David Andrews Archives

Cherry 2000 (1987)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 9, 2001Oddball Post-Holocaust Quest

Overlooked work of considerable charms, this mashes the setting of Mad Max 2 and the plot of The African Queen with a sense of oddball humour. The show is stolen by Melanie Griffith as a tough wasteland tracker

Director: Steve De Jarnatt

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 September 20011 January 2026 by Roog

Graveyard Shift (1990)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2002Giant Rat/Stephen King Adaptation

From a Stephen King short story about mill workers facing a giant rat, this has become one of the most ridiculed of all King adaptations. Everything takes place with absurdly over-the-top melodrama

Director: Ralph S. Singleton

Actors: David Andrews, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif

Category: Horror

6 December 200218 July 2025 by Roog

Under Pressure (1997)

Rating: ★★★

May 8, 2001Psycho Next-Door Neighbour Snaps

Modestly effective psycho-thriller with Charlie Sheen in his first psycho role as a fireman who snaps under the pressures of everyday life and threatens his neighbour

Director: Craig R. Baxley

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Mare Winningham, David Andrews, Noah Fleiss, …

Category: Horror

8 May 200128 June 2019 by Roog

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Rating: ★

Jul 22, 2003Time-Travelling Killer Androids

After the highs of James Cameron’s first two Terminator films, this was a crashing disappointment. Schwarzenegger is back but his performance has become self-parody and the uninspired action sequences are accompanied by some terrible effects

Director: Jonathan Mostow

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 July 20039 April 2025 by Roog

World War Z (2013)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 22, 2013Zombie Apocalypse

I went into this wondering what new things it could find to do with such an overworked genre as the zombie apocalypse but ended up gently surprised. Not a film that reinvents the wheel for the zombie genre but spins the basics out into a tight, exciting, international locale hopping survival story

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, David Morse, …

Category: Horror

22 June 201313 June 2025 by Roog

Jessabelle (2014)

Rating: ★★

Dec 7, 2014Haunted Southern Home

Ghost story from one of the directors of the Saw sequels that settles in with halfway reasonable build-up. On the other hand, the few spooky scenes never go anywhere, before the film is killed off by an improbable left field twist ending

Director: Kevin Greutert

Actors: Sarah Snook, Mark Webber, David Andrews, Joelle Carter, …

Category: Horror

7 December 201431 October 2023 by Roog