Dede Gardner Archives

The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 20, 2009Time Travel Romance

Film adaptation of the best-selling story about a romance between a woman and a man with the ability to travel through time. Nicely made if not quite holding the emotional involvement the book did

Director: Robert Schwentke

Actors: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Arliss Howard, Tatum McCann, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 October 200927 April 2025 by Roog

The Tree of Life (2011)

Rating: ★★★★½

Jun 4, 2011Lost American Childhood/The Evolution of Life on Earth

Terrence Malick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, maybe the best work yet about the great Lost American Childhood yet - a film that doesn't seem to be about anything but has far more to say than almost all other multiplex films

Director: Terrence Malick

Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, …

Category: Fantasy

4 June 201123 September 2025 by Roog

World War Z (2013)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 22, 2013Zombie Apocalypse

You wonder what this can do with such an overworked genre as the zombie apocalypse. It is not a film that reinvents the wheel for the genre but spins the basics out into an exciting, international locale hopping survival story

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, David Morse, …

Category: Horror

22 June 201321 May 2026 by Roog

Okja (2017)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 23, 2017Genetically-Engineered Super-Pigs

Boon Jong Ho's version of E.T., albeit one where E.T. is a genetically-engineered pig the size of an SUV, not to mention one with an oddball sense of humour that it is hard to imagine being enjoyed by young age groups

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Actors: An Seo Hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 July 201712 April 2025 by Roog

Ad Astra (2019)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 14, 2019Mission to the Outer Reaches of the Solar System

In the same vein as Gravity and The Martian, this depicts spaceflight with scrupulous scientific regard. Essentially Apocalypse Now in space with Brad Pitt on a mission to Neptune to find his father who has gone rogue

Director: James Gray

Actors: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 December 20196 November 2025 by Roog

Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 2, 2024Alien Visitors Satire

A bizarrely funny deadpan satire about aliens that have invaded the Earth and turned humanity into an economic underclass. With possibly the weirdest looking aliens to ever appear in an SF film

Director: Cory Finley

Actors: Asante Blackk, Tiffany Hadish, Kylie Rogers, Josh Hamilton, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 March 202420 June 2026 by Roog

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Rating: ★★

Oct 19, 2024Gonzo Afterlife Comedy

After 36 years and several abortive attempts, Tim Burton, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder reunite to make a sequel to Beetlejuice, but the essentials that fired up the young Burton now feel as they come by the numbers

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Jenna Ortega, …

Category: Fantasy

19 October 202426 November 2025 by Roog

Mickey 17 (2025)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 12, 2025Cloning/Planetary Colonisation

Parasite director Bong Joon Ho makes an ambitious SF film where Robert Pattinson as a clone(s) on a planetary colonisation expedition who becomes embroiled in trying to save an alien species

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Actors: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 April 202525 April 2026 by Roog