John Glover Archives

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 9, 2003Miniaturised Housewife Comedy

An appealing comedy remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man with Lily Tomlin as a housewife who starts to shrink after exposure to household cleaning products. One of the better films from the usually terrible Joel Schumacher

Director: Joel Schumacher

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Mark Blankfield, Ned Beatty, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 June 200313 January 2026 by Roog

Scrooged (1988)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 2004Modernised A Christmas Carol

A modernised version of A Christmas Carol that seems to have been construed in the shadow of Ghostbusters right down to casting Bill Murray as Scrooge

Director: Richard Donner

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, …

Category: Fantasy

1 June 200426 August 2021 by Roog

Life on the Edge (1989)

Rating: ★

Sep 4, 2000Family Life in a Weird Alternate Society

A film where makeup effects artist Tom Burman takes the director's in this head-scratchingly strange film about a family set in a bizarre future world

Director: Tom Burman

Actors: John Glover, Juliette Lewis, Richard Portnow, Joshua Miller

Category: Science Fiction

4 September 200025 June 2026 by Roog

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2002Malicious Creatures

A far less successful sequel to the mega-hit of Gremlins where director Joe Dante brings the gremlins to Manhattan and allows the silliness to go completely over-the-top and into orbit, even breaking the fourth wall

Director: Joe Dante

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Dick Miller, …

Category: Fantasy

6 December 200226 October 2025 by Roog

Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)

Rating: ★★★

May 22, 2001Zombified Mother Comedy

A very eccentric comedy in which momma's boy Steve Buscemi accepts a deal from a strange salesman to resurrect his beloved mother (Miriam Margolyes) from the dead

Director: Jonathan Wacks

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Miriam Margolyes, John Glover, Ned Beatty, …

Category: Fantasy

22 May 200130 January 2026 by Roog

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 17, 2002Meta-Fictional Horrors

In one of his last really good films, John Carpenter pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft in this horror film that becomes an amazing blurring of the line between reality and fiction

Director: John Carpenter

Actors: Sam Neill, Jurgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, Charlton Heston, …

Category: Horror

17 August 20028 January 2026 by Roog

Automatic (1995)

Rating: ★

Jul 3, 2000Action/Android Hero

Olivier Gruner plays an android who goes rogue after accidentally killing his boss. A dull action film with no greater ambition than to be an SF version of Die Hard

Director: John Murlowski

Actors: Olivier Gruner, Daphne Ashbrook, John Glover, Jeff Kober, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 July 200021 November 2025 by Roog

Batman & Robin (1997)

Rating: ★

Sep 30, 2000Comic-Book Superhero

Possibly the worst film ever made on a big studio budget, Joel Schumacher’s follow-up to Tim Buton's standout Batman films where he turns everything into an absurd Day Glo realm with a script for two year-olds, campy puns and badly overacting super-villains

Director: Joel Schumacher

Actors: George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, …

Category: Fantasy

30 September 200025 November 2025 by Roog

The Tempest (1998)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 22, 2023Shakespeare Adaptation Updated to the US Civil War

A retelling of the Shakespeare play, which had been updated to the midst of the American Civil War with some interesting results

Director: Jack Bender

Actors: Peter Fonda, Katherine Heigl, John Glover, Harold Perrineau Jr, …

Category: Fantasy

22 March 202310 June 2024 by Roog

Reality (2014)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 16, 2018Gonzo Surrealism/Blurring of Dream and Fiction

A film from Quentin Dupieux that comes in a series of quirky intersecting stories where the dreams and films different characters are watching/making keeping blurring together in mind-boggling ways

Director: Quentin Dupieux

Actors: Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Kyla Kenedy, Jon Heder, …

Category: Fantasy

16 January 20181 July 2026 by Roog

Shazam! (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 6, 2019Comic-Book Superhero

Adaptation of the superhero comic is played for comedy, making it very different in emphasis to the other films in the DCEU. The boy into man transformation is played up as essentially Big with superpowers - with appealing results

Director: David F. Sandberg

Actors: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, …

Category: Fantasy

6 July 201910 June 2025 by Roog

The Home (2025)

Rating: ★

Mar 1, 2026Sinister Retirement Home

A ridiculous film where petty criminal Pete Davidson is given a job at a retirement home only to discover that sinister activities are occurring all around him. From the director of The Purge films

Director: James DeMonaco

Actors: Pete Davidson, John Glover, Bruce Altman, Mary Beth Peil, …

Category: Horror

1 March 202624 April 2026 by Roog