Marianne Jean-Baptiste Archives

The Cell (2000)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 18, 2000Journey Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer

The dreamscape film was given extraordinary life by Tarsem Singh in his directorial debut who transforms a fairly ordinary script with visuals and costuming that is out of this world

Director: Tarsem Singh

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn, Jake Weber, …

Category: Horror

18 August 200017 September 2020 by Roog

City of Ember (2008)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 13, 2009Young Adult/Underground City

Excellent Young Adult adapted work about teenagers in a vast underground city coming to an awareness of the forgotten surface world. The underground world is a production designer's marvel

Director: Gil Kenan

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, …

Category: Science Fiction

13 August 200929 September 2025 by Roog

I have to admit despite all the bad feeling for this, I liked it. While what went on in terms of the man inside the machine was cut and dried in the original, this has been shifted to give us a "the soul of Robocop" story . Moreover, the original's biting satire of 1980s corporations and politics has been smartly updated to tackle some big 2010s issues

Director: José Padilha

Actors: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 February 20148 October 2020 by Roog

In Fabric (2018)

Rating: ★★★½

May 31, 2021Cursed Dress

From Peter Strickland who is fast developing a cult name, this is on one level a horror film about a killer dress; on another level, it is a captivating film of textures and surrealistic deadpan humour

Director: Peter Strickland

Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fatma Mohamed, Leo Bill, Gwendoline Christie, …

Category: Horror

31 May 202116 April 2026 by Roog

Peter Rabbit (2018)

Rating: ★

Apr 29, 2018Talking Animals

Beatrix Potter wrote genteel stories of talking animals in the English countryside. This is a film so astonishingly awful in its treatment of the source material - it feels like someone drunkenly urinating on Beatrix Potter's gravestone for lulz. The No 1 contender for Worst Film of 2018

Director: Will Gluck

Actors: Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sacha Horler, …

Category: Fantasy

29 April 20183 October 2022 by Roog

Fatman (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 20, 2020Kid Hires a Hitman to Kill Santa

Amusingly dark Christmas film where a kid hires a hitman to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking. Featuring Mel Gibson as a grumpy Santa struggling with modern economic realities

Director: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms

Actors: Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Chance Hurstfield, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, …

Category: Fantasy

20 December 202021 October 2025 by Roog