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Alpha (2018)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 15, 2019Prehistoric Adventure

The prehistoric film seems a bit dated and hoary on screen these days. Albert Hughes solves the problem of revitalising the genre a series of jaw-droppingly kinetic action moves and stunning hyper-real landscapes

Director: Albert Hughes

Actors: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Johannes Haukur Johanesson, Marcin Kowakczyk, Natassia Malthe, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 February 20197 August 2020 by Roog

Fantasy Island (2020)

Rating: ★★

Apr 25, 2020TV Series Remake/Island That Makes Fantasies Come True

The big screen remake of the popular 70s/80s tv series about an island that makes guests fantasies come true. In the hands of Blumhouse, this has now been turned into a horror film

Director: Jeff Wadlow

Actors: Michael Peña, Lucy Hale, Maggie Q, Austin Stowell, …

Category: Fantasy

25 April 202017 January 2026 by Roog

The Craft: Legacy (2020)

Rating: ★★

Jan 16, 2021Teen Witches

Blumhouse revival of/sequel to The Craft, the film about a quartet of teenage witches. This updates the original to the modern era in ways the original never did

Director: Zoe Lister-Jones

Actors: Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna, …

Category: Fantasy, Horror

16 January 202110 March 2025 by Roog

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 15, 2022Team of Spook Chasers Comedy

Sequel to Ghostbusters that was far better received than the 2016 reboot, giving us a new generation of ghostbusters. This succeeds largely by playing the nostalgia card for all it can

Director: Jason Reitman

Actors: McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, …

Category: Fantasy

15 January 202222 February 2026 by Roog

Peter Rabbit 2 (2021)

Rating: ★

Oct 3, 2022Talking Animals

The first Peter Rabbit film was an abomination that trashed Beatrix Potter’s genteel stories. It made this site’s Worst of 2018 list. This is a sequel

Director: Will Gluck

Actors: Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, David Oyelowo, James Corden, …

Category: Fantasy

3 October 20223 October 2022 by Roog

Morbius (2022)

Rating: ★★

May 28, 2022Marvel Comics Vampire

Sony’s attempts to wring everything possible from the Spider-Man copyright in order to compete with the MCU continue with this film devoted to the Spider-Man vampire villain

Director: Daniel Espinosa

Actors: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, …

Category: Horror

28 May 202221 March 2024 by Roog

65 (2023)

Rating: ★

Apr 15, 2023Trapped on Prehistoric Earth

This seemed to have a lot of promise in its set-up of Adam Driver crashlanded in Earth’s prehistoric past fighting off dinosaurs

Director: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck

Actors: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King

Category: Science Fiction

15 April 202319 December 2024 by Roog

Kraven the Hunter (2024)

Rating: ★

Jan 25, 2025Marvel Comics Superhero

Another of Sony’s films spun off from Spider-Man supporting characters. In the comics, Kraven is a Spider-Man super-villain with a big game hunter motif but here is turned into a superhero

Director: J.C. Chandor

Actors: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Russell Crowe, Alessandro Nivola, …

Category: Fantasy

25 January 202514 June 2026 by Roog

28 Years Later … The Bone Temple (2026)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 28, 2026Post-Holocaust/The Zombie Apocalypse

A follow-up to 28 Years Later …, made even before the first film was released. This gives a deeper exploration of the character of Dr Kelson and proves a surprisingly good complement to its predecessor

Director: Nia DaCosta

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Chi Lewis-Parry, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

28 February 202628 February 2026 by Roog