Katharine Ross Archives

Games (1967)

Rating: ★★★½

May 25, 2016Psycho-Thriller

One of the psycho-thrillers made by he great and underrated Curtis Harrington during the 60s/70s. The film draws much from Les Diaboliques, right down to casting its leading lady. Harrington delivers suspense with an expert hand

Director: Curtis Harrington

Actors: Simone Signoret, Katharine Ross, James Caan, Don Stroud, …

Category: Horror

25 May 201616 February 2026 by Roog

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 29, 2002Absurdist Comedy

An early Brian De Palma film, a wonderfully nonsensical work in an absurdist vein where Tom Smothers drops out of the corporate world to become a tap dancing magician under the tutelage of Orson Welles

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Tom Smothers, Orson Welles, Katharine Ross, John Astin

Category: Fantasy

29 July 200222 February 2026 by Roog

The Stepford Wives (1975)

Rating: ★★

Oct 18, 2004Android Housewife Replacements

Ira Levin's original novel wherein the men of a town replace their wives with subservient android duplicates seems to have its satiric point blunted when it comes to the film adaptation

Director: Bryan Forbes

Actors: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 October 200426 February 2026 by Roog

The Legacy (1978)

Rating: ★★

Dec 13, 2002Occult Killings

One of the last gasps of the Anglo-horror cycle, this sets assorted deviltry in an English mansion along with a series of novelty deaths that trying to compete with The Omen

Director: Richard Marquand

Actors: Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, John Standing, Margaret Tyzack, …

Category: Horror

13 December 20023 July 2026 by Roog

The Swarm (1978)

Rating: ★★

Feb 18, 2004Killer Bees Amok

Irwin Allen had great success in the 1970s with his disaster movies but this killer bee saga with a cast of big name stars uttering ridiculous dialogue and shabby effects proved a bomb that spelt the death knell for the genre

Director: Irwin Allen

Actors: Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Katharine Ross, Henry Fonda, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 February 200410 April 2026 by Roog

The Final Countdown (1980)

Rating: ★★

Jul 29, 2002Aircraft Carrier Time-Travels Back to Pearl Harbor

A big-budget film that has one of the great SF premises - what if a modern aircraft carrier were transported back in time to the eve of Pearl Harbor - only to end up blowing it.

Director: Don Taylor

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Charles Durning, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 July 200214 February 2026 by Roog

Wrong is Right (1982)

Rating: ★★

Jun 10, 2002International Political Thriller/Stolen Nuclear Weaponry

A sprawling international political thriller/satire about stolen nuclear weapons starring Sean Connery as a journalist

Director: Richard Brooks

Actors: Sean Connery, John Saxon, Katharine Ross, George Grizzard, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 June 200227 November 2023 by Roog

Donnie Darko (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 28, 2001Troubled Teen's Precognitive Visions

A thoroughly overrated cult classic. A baffling mixture of precognition, time travel, sinister talking bunnies and 1980s satire. What this doesn't do is ever fall together into a coherent explanation about what is going on

Director: Richard Kelly

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, …

Category: Fantasy

28 October 200120 January 2026 by Roog