Eric Fellner Archives

Loch Ness (1996)

Rating: ★★

Nov 24, 2002Quest for the Loch Ness Monster

Big-budget film with a CGI creature made not long after Jurassic Park with Ted Danson as a zoologist investigating the existence of the Loch Ness Monster film. This only resorts to simplistic cliches

Director: John Henderson

Actors: Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, James Frain, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 November 200228 June 2026 by Roog

The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 16, 2001Film Noir Thriller/UFOs

Coen Brothers black comedy with Billy Bob Thornton as an anonymous barber in the 1940s on the receiving end of life's cruelties as he becomes involved in a blackmail scheme and murder

Director: Coen Brothers

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 November 20015 January 2025 by Roog

Johnny English (2003)

Rating: ★

May 5, 2003Incompetent Spy Comedy

Spy movie parody with Rowan Atkinson as an inept agent who is constantly tripping over his own feet. It is Austin Powers reconceived as a Mr Bean film but offering little that is funny.

Director: Peter Howitt

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Tim Piggott-Smith

Category: Science Fiction

5 May 200330 March 2020 by Roog

Thunderbirds (2004)

Rating: ★

Sep 21, 2004Hi-Tech Rescue Organisation/TV Series Remake

This live-action film version of the cult Gerry Anderson puppet series is a disaster. Great effort is made to replicate the look of the original but the film is killed by the choice to rewrite everything as a modern formula kid’s movie

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Anthony Edwards, Bill Paxton, Brady Corbet, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 September 200422 August 2021 by Roog

Nanny McPhee (2005)

Rating: ★★

Jan 7, 2006Magical Nanny

Emma Thompson written and starring adaptation of a series of children's books comes across as a lesser copy of Mary Poppins. A film that feels like it should have been more than it ends up being.

Director: Kirk Jones

Actors: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald, Angela Lansbury, …

Category: Fantasy

7 January 200610 March 2023 by Roog

Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang (2010)

Rating: ★★

Sep 16, 2010Magical Nanny

I never much cared for Nanny McPhee. This is a sequel that replicates the original in fairly much the same amount mix of plot elements, slapstick sequences and nonsensical absurdism

Director: Susanna White

Actors: Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans, Asa Butterfield, …

Category: Fantasy

16 September 201016 January 2025 by Roog

Johnny English Reborn (2011)

Rating: ★½

Nov 3, 2011Incompetent Spy Comedy

Rowan Atkinson is a very funny man but try as I might I cannot get into these Johnny English films - they seem at best lame Austin Powers castoffs with gags designed for the single digit age range

Director: Oliver Parker

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Gillian Anderson, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 November 201122 October 2020 by Roog

The World’s End (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 23, 2013Alien Body Snatchers Comedy

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the trio behind Shaun of the Dead, return to conduct a very similar effort – the story of a pub crawl that is affectionately mocking the characters' nowhere lives, before taking an abrupt dogleg turn to become a comedic take on the alien body snatchers film

Director: Edgar Wright

Actors: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 August 201318 December 2025 by Roog

About Time (2013)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 3, 2013Time Travel Romantic Comedy

Time travel film that feels like a romantic comedy version of The Time Traveler's Wife (with Rachel McAdams in the same role in both films). Played with a good deal of feelgood warmth and likeability by all

Director: Richard Curtis

Actors: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, …

Category: Fantasy

3 November 20136 November 2025 by Roog

The Snowman (2017)

Rating: ★★

Dec 24, 2017Norwegian Serial Killer Thriller

International production based on a series of books about a Norwegian detective. This flopped badly and was called confusing. Mostly, it is a serial killer thriller that fails to hold you gripped with its unfoldings

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Actors: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonas Karlsson, …

Category: Horror

24 December 201724 July 2026 by Roog

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

Rating: ★★

Feb 11, 2021Incompetent Spy Comedy

Rowan Atkinson in his third outing as the inept spy. Atkinson is a talented comic but these Johnny English films, which are like less sophisticated versions of Peter Sellers’ Inspector Closeau, are the least of his comedy incarnations

Director: David Kerr

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson, Ben Miller, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 February 202113 May 2026 by Roog

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 29, 2021Modern-Day Arthurian Legends

Joe Cornish gained much buzz with Attack the Block. His follow-up film concerns a kid who inherits Excalibur. Cornish has fun translating elements of the Arthurian legends to the present-day

Director: Joe Cornish

Actors: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Patrick Stewart, Angus Imrie, Rebecca Ferguson, …

Category: Fantasy

29 March 202115 June 2026 by Roog

Yesterday (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 21, 2019Alternate History Where The Beatles Never Existed

Feelgood Danny Boyle film that most audiences missed was also an alternate history film set in a world where The Beatles never existed and one sideslipped singer is able to claim their songs as his own

Director: Danny Boyle

Actors: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Joel Fry, Ed Sheeran, …

Category: Fantasy

21 September 20198 August 2025 by Roog

Last Night in Soho (2021)

Rating: ★★★½

Nov 27, 2021Ghosts of 1960s Soho

Edgar Wright creates a dazzlingly stylish recreation of 1960s London in a work with Thomasine McKenzie as a modern girl haunted by ghosts of the era’s dark underside

Director: Edgar Wright

Actors: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, …

Category: Horror

27 November 202118 December 2025 by Roog

The Substance (2024)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 25, 2024Rejuvenation Serum/Alternate Youthful Self

An absurdly over-the-top film where aging Demi Moore takes a serum that turns her into a youthful Margaret Qualley. A ridiculous film that for some reason did well at awards season

Director: Coralie Fargeat

Actors: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Edward Hamilton Clark, …

Category: Horror

25 October 202430 July 2026 by Roog

The Sheep Detectives (2026)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 3, 2026Talking Sheep Detective Story

This has one of the most off the wall premises in some time – talking sheep team up to act as detectives and solve the murder of their shepherd. Think Babe meets Agatha Christie. The results are hilarious

Director: Kyle Balda

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Braun, Molly Gordon, Nicholas Galitzine, …

Category: Fantasy

3 July 20263 July 2026 by Roog