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Natural Born Killers (1994)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 11, 2000Mass Murder Spree

Oliver Stone film with Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as a couple on an ultra-violent mass murder spree. Stone gets heavy-handedly preachy but directs with an excess of style that proves enormously entertaining

Director: Oliver Stone

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr, Tommy Lee Jones, …

Category: Horror

11 September 200030 December 2020 by Roog

Bogus (1996)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 23, 1999Child's Invisible Companion

Sweetly likeable Norman Jewison film in which Whoopi Goldberg receives guardianship of young Haley Joel Osment only to find he has an invisible companion in Gerard Depardieu

Director: Norman Jewison

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Nancy Travis, …

Category: Fantasy

23 April 199923 February 2020 by Roog

Joy Ride (2001)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 5, 2001Road Movie Psycho-Thriller

Teens on a road trip play a practical joke using an old CB radio but prank a psychopathic truck driver. A film where director John Dahl delivers the goods with considerable style

Director: John Dahl

Actors: Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, Jim Beaver

Category: Horror

5 October 200125 November 2023 by Roog

Life or Something Like It (2002)

Rating: ★

May 24, 2009Woman Receives a Prophecy of Her Death

Bland romantic comedy with a miscast Angelina Jolie as a tv newswoman who receives a prophecy of her death and begins to reconsider her life

Director: Stephen Herek

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, James Gammon, …

Category: Fantasy

24 May 20099 March 2023 by Roog

Daredevil (2003)

Rating: ★★

Apr 12, 2003Blind Comic-Book Superhero

One of the early efforts among the surge of Marvel Comics adaptations on the big screen in the early 2000s. A disappointing adaptation that feels more like a series of posed comic-book panels than it ever does a movie

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Jon Favreau, …

Category: Fantasy

12 April 200325 April 2025 by Roog

Elektra (2005)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 31, 2005Comic-Book Assassin Superheroine

A spinoff from the film version of Daredevil, this gives the comic-book character of the super-assassin Elektra her own film. This does not have a very good rap but comes with some solid action scenes

Director: Rob Bowman

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Terence Stamp, …

Category: Fantasy

31 January 200530 January 2026 by Roog

Just My Luck (2006)

Rating: ½

Jun 21, 2006Good Luck-Bad Luck Teen Romantic Comedy

A painfully unfunny Lindsay Lohan romcom in which she has good luck and Chris Pine has bad luck and they swap after a kiss. Lohan seems to regard this as an exercise in her adulation

Director: Donald Petrie

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Faizon Love, Samaire Armstrong, …

Category: Fantasy

21 June 200616 May 2026 by Roog

The Fountain (2006)

Rating: ★★

Feb 26, 2007Mystical Quest for Immortality

Darren Aronofsky's version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. A cryptic and baffling story that takes place in three different eras, all featuring the same actors. Aronofsky engages in much symbolic interplay but what is happening is a scratch of the head

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Fernando Hernandez, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 February 20076 June 2025 by Roog

Date Movie (2006)

Rating: ★

Mar 13, 2006Romance Movie Parody

The first film from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, a parody of a various romance movies. The duo went on to make some of the excruciating and unfunny comedies of the next decade

Director: Aaron Seltzer

Actors: Alyson Hannigan, Eddie Griffin, Adam Campbell, Sophie Monk, …

Category: Fantasy

13 March 200626 June 2020 by Roog

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

Rating: ★

Nov 10, 2006Stalker Superheroine Comedy

Unfunny Ivan Reitman comedy with Luke Wilson being stalked by his psychotic superheorine ex Uma Thurman

Director: Ivan Reitman

Actors: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 November 200617 April 2021 by Roog

Epic Movie (2007)

Rating: ★

Feb 11, 2007Parodies of Various Films

Probably the worst of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer witless and painfully unfunny films – this just consists of a series of vulgar gags run over a bunch of scenes from films that came out in the last twelve months

Director: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg

Actors: Adam Campbell, Kal Penn, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, …

