Michael De Luca Productions Archives

Ghost Rider (2007)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 26, 2007Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero

Film adaptation of Marvel Comics' demon superhero emerges as better than it had the right to be. The risibility of the image of a motorcycle-riding demon hero is made to work through some vivid and way-out effects

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Peter Fonda, Wes Bentley, …

Category: Fantasy

26 March 200722 February 2026 by Roog

Fright Night (2011)

Rating: ★★

Aug 27, 2011Vampire Next Door Neighbour

Another 1980s horror remake that resurrects and changes the original to little purpose. This fails to understand that what was original in 1985 lacks much alongside other contemporary vampire films

Director: Craig Gillespie

Actors: Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, David Tennant, Imogen Poots, …

Category: Horror

27 August 201112 August 2026 by Roog

Priest (2011)

Rating: ★★

May 20, 2011Future World of Vampires

This spends much effort creating an imaginative future where priests battle vampires who are banished to reservations only to do nothing with it other than reach for the tropes of the Western

Director: Scott Stewart

Actors: Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, …

Category: Horror

20 May 201124 August 2021 by Roog

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)

Rating: ★

Mar 8, 2012Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero

Ridiculous sequel to the Marvel Comics adaptation with an indifferently written script assembled from cliches, forgettable action scenes and Nicolas Cage giving one of his silliest performances in ages

Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ciaran Hinds, Idris Elba, Violante Placido, …

Category: Fantasy

8 March 201215 October 2024 by Roog

Childhood’s End (2015)

Rating: ★

Jan 17, 2016Alien Visitors/Arthur C. Clarke Adaptation

Arthur C. Clarke's book is one of the all-time SF classics; this mini-series adaptation counts as one of the biggest book-to-film abortions in the SF genre handled by people who know nothing about SF

Director: Nick Hurran

Actors: Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Charles Dance, Daisy Betts, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 January 201629 May 2026 by Roog

Reminiscence (2021)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 4, 2021Memory Retrieval Device/Future Noir

Lisa Joy, co-creator of tv’s Westworld, directs a work of future noir in an ingenious plot involving a memory recording device and Hugh Jackman obsessed with a missing woman

Director: Lisa Joy

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandie/Thandiwe Newton, Cliff Curtis, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 September 202130 October 2022 by Roog