Jack Noseworthy Archives

Barb Wire (1996)

Rating: ★★

Nov 21, 2003Anarchic Future/Leather-Clad Bimbo

Enjoyably silly comic-book adaptation with a pneumatically-inflated Pamela Anderson playing the titular bounty hunter in an anarchic future. You cannot complain that this is a film that delivers exactly what it promises

Director: David Hogan

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Temuera Morrison, Steve Railsback, Xander Berkeley, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 November 200325 November 2025 by Roog

Event Horizon (1997)

Rating: ★★

Jun 29, 2008Haunted Spaceship

Paul W.S. Anderson puts together a well-produced and atmospheric copy of Alien, However, this also comes with a premise - spaceship returns after travelling through Hell - that is nonsensical

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 June 200819 October 2025 by Roog

Idle Hands (1999)

Rating: ★

Jun 29, 1999Possessed/Disembodied Hand

Surely the first slacker horror film in which teenager Devon Sawa's hand becomes possessed. A comedy that should have been a lot funnier than it is

Director: Rodman Flender

Actors: Devon Sawa, Jessica Alba, Seth Green, Eldon Henson, …

Category: Horror

29 June 199913 July 2022 by Roog

Surrogates (2009)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 2, 2009Future Where People Inhabit Avatar Bodies

Interesting conceptual SF film where the populace of the future inhabit a series of perfect avatar bodies. Despite a few logical quibbles with the premise, this does a good job in exploring the idea of such a world

Director: Jonathan Mostow

Actors: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 November 200931 July 2019 by Roog