Sandrine Holt Archives

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2003)

Rating: ★★

Jun 19, 2005War with Aliens/Alien Body Snatchers

A passable video-released sequel to Starship Troopers the heads more in the direction of a body snatchers film. Directed by stop-motion animator Phil Tippett

Director: Phil Tippett

Actors: Richard Burgi, Ed Lauter, Ed Quinn, Lawrence Monoson, …

Category: Science Fiction

19 June 200513 September 2026 by Roog

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Rating: ★★

Oct 18, 2004Videogame Adaptation/City of Zombies

The first of the Resident Evil sequels and a better film than its predecessor, getting in a series of spectacular, if at times ridiculously silly, action sequences

Director: Alexander Witt

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

18 October 20047 November 2023 by Roog

The Phantom (2009)

Rating: ★½

Jun 26, 2011Comic-Book Superhero

A mini-series based on the classic comic-book masked hero but the attempts to modernise The Phantom for the post-Dark Knight era seem bizarrely awkward

Director: Paolo Barzman

Actors: Ryan Carnes, Sandrine Holt, Isabella Rossellini, Jean Marchand, …

Category: Fantasy

26 June 201126 October 2022 by Roog

Underworld: Awakening (2012)

Rating: ★½

Jan 21, 2012Vampire-Werewolf War

Yet another entry that nobody asked for in a conceptually threadbare series that nobody seems to like … passably better than the last two sequels due to some ok action moves but still empty-headed in terms of ideas

Director: Bjorn Stein, Måns Mårlind

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Charles Dance, Michael Ealy, …

Category: Horror

21 January 20124 December 2024 by Roog

Air (2015)

Rating: ★★

Nov 23, 2015Cryogenic Sleepers Drama

This comes with a great premise – two men are woken from cryogenic suspension only to find one of their cryo-tubes broken and they discover their purpose there may not be what they were told

Director: Christian Cantamessa

Actors: Norman Reedus, Djimon Hounsou, Sandrine Holt

Category: Science Fiction

23 November 201511 November 2025 by Roog

Terminator Genisys (2015)

Rating: ★

Jul 4, 2015Time-Travelling Killer Androids

A hodgepodge of competing elements – an aging Arnold Schwarzenegger, a soft reboot, alternate timelines, reintroduction of the familiar, twists to the familiar – that make no sense on a narrative level, least of all come anywhere near what James Cameron delivered back in the first two films

Director: Alan Taylor

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jai Courtney, Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 July 20158 September 2024 by Roog

The Shrouds (2024)

Rating: ★★★★

Jun 21, 2025Grave Camera Technology

At age 81, David Cronenberg is still on great form with this perversely fascinating work about the development of a technology that places cameras inside graves to observe corpses as they decay

Director: David Cronenberg

Actors: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 June 20256 August 2026 by Roog