Tony Amendola Archives

The Borrower (1991)

Rating: ★½

Sep 4, 2000Head-Snatching Alien

The film that Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer director John McNaughton chose to make next - about an an alien criminal sentenced to Earth who is forced to 'borrow' people's heads to replace its own

Director: John McNaughton

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Tom Towles, Don Gordon, Antonio Fargas, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 September 200028 December 2025 by Roog

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 15, 2013Animation/Tales of the Green Lantern Corps

Animated film that tells different stories of various members of the Green Lantern Corps (including two stories from Alan Moore). Another of the worthwhile animated DC adaptations

Director: Christopher Berkeley, Jay Oliva, Lauren Montgomery

Actors: Nathan Fillion, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Isaacs, Michael Whitfield, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 October 20131 March 2026 by Roog

Annabelle (2014)

Rating: ★

Oct 17, 2014Sinister Doll

Someone had the bright idea to make a film centred around the creepy doll that appears in the wraparound scenes of The Conjuring. But without James Wan as director, everything disappears into formulaic scares

Director: John R. Leonetti

Actors: Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Tony Amendola, Alfre Woodard, …

Category: Horror

17 October 201418 November 2025 by Roog

The Devil’s Candy (2015)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2018Heavy Metal Horror/Occult Brooding/Psycho Stalker

From Australian director Sean Byrne who made the splendidly twisted The Loved Ones, this starts out a heavy metal horror film that broods with occult imagery and a sense of bad things about to explode

Director: Sean Byrne

Actors: Ethan Embry, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shiri Appleby, Kiara Glasco, …

Category: Horror

30 January 201820 February 2026 by Roog

The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

Rating: ★

Jun 7, 2019Legendary Mexican Boogeywoman

An extension of The Conjuring universe with a film based on the Mexican legend of the crying woman La Llorona. This killed by the director's constant straining for effect

Director: Michael Chaves

Actors: Linda Cardellini, Roman Christiou, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Raymond Cruz, …

Category: Horror

7 June 20198 August 2026 by Roog

Rebel Moon – A Child of Fire: Part One (2023)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 6, 2024Space Opera

Zack Snyder returns with a work that is all but a Star Wars film in name where he draws heavily on the basics of The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven

Director: Zack Snyder

Actors: Sofia Boutella, Micheil Huisman, Ed Skrein, Charlie Hunnam, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 January 202413 November 2025 by Roog

New Life (2023)

Rating: ★★

May 25, 2026Deadly Contamination

A thriller about the hunt for the carrier of a deadly mutated form of Ebola. This is a not uninteresting film but it seems stuck in pre-Covid depictions of plague and pandemic

Director: John Rosman

Actors: Sonya Walger, Hayley Erin, Tony Amendola, Jeb Berrier, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 May 202625 May 2026 by Roog