Keith David Archives

The Thing (1982)

Rating: ★★★★★

Jan 11, 2002Shapechanging Alien Nasty

John Carpenter at the peak of his career, remaking The Thing from Another World as a wild and phantasmagoric film steeped in paranoia that proved to be the absolute epitome of the era's fad for air-bladder transformation effects

Director: John Carpenter

Actors: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, David Clennon, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 January 200215 June 2023 by Roog

They Live (1988)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 6, 2001Reality-Manipulating Aliens

John Carpenter makes an alien invasion film that works as a biting satire of Reaganomics in which aliens are manipulating reality to increase their profit shares in Earth

Director: John Carpenter

Actors: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason

Category: Science Fiction

6 July 200111 April 2025 by Roog

The Puppet Masters (1994)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 15, 2007Alien Body Snatchers

This adaptation of the Robert Heinlein novel was not a success when it came out but is a modest addition to the alien body snatchers genre with some undeniably effective moments

Director: Stuart Orme

Actors: Eric Thal, Donald Sutherland, Julie Warner, Keith David, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 December 20079 April 2021 by Roog

Armageddon (1998)

Rating: ★

Jul 31, 1999Asteroid on a Collision Course with Earth

A film that relentlessly celebrates its own brainlessness. Michael Bay directs an asteroid collision film amid plenty of loud noise, mass destruction, flag-waving patriotism and resolute heroism

Director: Michael Bay

Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 July 199913 July 2026 by Roog

There’s Something About Mary (1998)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 19, 2000Stalker Black Comedy

The Farrelly Brothers have become known for their crude and rude humour but this stalker comedy is one they hit with all barrels firing and has become regarded as a modern comedy classuc

Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Actors: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, …

Category: Horror

19 September 200011 April 2025 by Roog

Pitch Black (2000)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 19, 2000Planetary Survival

A gripping and particularly well conceived planetary survival story. The film that launched Vin Diesel's career and he has never been better than as the lethal, tight-lipped serial killer Riddick

Director: David Twohy

Actors: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 February 20007 February 2025 by Roog

Agent Cody Banks (2003)

Rating: ★★

Oct 9, 2003Teenage Spy Comedy

Another of the spy parodies that emerged following Austin Powers. Frankie Muniz is a high school teenager who is recruited as a spy. This proves a mildly amusing set-up that is delivered with surprisingly little wit

Director: Harald Zwart

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 October 200314 June 2026 by Roog

Agent Cody 2 Banks: Destination London (2004)

Rating: ★

May 12, 2004Teenage Spy Comedy

A sequel to the teen spy comedy. This moves the action to England but amplifies everything else into inanely loud and noisy slapstick action

Director: Kevin Allen

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, James Faulkner, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 May 200411 November 2025 by Roog

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 14, 2004Intergalactic Adventures

The sequel to Pitch Black where Vin Diesel's serial killer now becomes the hero of the show and the original planetary survival story is expanded out into an ornate Gothic space opera

Director: David Twohy

Actors: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Judi Dench, Alexa Davalos, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 August 200414 January 2026 by Roog

The Last Sentinel (2007)

Rating: ★★

Aug 1, 2019Programmed Soldier

Action film with Don 'The Dragon' Wilson as a cyborg soldier fighting a one-man war against rogue police drones of the future. A fairly generic assemblage of cliches

Director: Jesse Johnson

Actors: Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Katee Sackhoff, Dawnn Lewis, Bokeem Woodbine, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 August 201912 July 2026 by Roog

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 5, 2009Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes

Animated Justice League film, which adapts a comic-book storyline that reconceived the various DC superheroes as they were back in the era of their original creation

Director: David Bullock

Actors: David Boreanaz, Miguel Ferrer, Neil Patrick Harris, Kyle MacLachlan, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 July 200922 December 2021 by Roog

Against the Dark (2009)

