Rene Auberjonois Archives

Brewster McCloud (1971)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 10, 2004Gonzo Comedy/Man Builds Wings/Angelic Intervention

One of the most eccentric and strangest films in the oeuvre of Robert Altman in which Bud Cort set out to build a set of wings to fly, amid aid from angels and lots of bird symbolism

Director: Robert Altman

Actors: Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, …

Category: Fantasy

10 March 200411 September 2025 by Roog

Images (1972)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 28, 2000Identity Blurring/Surrealism

A fascinatingly enigmatic work from Robert Altman, an artily experimental film in which the identities of five people together at a countryside cottage begin to shift and blur

Director: Robert Altman

Actors: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Cathryn Harrison

Category: Fantasy

28 October 200015 April 2026 by Roog

The Big Bus (1976)

Rating: ★★

Jun 2, 1999Disaster Movie Parody

Intermittently amusing parody of the disaster movie set aboard an atomically-powered luxury bus where everything proceeds to go wrong. The better parody of the genre would have to wait for Airplane

Director: James Frawley

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Ned Beatty, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 June 199912 September 2025 by Roog

The infamous miscalculated Dino de Laurentiis remake of King Kong where the stop-motion is replaced by Rick Baker in an ape suit, while the fairytale romance is replaced by Jessica Lange as a flower child who cracks jokes

Director: John Guillermin

Actors: Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Rene Auberjonois, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

6 November 200111 June 2026 by Roog

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Rating: ★★

Jul 5, 2002Psychic Link with a Serial Killer

Faye Dunaway is a fashion photographer who gains a psychic link into the mind of a killer. From a John Carpenter script but the thriller plotting is never up to the chic suggestiveness the film is given

Director: Irvin Kershner

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Auberjonois, Brad Dourif, …

Category: Horror

5 July 200220 October 2025 by Roog

The Last Unicorn (1982)

Rating: ★★★★

Mar 7, 2004Unicorn's Quest/Animation

Beautiful and underrated animated fantasy film about an apprentice magician who protects the last unicorn. This has a maturity that most animated fantasy lacks

Director: Arthur Rankin Jr, Julie Bass

Actors: Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Tammy Grimes, Christopher Lee, …

Category: Fantasy

7 March 200413 October 2020 by Roog

My Best Friend is a Vampire (1987)

Rating: ★

Nov 17, 2000Teen Vampire Comedy

1980s comedy in which teenager Robert Sean Leonard is bitten by a vampire on a one-night stand an has to deal with the complications of turning into one while keeping it a secret at school

Director: Jimmy Huston

Actors: Robert Sean Leonard, David Warner, Rene Auberjonois, Cheryl Pollak, …

Category: Horror

17 November 200018 October 2020 by Roog

The Little Mermaid (1989)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 9, 1999Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale

The beginning of the big Disney renaissance of the 1990s. An adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale that is conducted with an enormous degree of energy, colour and good cheer

Director: John Musker, Ron Clements

Actors: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Pat Carroll, Kenneth Mars, …

Category: Fantasy

9 June 19993 July 2026 by Roog

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)

Rating: ★★

Jun 28, 2013Anime/Boy's Adventures in Dreams

Anime film based on Winsor McCay's celebrated comic strip about a boy's adventures in dreams. Despite a script from Ray Bradbury, the film waters the comic-strip down to the formula of the modern children's film

Director: Masami Hata, William Hurtz

Actors: Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois, Danny Mann, …

Category: Fantasy

28 June 201328 June 2026 by Roog

Inspector Gadget (1999)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 27, 1999Cyborg Cop/Cartoon in Live-Action

A live-action adaptation of the popular animated series, one of the spate of such films made after the live-action The Flintstones. Amiably silly and frequently slapstick fun that proves to be exactly what one expects of it

Director: David Kellogg

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Dabney Coleman, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 July 199921 April 2026 by Roog

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 20, 2000Disney Animation

One of the video-released sequels to their animated films that Disney made in the 90s/00s, this slavishly imitates its predecessor but does have a likeable line-up of supporting characters

Director: Brian Smith, Jim Kammerud

Actors: Tara Strong, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Samuel L. Wright, …

Category: Fantasy

20 December 20003 July 2026 by Roog

The Captains (2011)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 30, 2012Star Trek Documentary

Documentary where William Shatner interviews the actors who played the captains in the other incarnations of Star Trek. The entire show is hijacked by the Shatner ego as he constantly overrides his interview subjects

Director: William Shatner

Actors: William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 October 201213 January 2026 by Roog

Get a Life! (2012)

Rating: ★★★

May 25, 2021Star Trek Fandom Documentary

The William Shatner directed documentary can be a unique beast. Here he makes a quite reasonable effort to examine what is at the heart of Star Trek fandom

Director: William Shatner

Actors: William Shatner, Richard Arnold, Rene Auberjonois, Ira Steven Behr, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 May 202122 February 2026 by Roog