Peter Gallagher Archives

Dreamchild (1985)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 27, 2001Real-Life Alice in Wonderland Reminisces

Dennis Potter scripted film with the great Coral Browne as the aging Alice Liddell, who inspired the fictional Alice in Wonderland, who imagines the creatures come to life to show her the hidden message in the book

Director: Gavin Millar

Actors: Coral Browne, Peter Gallagher, Ian Holm, Nicola Cowper, …

Category: Fantasy

27 February 200125 January 2026 by Roog

High Spirits (1988)

Rating: ★★

Feb 27, 2003Haunted Castle Comedy

Neil Jordan has shown himself as an excellent director elsewhere but seems to have little aptitude for comedy when it comes to this raucous knockabout farce about a haunted castle

Director: Neil Jordan

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Beverly D'Angelo, …

Category: Fantasy

27 February 200317 March 2026 by Roog

Late for Dinner (1991)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 2, 2000Cryogenic Sleepers Awake in the Present

A thoughtful and well-written Cryogenic Sleepers Awake film that charts the culture shock experienced by two men frozen in the 1960s and thawed out in the present day

Director: W.D. Richter

Actors: Peter Berg, Marcia Gay Harden, Brian Wimmer, Colleen Flynn, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 August 200021 June 2026 by Roog

Mother’s Boys (1994)

Rating: ★

Feb 27, 2003Psycho Separated Mother

Thriller with Jamie Lee Curtis as a psychopathic mother determined to get her boys back from her ex

Director: Yves Simoneau

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Luke Edwards, …

Category: Horror

27 February 200310 January 2025 by Roog

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)

Rating: ★★

Apr 27, 2003Ghosts of Memory

Ambiguous ghost story in which Peter Gallagher sees and talks to his late wife Michelle Pfeiffer. Written by hit tv producer David E. Kelley (The Practice), this frequently disappears into its own self-congratulatory dialogue

Director: Michael Pressman

Actors: Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, …

Category: Fantasy

27 April 20031 March 2026 by Roog

Brave New World (1998)

Rating: ★

Aug 10, 2010Dystopian Future

TV movie adaptation that conducts a hatchet job on Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel where his vision of a conditioned class structure is turned into an allegory about a media-saturated world

Director: Larry Williams, Leslie Libman

Actors: Peter Gallagher, Rya Kihlshedt, Tim Guinee, Leonard Nimoy, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 August 201010 September 2025 by Roog

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 31, 1999Haunted House

The announcement of the remake of The Haunting was followed by this remake of the 1959 William Castle film, which turns out far more unpretentious and altogether more fun than the bloated flop of The Haunting

Director: William Malone

Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Peter Gallagher, Ali Larter, …

Category: Horror

31 October 19992 March 2026 by Roog

Palm Springs (2020)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 18, 2020Timeloop Comedy

Variation on the Groundhog Day timeloop theme, this has two people trapped on the same day at a wedding. Of all the copies, this is a delight that has a really hilariously madcap creativity

Director: Max Barbakow

Actors: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, …

Category: Fantasy

18 July 202017 November 2025 by Roog

Humane (2024)

Rating: ★★★

May 10, 2024Future Euthanasia

David Cronenberg’s daughter Caitlin makes her directorial debut with a film set around a family dinner in a future where the world has decided to euthanize the world population by twenty percent

Director: Caitlin Cronenberg

Actors: Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire, Enrico Colantoni, Sebstian Chacon, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 May 202429 March 2026 by Roog