John Wood Archives

WarGames (1983)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 25, 2002Teen Hacker Accidentally Triggers Nuclear War

This was the first film to ever depict the internet with Matthew Broderick as a teen innocent hacker who accidentally hacks in and triggers a nuclear alert thinking he is playing a computer game

Director: John Badham

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 August 20027 June 2026 by Roog

Ladyhawke (1985)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 7, 2001Mediaeval Fantasy/Lovers Under Animal Transformation Curse

A beautifully made Richard Donner mediaeval fantasy with two lovers suffering a curse that transforms them into animals only able to touch in person for a second at dusk and dawn

Director: Richard Donner

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, …

Category: Fantasy

7 April 20015 July 2026 by Roog

Orlando (1992)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 1, 2006Gender-Changing Immortal Across the Ages

Tilda Swinton plays a gender-changing immortal in Sally Potter's eccentric adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel

Director: Sally Potter

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau, John Wood, …

Category: Fantasy

1 February 20065 December 2023 by Roog

The Little Vampire (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 29, 2000Children's Vampire Film

The film version of a popular series of German children’s books about a buy who befriends a young vampire kid. The proves lightweight and likeable enough

Director: Uli Edel

Actors: Jonathan Lipnicki, Jim Carter, Richard E. Grant, Alice Krige, …

Category: Fantasy

29 October 20003 July 2026 by Roog

Magical Realism film where Juliette Binoche's magic chocolates serve to unleash passions in a conservative French village. An incredibly overrated film that was for some reason nominated for an Academy Award Best Picture

Director: Lasse Hallström

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, …

Category: Fantasy

19 January 20012 January 2026 by Roog

The Body (2001)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 21, 2001Archaeological Discovery of Christ's Body

Thriller in which Antonio Banderas is a Catholic priest dispatched to Jerusalem to deal with the apparent archaeological discovery of Jesus Christ's body

Director: Jonas McCord

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, …

Category: Fantasy

21 June 200121 February 2020 by Roog