Robert John Burke Archives

Thinner (1996)

Rating: ★★

Mar 7, 2009Weight Loss Curse/Stephen King Adaptation

Adaptation of one of Stephen King's Richard Bachman novels about an obese lawyer afflicted with a thinning curse. There are some great effects but the film's moral messages come off as wrong

Director: Tom Holland

Actors: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Kari Wuhrer, Michael Constantine, …

Category: Horror

7 March 200911 April 2025 by Roog

Hide and Seek (2005)

Rating: ★

Feb 22, 2005Child's Sinister Invisible Companion

A variant on the sinister child's invisible companion theme. A fine cast has been assembled but the film goes and kills itself with a lame twist ending

Director: John Polson

Actors: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, …

Category: Horror

22 February 200531 October 2025 by Roog

Limitless (2011)

Rating: ★★

Mar 27, 2011Intelligence Expanding Drug

Bradley Cooper in a film about a drug that provides about heightened intelligence. In truth this is a film how becoming a baked drug addict can give you the feeling you can change the world

Director: Neil Burger

Actors: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 March 201127 June 2026 by Roog

Boston Strangler (2023)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 1, 2023True-Life Serial Killer

Produced by Ridley Scott, a new true crime work about the Boston Strangler killings that is told through the eyes of Keira Knightley as the journalist who broke the case

Director: Matt Ruskin

Actors: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, …

Category: Horror

1 April 202310 December 2025 by Roog