Josh Lucas Archives

The Dancer (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 9, 2007Experimental Dance Technology

Luc Besson produced film set among drum and bass dance culture in New York that follows an aspiring mute dancer (Mia Frye) who is asked to test a new technology that translates dance to music

Director: Fred Garson

Actors: Mia Frye, Garland Whitt, Rodney Eastman, Josh Lucas, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 September 200715 October 2025 by Roog

American Psycho (2000)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 14, 2000Yuppie Psycho

Mary Harron takes on Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial work about a yuppie serial killer and refines it to a blackly funny satire on 1980s pop culture and corporate greed

Director: Mary Harron

Actors: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Sevigny, …

Category: Horror

14 April 200017 November 2025 by Roog

The Weight of Water (2000)

Rating: ★★

Apr 26, 2001Historical Murder Mystery

One of Kathryn Bigelow's less successful films, an adaptation of an Anita Shreve historical murder mystery that tells a story in two different time periods

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, …

Category: Horror

26 April 20018 June 2025 by Roog

Session 9 (2001)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 12, 2001Sinister Abandoned Asylum

Borrowing the Blair Witch aesthetic, Brad Anderson makes a highly effective minimalist horror film about a group of working men encountering something during the clean-up operation of an abandoned asylum

Director: Brad Anderson

Actors: David Caruso, Josh Lucas, Paul Guilfoyle, Peter Mullan

Category: Horror

12 August 200112 March 2020 by Roog

When Strangers Appear (2001)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 10, 2001Psycho-Thriller

Excellent thriller set around a roadside diner where Radha Mitchell becomes caught between parties hunting the other where seems to be who they appear

Director: Scott Reynolds

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Barry Watson, Josh Lucas, Kevin Anderson, …

Category: Horror

10 August 200122 December 2023 by Roog

Hulk (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 15, 2003Comic Book Superhero/The Rampaging Monster Within

An early entry among the pre-MCU surge of Marvel Comics films in the early 2000s sees Ang Lee taking on The Incredible Hulk. Not Lee’s best film, this was slighted at the time but is worth reconsideration

Director: Ang Lee

Actors: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 July 20032 November 2025 by Roog

Stealth (2005)

Rating: ★★

Oct 6, 2005Artifically Intelligent Fighter Plane Amok

Action film about an artificially intelligent fighter plane that goes amok. Rob Cohen directs in all the cliches of the genre and the seeming need to have something spectacular happening every few minutes

Director: Rob Cohen

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, Sam Shepard, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 October 200519 September 2021 by Roog

Tell-Tale (2009)

Rating: ★★

Sep 21, 2010Possessed Transplant Organ

This is supposedly an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story The Tell-Tale Heart but it throws out all semblance to the story and instead tells a possessed transplant limb tale

Director: Michael Cuesta

Actors: Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox, Beatrice Miller, …

Category: Horror

21 September 20104 July 2026 by Roog

The Forever Purge (2021)

Rating: ★★

Jul 23, 2021Social Collapse of the USA

In this, the fifth film in The Purge series, the scenario becomes even more interestingly political, becoming a satiric take on MAGA America and the Capitol Riots

Director: Everardo Valerio Gout

Actors: Ana de la Reguera, Tenocuh Huerta, Josh Lucas, Leven Rambin, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 July 202125 October 2025 by Roog

The Black Demon (2023)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2025Megalodon Shark

Another killer shark survival piece with a family trapped aboard an abandoned oil rig under attack by a megalodon shark that may be the embodiment of an Aztec god

Director: Adrian Grünberg

Actors: Josh Lucas, Fernanda Urrejola, Venus Ariel, Carlos Salorzano, …

Category: Horror

30 January 202513 November 2025 by Roog