Rating: ★★

Apr 12, 2011Zombie Action Film

Steven Seagal tries to extend his career by taking on the zombie film. However, this is routine on all levels, although to its advantage Seagal is not on screen much

Director: Richard Crudo

Actors: Steven Seagal, Jenna Harrison, Linden Ashby, Keith David, …

Category: Horror

12 April 20116 November 2025 by Roog

Gamer (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2010Future Live-Action Videogames

Film somewhere between Counterstrike and The Running Man where convicts are controlled as avatars inside a live-action videogame. A difficult to believe premise that is pumped up with hyper-adrenalised action visuals

Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine

Actors: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Logan Lerman, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 January 201025 October 2025 by Roog

Coraline (2009)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 25, 2009Stop-Motion Animation/Sinister Mirror World

The welcome return of stop-motion animator Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and at his wildly imaginative and darkly menacing best in an adaptation of a book by Neil Gaiman

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, …

Category: Fantasy

25 August 200918 December 2019 by Roog

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 20, 2009Disney Animation/Animal Transformation

One of the more enjoyable Disney animated films from the latter half of the 00s. Featuring Disney's first Black heroine, this embraces its New Orleans setting and turns Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale on its head with enjoyable results

Director: John Musker, Ron Clements

Actors: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, …

Category: Fantasy

20 December 20095 February 2025 by Roog

Chain Letter (2010)

Rating: ★

Sep 12, 2012Slasher Film/Anti-Technology Cult

Ridiculous film that seems to want to say something about modern technological interconnectivity but has simply grafted it onto a slasher formula. while being bsurdly ill-informed about its subject

Director: Deon Taylor

Actors: Nikki Reed, Keith David, Cody Kasch, Michael J. Pagan, …

Category: Horror

12 September 201231 December 2025 by Roog

Smiley (2012)

Rating: ★★

Sep 3, 2020Internet Boogeyman

This is essentially Candyman rewritten for the internet generation about a boogeyman that appears to kill the person on the other end if you type a phrase three times

Director: Michael Gallagher

Actors: Caitlin Gerard, Melanie Papalia, Roger Bart, Keith David, …

Category: Horror

3 September 20203 September 2020 by Roog

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 24, 2012Cross-Historical Epic

A cross-historical epic from The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. An uneven film driven more by its determination we view it as an epic. Surely a studio publicist's nightmare, it grasps at the meaning of it all yet eludes telling audiences what it is about

Director: Lana/Larry Wachowski, Lilly/Andy Wachowski, The Wachowskis, Tom Tykwer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent, Halle Berry, Doona Bae, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 October 20123 January 2026 by Roog

Assault on Wall Street (2013)

Rating: ★★

Mar 1, 2014Man Goes on a Shooting Rampage Against Bankers

Uwe Boll makes a big issue film about the subprime mortgage crisis. The film is packed by Boll with messages but comes down to being a variant on Death Wish with its blue-collar hero on a shooting rampage against bankers

Director: Uwe Boll

Actors: Dominic Purcell, Erin Karpluk, Edward Furlong, John Heard, …

Category: Horror

1 March 201419 November 2025 by Roog

Free Birds (2013)

Rating: ★★

Nov 1, 2013Animation/Time-Travelling Talking Turkeys

Animated film designed for the US Thanksgiving holiday. With a completely insane plot involving turkeys travelling back in time to stop turkeys being served at the first Thanksgiving

Director: Jimmy Hayward

Actors: Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, George Takei, …

Category: Fantasy

1 November 20138 February 2026 by Roog

Range 15 (2016)

Rating: ★

Apr 14, 2017Zombie Comedy

This is a crowdourced film made by military veterans who set out with the idea of creating better military characterisations in films. Bizarrely enough, they turn to the zombie comedy to do so and the result is the crassest, most willfully offensive zombie film ever made

Director: Ross Patterson

Actors: Mat Best, Nick Palmisciano, Jarred Taylor, Vincent Vargas, …

Category: Horror

14 April 201721 February 2025 by Roog

Tales from the Hood 2 (2018)

