Ryan Kwanten Archives

Dead Silence (2007)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 17, 2008Possessed Ventriloquist's Dolls

In his immediate follow-up to Saw, James Wan turns to the old possessed ventriloquist's dummy theme. The result is not quite another Saw but Wan does deliver a number of very creepy moments

Director: James Wan

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Donnie Wahlberg, Bob Gunton, Michael Fairman, …

Category: Horror

17 April 200812 February 2025 by Roog

Griff the Invisible (2010)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 24, 2011Man Believes He is a Superhero

An Australian entry in the spate of superheroes with no powers films a la the likes of Kick-Ass, Defendor and Super. This plays out as a quirky but never particularly funny romantic comedy

Director: Leon Ford

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Marshall Napier, Heather Mitchell, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 September 201121 May 2021 by Roog

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 21, 2010Animation/Talking Owls

Zack Snyder makes an exquisite motion-capture animated film for adults about talking owls. This has a story that comes with a sweeping mythic arc

Director: Zack Snyder

Actors: Jim Sturgess, Emily Barclay, Ryan Kwanten, Helen Mirren, …

Category: Fantasy

21 September 201021 June 2026 by Roog

Knights of Badassdom (2013)

Rating: ★★

Apr 20, 2014Live-Action Roleplayers Encounter a Demon

This has a winning concept - live-action roleplayers are forced to face a demon they accidentally conjure. Only it becomes a one-joke film with characters delivering mock mediaeval dialogue in falsettos

Director: Joe Lynch

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Summer Glau, Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage, …

Category: Fantasy

20 April 201413 June 2026 by Roog

7500 (2014)

Rating: ★★

Mar 9, 2015Haunted Happenings on an Airplane

Takashi Shimizu has done commendable work on the Ju-on/The Grudge films and so I anticipated his taking on the airplane-board horror genre. Only he delivers a surprisingly middle-of-the-road handling before reaching a cliched twist ending that truly deserves to be put out to pasture

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Leslie Bibb, Amy Smart, Nicky Whelan, …

Category: Horror

9 March 20159 April 2021 by Roog

2067 (2020)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2020Time Portal

Australian film in which Kodi Smit-McPhee heads through a time portal to save a polluted world resulting in a time paradox that ties back to his childhood. This had promise but badly lets down on its premise

Director: Seth Larney

Actors: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten, Aaron Glenane, Deborah Mailman, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 December 20206 December 2020 by Roog

Glorious (2022)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 23, 2023Man Trapped in a Bathroom with a Deity

Film with a literally off-the-wall premise in which Ryan Kwanten is trapped in a rest stop bathroom with a Lovecraftian deity that speaks through a glory hole in the next stall

Director: Rebekah McKendry

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, Sylvia Grace Crim, Andrew Lamar, …

Category: Fantasy, Horror

23 April 202313 November 2025 by Roog

Loveland (2022)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 15, 2024Cyberpunk Future

Modest and interesting Cyberpunk film that works as a melancholy future-set romance with Ryan Kwanten as a hitman. Minimalist but with some striking conceptual twists

Director: Ivan Sen

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Jillian Nguyen, Hugo Weaving

Category: Science Fiction

15 February 202429 June 2026 by Roog

Primitive War (2025)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 27, 2026Dinosaurs in the Vietnam War

Essentially Platoon meets Jurassic Park. A surprisingly watchable film that places a unit of soldiers in the midst of the Vietnam War up against dinosaurs where things get bloody and ferocious

Director: Luke Sparke

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler, Jeremy Piven, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 June 202627 June 2026 by Roog