Category: Fantasy

11 February 200725 November 2023 by Roog

Mirrors (2008)

Rating: ★★

Nov 22, 2008Haunted Mirrors

Alexandre Aja film about haunted mirrors. Aja is more a director of physical horror and seems less attuned to the supernatural mood

Director: Alexandre Aja

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce, …

Category: Horror

22 November 200812 September 2024 by Roog

Meet the Spartans (2008)

Rating: ½

Feb 3, 2008Parodies of Various Films

The painfully unfunny films of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are movie parodies, mostly a random assortment of films and celebrities of the last six months run over with crude and vulgar jokes. In this case, they take on parodying principally 300

Director: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg

Actors: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Kevin Sorbo, Ken Davitian, …

Category: Fantasy

3 February 200810 October 2023 by Roog

Shutter (2008)

Rating: ★

Mar 29, 2008Haunted Photographs

An English-language remake of a Thai horror film about haunted photographs. Another by-the-numbers remake that is a pale shadow of its original

Director: Masayuki Ochiai

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, Megumi Okina, David Denman, …

Category: Horror

29 March 20087 October 2021 by Roog

Jumper (2008)

Rating: ★★

Feb 23, 2008Mental Teleportation Abilities

Doug Liman makes a film that has a great concept – a secret world of people with the mental ability to teleport anywhere – that emerges as no more than a slickly polished effort that does nothing with its premise

Director: Doug Liman

Actors: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 February 20085 February 2022 by Roog

Vampires Suck (2010)

Rating: ★

Aug 15, 2010Twilight Series Parody

The movie parodies of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer witlessly run a series of crude, unfunny gags over films and celebrities of the previous twelve months vintage. Here they take on the Twilight series

Director: Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg

Actors: Jenn Proske, Matt Lanter, Diedrich Bader, Crista Flanagan, …

Category: Horror

15 August 201028 May 2025 by Roog

The Darkest Hour (2011)

Rating: ★★

Jan 20, 2012Alien Invasion

An alien invasion film set in Moscow. This is nothing more than a special effects vehicle about how the culturally self-absorbed twentysomething computer geeks and party girls save the world

Director: Chris Gorak

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 January 201227 February 2026 by Roog

In Time (2011)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 4, 2011Dystopian Future

Niccol has a smartness that makes him a must-watch director. Considerable conceptual dexterity has gone into this variant on Logan's Run set in a future in which time is regarded as a currency

Director: Andrew Niccol

Actors: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, …

Category: Science Fiction

4 November 201117 April 2026 by Roog

A Cure for Wellness (2016)

Rating: ★★

Jun 4, 2017Sinister Health Sanatorium

From Gore Verbinski, director of The Ring and the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, a film about a sinister health sanatorium. A beautiful looking film but it is a long time before we ever find out what is going on

Director: Gore Verbinski

Actors: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi, Celia Imrie, …

Category: Horror

4 June 201721 March 2026 by Roog

Assassin’s Creed (2016)

Rating: ★★

Mar 4, 2017Videogame Adaptation/Quest Through Past Lives

Adaptation of the popular videogame that is lumbered with the game's inherently uncinematic premise where people only sit around and watch what has already happened in the past

Director: Justin Kurzel

Actors: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, …

Category: Fantasy

4 March 201719 November 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

The Northman (2022)

Rating: ★★★★

May 21, 2022Viking Film

Robert Eggers, the director who made The Witch and The Lighthouse, makes a violent, primal Viking film steeped in Norse mythology

Director: Robert Eggers

Actors: Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Claes Bang, Nicole Kidman, …

Category: Fantasy

21 May 20222 August 2025 by Roog

The Creator (2023)

Rating: ★★★★½

Nov 25, 2023Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Gareth Edwards, the director of Monsters and Godzilla, makes a genre-defining work about robotics and artificial intelligence set in a stunningly detailed future world. This site's Top Film for 2023

Director: Gareth Edwards

Actors: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 November 202314 January 2026 by Roog