Lily Tomlin 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

All Of Me (1984)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 3, 1999Bodyswap Comedy

One of Steve Martin’s finest works, a variant of the bodyswap comedy in which he finds himself sharing his body with Lily Tomlin. Martin's on-screen contortions are side-splitting

Director: Carl Reiner

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Richard Libertini, …

Category: Fantasy

3 July 19993 December 2021 by Roog

Shadows and Fog (1991)

Rating: ★★

Jun 8, 2001Kafka and German Expressionism Homage

One of the not-quite-rans in Woody Allen's oeuvre, a homage to Franz Kafka and German Expressionism with Allen as a mousy clerk caught up in the hunt for a strangler

Director: Woody Allen

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, …

Category: Fantasy

8 June 200116 December 2025 by Roog

The Kid (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 9, 2000Man Meets His Boyhood Self

Likeable and appealing Disney film in which Bruce Willis is an asshole executive who suddenly finds a kid in his apartment who turns out to be his nerdier boyhood self

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Actors: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, …

Category: Fantasy

9 July 20007 June 2021 by Roog

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 19, 2024Backstage at a Radio Variety Show

The final film from the great Robert Altman set backstage at a radio variety show as an angel of death wanders through

Director: Robert Altman

Actors: Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Woody Harrelson, …

Category: Fantasy

19 February 202419 February 2024 by Roog

The Ant Bully (2006)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 10, 2006Animation/Boy Reduced to Ant Size

An animated film about a child who is cruel to ants only to be magically reduced down to their size and then have to become their saviour against an exterminator

Director: John A. Davis

Actors: Zach Tyler Eisen, Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Bruce Campbell, …

Category: Fantasy

10 November 200624 November 2025 by Roog

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 9, 2019Animation/Comic-Book Superhero

Sony, the holders of the Spider-Man copyright, squeeze more out of the property with a madcap animated offering that mixes up a host of alternate takes on Spider-Man in what visually resembles an explosion at a pop art exhibition

Director: Bob Perschietti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

Actors: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Maherashala Ali, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 March 201923 May 2026 by Roog