Ron Rifkin Archives

Silent Running (1972)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 27, 2003Saving the World's Last Forest in Space

Classic SF film from effects man Douglas Trumbull, one that spins 2001: A Space Odyssey with a conservationist bent. Slightly loopy in terms of its science, the design and effects have a grandeur

Director: Douglas Trumbull

Actors: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Category: Science Fiction

27 April 200313 November 2021 by Roog

Flowers for Algernon (2000)

Rating: ★★

Feb 3, 2008Experiment Turns Intellectually Handicapped Man Into a Genius

Matthew Modine stars in the remake of the classic story about an experiment that turns an intellectually handicapped man into a genius. Everything comes in the simplistic emotions of a tv movie

Director: Jeff Bleckner

Actors: Matthew Modine, Kelli Williams, Ron Rifkin, Richard Chevolleau, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 February 20086 February 2026 by Roog

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Rating: ★★

Aug 25, 2002Nuclear Terrorism/Tom Clancy Adaptation

Fourth of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan films, which performs a confusing continuity reset to recast the role with the younger Ben Affleck. The film's release was delayed by 9/11, which makes the plot about nuclear terrorism on US soil seems absurdly tame in retrospect

Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Actors: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Ciaran Hinds, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 August 200211 October 2024 by Roog

Dragonfly (2002)

Rating: ★★

Jun 14, 2002Haunting

Kevin Costner believes his late wife is trying to communicate with him. Comedy director Tom Shadyac makes his first serious film but it is so respectable and with all the horror element bled out of it as to be dull

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, Joe Morton, Jacob Vargas, …

Category: Horror

14 June 200214 October 2025 by Roog

Pulse (2006)

Rating: ★★

Oct 21, 2007Soul-Sucking Creatures from the Internet

As part of the mid-00s fad for English-language remakes of Japanese horror films, Kiyoshi Kuroawa's unfathomable but undeniably creepy internet horror is reworked as a standard teen film

Director: Jim Sonzero

Actors: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Ron Rifkin, …

Category: Horror

21 October 20075 February 2025 by Roog