Marc Forster Archives

Finding Neverland (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jan 16, 2005Peter Pan's Creator Biopic

A biopic about J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan. The film received much acclaim at awards season but in reality is a simplistic work that rewrites J.M. Barrie's biography in favour of a fictional story about what happened

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, …

Category: Fantasy

16 January 20051 February 2026 by Roog

Stay (2005)

Rating: ★★½

Dec 2, 2007Deathdream

Marc Forster film that starts in with a beautifully filmed sense of disquiet mood and eerie reality disjuncts but loses it when it opts for another M. Night Shyamalan twist ending

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts, Bob Hoskins, …

Category: Horror

2 December 200725 March 2025 by Roog

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 26, 2007Man Discovers He is a Fictional Character

Quite reasonable meta-fiction where a surprisingly subdued Will Ferrell discovers he is a character in a novel and tries to rebel against his fate

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, …

Category: Fantasy

26 February 200731 August 2020 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

Christopher Robin (2018)

Rating: ★★

Jan 20, 2019Live-Action Winnie the Pooh Film

A live-action adaptation of the Winnie the Pooh characters. This is a mix of Hook with Christopher grown up and having forgotten about the animals and the Paddington films with the animals conducting slapstick chaos in London

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, …

Category: Fantasy

20 January 20192 January 2026 by Roog