Samantha Mathis Archives

Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992)

Rating: ★★

Apr 4, 2010Environmentally Aware Animation

Animated film where fairies face the threat to their forest posed by a logging operation. Preachy message-making that is all but a recruitment film for Greenpeace and the Sierra Club

Director: Bill Kroyer

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Jonathan Ward, Robin Williams, Christian Slater, …

Category: Fantasy

4 April 201021 October 2025 by Roog

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Rating: ½

May 28, 2000Videogame Adaptation/Evolved Dinosaurs

The first film to be adapted from a videogame and inauspiciously one of the worst. This is a film made on a decent budget that seems to have set out to be as stupid and brainless as possible

Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton

Actors: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 May 200012 May 2026 by Roog

Broken Arrow (1995)

Rating: ★★

Aug 25, 2002Action/Nuclear Hijacking

John Woo's second Hollywood film, an action film about nuclear hijacking. Woo's unique stylistics promptly get buried under the machinery of big-budget action filmmaking

Director: John Woo

Actors: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Bob Gunton, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 August 20029 March 2020 by Roog

The Simian Line (2000)

Rating: ★★

Nov 22, 2008Magical Realist Ensemble Drama

New Age film where a psychic makes a prediction about the couples at a party splitting up and how this affects all present

Director: Linda Yellen

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, William Hurt, Eric Stoltz, Harry Connick Jr., …

Category: Fantasy

22 November 200815 March 2024 by Roog

American Psycho (2000)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 14, 2000Yuppie Psycho

Mary Harron takes on Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial work about a yuppie serial killer and refines it to a blackly funny satire on 1980s pop culture and corporate greed

Director: Mary Harron

Actors: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Sevigny, …

Category: Horror

14 April 200017 November 2025 by Roog

The Mists of Avalon (2001)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 2, 2006Revisionist Arthurian Legends

TV mini-series based on Marion Zimmer Bradley's book that offers a revisionist take on the Arthurian legends, telling the story through the eyes of the women of the saga

Director: Uli Edel

Actors: Julianna Margulies, Anjelica Huston, Samantha Mathis, Edward Atterton, …

Category: Fantasy

2 April 20068 January 2025 by Roog

The Punisher (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jun 15, 2004Comic-Book Vigilante

Amid the huge surge of Marvel Comics adaptations in the early 2000s, there came this version of The Punisher. Cast with Thomas Jane, the film is tepid and singularly lacking in the grim, dark avenging violence of the comic-book

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh

Actors: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Rebecca Romijn, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 June 200418 February 2025 by Roog

‘Salem’s Lot (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jul 11, 2007Town of Vampires/Stephen King Adaptation

TV mini-series remake of the Stephen King novel, this fails to hold a candle to the earlier 1979 version

Director: Mikael Salomon

Actors: Rob Lowe, Samantha Mathis, Donald Sutherland, Robert Mammone, …

Category: Horror

11 July 20078 October 2024 by Roog

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 16, 2008Stephen King Anthology

TV mini-series that adapts eight Stephen King short stories. As with any anthology, the stories vary in quality but are generally quite reasonable

Director: Brian Henson, Mark Haber, Mikael Salomon, Mike Robe, Rob Bowman, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

Actors: William Hurt, Bruce Spence, Mia Sara, Claire Forlani, …

Category: Horror

16 December 200828 July 2021 by Roog

Buried (2010)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 17, 2010Man Buried in a Coffin

A thriller with Ryan Reynolds buried in a coffin where the camera remains inside with him for the entire running time. This must be commended for its rigour in generating suspense while never cheating on its idea

Director: Rodrigo Cortes

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Samantha Mathis, …

Category: Horror

17 November 20103 February 2026 by Roog

Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012)

Rating: ★

Apr 9, 2013Libertarian Political Fantasy/Ayn Rand Adaptation

The second film from Ayn Rand's libertarian fantasy. This gets more into the meat of Rand's ideas (wherein the wealthy decide to ignore an undeserving world) and is even more ridiculous than the first film

Director: John Putch

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Patrick Fabian, Esai Morales, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 April 201320 November 2025 by Roog

The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 23, 2020Teen Believes His Father Might Be a Serial Killer

Excellent, superbly written thriller loosely based on the B.T.K. killer story where a teen believes his father (Dylan McDermott in a great performance) might be a serial killer

Director: Duncan Skiles

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Madisen Beaty, Samantha Mathis, …

Category: Horror

23 November 20206 October 2025 by Roog

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023)

Rating: ★

Oct 20, 2023Resurrection of the Dead

A sequel, or more correctly, prequel to the recent remake of the Stephen King novel. This has some legitimacy in that it is adapted from a story recounted in the book

Director: Lindsey Anderson Beer

Actors: Jackson White, Henry Thomas, David Duchovny, Natalie Alyn Lind, …

Category: Horror

20 October 202320 October 2023 by Roog