle Kebbel, Edison Chen, …

Category: Horror

10 November 200628 October 2025 by Roog

Visions (2015)

Rating: ★★

Apr 8, 2016Clairvoyant Visions

Another effort from the near-ubiquitous Blumhouse horror company. A film that teases many things – occult rituals, cultists after the pregnant heroine's baby – that prove red herrings as it eventually telescopes down to a frustratingly ordinary explanation

Director: Kevin Greutert

Actors: Isla Fisher, Anson Mount, Gillian Jacobs, Joanna Cassidy, …

Category: Horror

8 April 201631 October 2023 by Roog