Rating: ★★

Sep 20, 2021African-American Horror Anthology

Tales from the Hood was the novelty of an African-American made horror anthology. 23 years later the principal talents (including producer Spike Lee) reunite for a sequel

Director: Darin Scott, Rusty Cundieff

Actors: Keith David, Kendrick Cross, Bryan Batt, Bill Martin Williams, …

Category: Horror

20 September 20216 December 2024 by Roog

In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic ‘80s Horror (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 11, 2020Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film

An exhaustive documentary that charts in enormous detail every facet of the 1980s horror film, although this is not as exhaustive as it seems to think and leaves some big omissions

Director: David Weiner

Actors: Tom Atkins, Doug Bradley, Joe Bob Briggs, Darcy the Mail Girl, …

Category: Horror

11 July 202016 April 2026 by Roog

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 27, 2022Documentary About African-Americans in Horror

A documentary about African-Americans in the horror genre that covers everything from the earliest depictions through the Blaxploitation film to the rise of Black filmmakers

Director: Xavier Burgin

Actors: Tony Todd, Keith David, Jordan Peele, Loretta Devine, …

Category: Horror

27 December 20221 November 2025 by Roog

Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 14, 2019Genre Director Documentary

Documentary about the so-called World's Worst Director Uwe Boll. We get fascinating insight into Boll's filmmaking methods, while the documentary fearlessly tackles the controversies associated with its subject

Director: Sean Patrick Shaul

Actors: Uwe Boll, Brendan Fletcher, Clint Howard, Michael Paré, …

Category: Fantasy, Horror

14 July 201913 February 2026 by Roog

In Search of Darkness II: A Journey Into ’80s Horror Continues (2020)

Rating: ★★

May 6, 2024Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film

A follow-up to the documentary about the 1980s horror film, this deals with some of the lesser-known and overlooked works that were not covered the first time around

Director: David Weiner

Actors: Nancy Allen, Tom Atkins, Doug Bradley, Joe Bob Briggs, …

Category: Horror

6 May 202414 November 2025 by Roog

Black As Night (2021)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 22, 2023Vampires Invade the Hood

One of the post-Twilight vampire films that have transplanted the basics into different locales – in this, a rundown inner-city New Orleans ghetto neighbourhood

Director: Maritte Lee Go

Actors: Ashja Cooper, Fabrizio Guido, Mason Beauchamp, Abbie Gayle, …

Category: Horror

22 August 20238 September 2025 by Roog

Catwoman: Hunted (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 6, 2022Animation/Comic-Book Super-Thief

Animated adventure given over to Catwoman that comes with an appealing sense of humour that easily erases all memory of the Halle Berry film

Director: Shinsuke Terasawa

Actors: Elizabeth Gillies, Stephanie Beatriz, Jonathan Banks, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, …

Category: Fantasy

6 February 202215 February 2023 by Roog

Nope (2022)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 3, 2022UFO Film

Jordan Peele seems to have arrived at the same position that M. Night Shyamalan was in in the early 2000s. In his third film as director, he makes a film about UFOs that becomes a baffling scratch of the head

Director: Jordan Peele

Actors: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Brandon Perea, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 September 202217 October 2025 by Roog

DC League of Super Pets (2022)

Rating: ★★

Sep 4, 2022Animation/DC Comics Superhero Pets

Superheroes have overrun screens. It is starting to seem a little too much when we now get an animated film about animal superheroes who form their own Justice League

Director: Jared Stern

Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 September 202215 January 2026 by Roog

Shelby Oaks (2024)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 12, 2025Missing Girl Investigation

YouTube film reviewer Chris Stuckmann makes a directorial debut with this film about the investigation into a mysterious disappearance where he makes a work that is well above the often familiar material it deals with

Director: Chris Stuckmann

Actors: Camille Sullivan, Sarah Durn, Robin Bartlett, Keith David, …

Category: Horror

12 December 202512 December 2025 by Roog