Dean Cundey Archives

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 6, 1999Time Travel

Third of the Back to the Future films, which takes everything back in time to the Old West. Probably the slightest of the trilogy by a tiny margin, this nevertheless goes out with a rousing farewell

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, …

Category: Science Fiction

6 August 19996 November 2020 by Roog

Apollo 13 (1995)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 31, 2000True-Life Space Mission Disaster

Probably the best among Ron Howard's mostly undistinguished oeuvre of films, a dramatisation of the real-life Apollo 13 space mission disaster. Once the film gets the capsule up into orbit, the drama is gripping

Director: Ron Howard

Actors: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 July 20007 September 2019 by Roog

Flubber (1997)

Rating: ★★

Jan 1, 2000Absent-Minded Professor Remake

Remake of Disney’s The Absent-Minded Professor where the charms of the original are buried under an excess of twee - where the professor now gets a cute robot assistant and the flubber becomes sentient and highly imitative

Director: Les Mayfield

Actors: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Jodi Benson, Christopher McDonald, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 January 200013 September 2022 by Roog

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! (1997)

Rating: ★★

Jul 30, 2000Miniaturised Adventures

The second sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Things are feeling uninspired where this just repeats the first film where he it is the adults that are shrunken

Director: Dean Cundey

Actors: Rick Moranis, Stuart Pankin, Eve Gordon, Bug Hall, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 July 20001 November 2025 by Roog