Thomas Mann Archives

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

Rating: ★

Jan 31, 2013Dark Adult Fairytale Adaptation

Amid the early 2010s fad for adult fairytale reinterpretations, this has an anachronistic absurdity that invites you not to take it seriously. A series of action movie poses, CGI and splatter effects are transplanted into the fairytale.

Director: Tommy Wirkola

Actors: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, …

Category: Fantasy

31 January 201311 March 2026 by Roog

Beautiful Creatures (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 14, 2013Young Adult/War Between Witches

Attempt to create another Twilight franchise that quickly becomes the anti-Twilight, shucking the pro-chastity message for a decidedly inflammatory stance against small-minded Christian prejudice

Director: Richard LaGravenese

Actors: Alden Ehrenreich, Jeremy Irons, Alice Englert, Emma Thompson, …

Category: Fantasy

14 February 20137 September 2025 by Roog

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 15, 2017Giant Ape

A reboot where King Kong is now part of a shared universe. This is less a tragic love story about Kong falling for a girl and being brought down by civilisation than Kong as a heroic defender fighting off other monsters

Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts

Actors: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 April 201714 June 2026 by Roog

Amityville: The Awakening (2017)

Rating: ★★

Oct 29, 2017Haunted House

No less than the twentieth film spun out around The Amityville Horror. This Blumhouse revival emerges as marginally better than most films with Amityville in the name

Director: Franck Khalfoun

Actors: Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cameron Monaghan, McKenna Grace, …

Category: Horror

29 October 201717 November 2025 by Roog

Lady and the Tramp (2019)

Rating: ★★

Nov 23, 2019Disney Animation in Live-Action/Talking Animals

Another Disney animated film rehashed in live-action. At which the best compliment you can pay this is that it is at least better than the same year's remake of The Lion King was

Director: Charlie Bean

Actors: Thomas Mann, Kiersey Clemons, Yvette Nicole Brown, Adrian Martinez, …

Category: Fantasy

23 November 201919 June 2026 by Roog

Halloween Kills (2021)

Rating: ★★

Oct 23, 2021Slasher Film

Sequel to the 2018 reboot/sequel to Halloween from David Gordon Greene, this is more scrupulous about paying homage to the original and recapturing something of John Carpenter’s original stylism

Director: David Gordon Green

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Michael Hall, James Jude Courtney, Judy Greer, …

Category: Horror

23 October 202129 October 2025 by Roog

Chariot (2022)

Rating: ★★

Sep 28, 2023Surrealism/Strange Hotel

A very strange surrealist film about the strange characters that populate a rundown hotel. Includes reincarnation, alien bug people and John Malkovich as a psychiatrist with red hair in a bow

Director: Adam Sigal

Actors: Thomas Mann, John Malkovich, Rosa Salazar, Scout Taylor-Compton, …

Category: Fantasy

28 September 202326 September 2025 by Roog