Harold Ramis Archives

Ghostbusters (1984)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 16, 2000Team of Spook Chasers Comedy

An overrated classic that is nevertheless an undeniable fixture of 1980s pop culture. Overlong, it is largely carried through Bill Murray's lazy sarcasm and the sterling work from the visual effects team

Director: Ivan Reitman

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, …

Category: Fantasy

16 December 200022 February 2026 by Roog

Ghostbusters II (1989)

Rating: ★★

Feb 1, 2002Team of Spook Chasers Comedy

A weak follow-up to the hit original that essentially killed off any further Ghostbusters sequels. Most of the the cast are back but the plot and proceedings feel like a walk-through for all involved.

Director: Ivan Reitman

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, …

Category: Fantasy

1 February 200222 February 2026 by Roog

Rover Dangerfield (1991)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 9, 2005Animation/Talking Dog's Adventures

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield writes, produces and voices the role of a dog in this surprisingly charming and likeable animated film, the best and lest recognised film Dangerfield ever made

Director: Bob Seeley, Jim George

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Dana Hill, Gregg Berger, Sal Landi, …

Category: Fantasy

9 September 20055 March 2025 by Roog

Groundhog Day (1993)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 2, 2000Timeloop Comedy

Winning comedy with Bill Murray trapped in a timeloop and forced to repeat the same day over. Murray is at a career-peak best and served by a great script. The surprise is how much the timeloop theme was copied by subsequent films

Director: Harold Ramis

Actors: Bill Murray, Andie McDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, …

Category: Fantasy

2 January 200017 November 2025 by Roog

Multiplicity (1996)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 2, 2003Cloning Comedy

Harold Ramis followed up the hit of Groundhog Day with this amiable comedy in which Michael Keaton is an overworked husband who creates several clones of himself to help with the workload

Director: Harold Ramis

Actors: Michael Keaton, Andie McDowell, Harris Yulin, Richard Masur, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 September 200314 October 2025 by Roog

Bedazzled (2000)

Rating: ★

Oct 20, 2000Pact with the Devil Comedy

US remake of the British comedy where Brendan Fraser is a schmuck who sells his soul to The Devil who twists the wording of each wish. The bite of the original is lacking

Director: Harold Ramis

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor

Category: Fantasy

20 October 200011 July 2026 by Roog

Year One (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2010Cavemen Stumble Through the Old Testament Comedy

Not very funny comedy from Harold Ramis and Judd Apatow where Jack Black and Michael Cera are cavemen who stumble through many incidents from the Old Testament

Director: Harold Ramis

Actors: Jack Black, Michael Cera, David Cross, Oliver Platt, …

Category: Fantasy

30 January 201017 June 2025 by Roog

Ghostbusters (2016)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 23, 2016Team of Spook Chasers Comedy

There was a lot of hate centred on this for recasting what is considered a classic film with an all-girl cast. It emerges mostly likeably, no better, no worse on the whole, where the new ensemble make a solid showing

Director: Paul Feig

Actors: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, …

Category: Fantasy

23 July 201623 May 2026 by Roog