Olivia Williams Archives

The Postman (1997)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 7, 2011Post-Holocaust

Kevin Costner directs David Brin's post-holocaust tale as an epic Western. Most audiences ridiculed the film's ardent flag-waving but you cannot deny that Costner makes a stirring and undeniably interesting film

Director: Kevin Costner

Actors: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Olivia Williams, Larenz Tate, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 January 201130 October 2021 by Roog

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Rating: ★★★★½

Aug 14, 1999Child Medium

The film that made the name of M. Night Shyamalan and still a strong and spooky story despite the variability of Shyamalan's offerings since then. What made the film a classic was its twist ending, something that has been relentlessly copied by numerous genre films since

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Actors: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, …

Category: Horror

14 August 19993 September 2024 by Roog

Jason and the Argonauts (2000)

Rating: ★★

Sep 23, 2007Greek Myth Adventure

A Hallmark tv mini-series remake of the Greek myths that fails to stand up to the classic 1963 version. Here Ray Harryhausen's amazing stop-motion animated effects are replaced by cut-price CGI

Director: Nick Willing

Actors: Jason London, Dennis Hopper, Jolene Blalock, Brian Thompson, …

Category: Fantasy

23 September 200712 May 2026 by Roog

The Body (2001)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 21, 2001Archaeological Discovery of Christ's Body

Thriller in which Antonio Banderas is a Catholic priest dispatched to Jerusalem to deal with the apparent archaeological discovery of Jesus Christ's body

Director: Jonas McCord

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Olivia Williams, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, …

Category: Fantasy

21 June 200121 February 2020 by Roog

Below (2002)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 9, 2003Haunted Submarine

David Twohy, director of Pitch Black, makes a fine subtle, ghost story set aboard a submarine during WWII. At times, this achieves a genuinely haunted atmosphere

Director: David Twohy

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, Matt Davis, …

Category: Horror

9 June 200327 November 2025 by Roog

Peter Pan (2003)

Rating: ★★

Dec 30, 2003Children's Adventures in a Magic Land

Live-action remake of the classic story this has some lovely moments but also feels over-produced and adds unnecessary adult psychological motivations to the mix

Director: P.J. Hogan

Actors: Rachel Hurd-Wood, Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Ludivine Sagnier, …

Category: Fantasy

30 December 20035 May 2023 by Roog

Valiant (2005)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 7, 2006Animation/Talking Carrier Pigeons

Amiable British animated film set amongst the Allied Resistance during World War II, all cast with talking carrier pigeons

Director: Gary Chapman

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent, …

Category: Fantasy

7 January 20062 February 2024 by Roog

Hanna (2011)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 16, 2011Teenage Girl Assassin

A film about a genetically tinkered teenage girl assassin that never lives up to its potential. Saoirse Ronan is great in the title role but director Joe Wright never gives the action scenes the kick they need

Director: Joe Wright

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Jason Flemyng, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 April 201111 March 2026 by Roog

The Last Days on Mars (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 13, 2014Expedition to Mars/Alien Zombie Infection

This starts out offering a fine astrophysically credible depiction of Mars only to reach for the playbook of Alien cliches to essentially become Zombies on Mars

Director: Ruairi Robinson

Actors: Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, Elias Koteas, Olivia Williams, …

Category: Science Fiction

13 April 20142 July 2026 by Roog

Seventh Son (2014)

Rating: ★★

Feb 8, 2015Epic Fantasy/Monster Hunter's Apprentice

An object lessons in how not to adapt a Young Adult series – take a book series about an apprentice witch hunter set in an alternate England and turn it a generic Lord of the Rings copy

Director: Sergei Bodrov

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, …

Category: Fantasy

8 February 20159 July 2026 by Roog

Altar (2014)

Rating: ★★

Sep 21, 2015Haunted House

Nick Willing is a genre director who has consistently impressed. Here he ventures into the English ghost story where your expectation is that he is going to turn the genre on its head – only he doesn't

Director: Nick Willing

Actors: Olivia Williams, Matthew Modine, Antonia Clarke, Steve Oram

Category: Horror

21 September 201515 November 2025 by Roog

The Father (2020)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 24, 2021Alzheimer's Sufferer/Reality Blurrings

A film that received great acclaim at awards season. Anthony Hopkins is a dementia-ridden senior and we experience his state of mind subjectively in a constantly shifting sense of what is real

Director: Florian Zeller

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, Imogen Poots, …

Category: Fantasy

24 April 202114 February 2026 by Roog

Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 25, 2025True-Life Body Snatcher and Necrophile

A tv mini-series based on true-life necrophile/grave robber Ed Gein. This embellishes the facts considerably but is one of the most outrageously out there pieces of tv watching you will come across

Director: Max Winkler

Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Suzanna Son, Laurie Metcalf, Lesley Manville, …

Category: Horror

25 October 202512 September 2026 by Roog