John Fusco Archives

Crossroads (1986)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 8, 2001Blues Music Quest/Pact With The Devil

One of Walter Hill's finest films that sets out in search of the soul of blues music, featuring a superlative performance from Joe Seneca as an aging bluesman who wants back the soul he traded to The Devil for success

Director: Walter Hill

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Robert Judd, …

Category: Fantasy

8 December 200113 January 2026 by Roog

Loch Ness (1996)

Rating: ★★

Nov 24, 2002Quest for the Loch Ness Monster

Big-budget Loch Ness Monster film with a CGI creature made not long after Jurassic Park this only resorts to simplistic cliches

Director: John Henderson

Actors: Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, James Frain, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 November 200211 June 2024 by Roog

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 15, 2002Animation/The Lives of Wild Horses

Beautifully animated DreamWorks film that tells the life of a horse on the Western frontier. For once, anthropological realism is maintained and the animals do not talk

Director: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook

Actors: Matt Damon, Daniel Studi, James Cromwell

Category: Fantasy

15 July 200221 March 2025 by Roog

Dreamkeeper (2003)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 13, 2006American Indian Myths and Legends

Beautifully made and written Hallmark tv mini-series that brings to life several different Native American myths and legends

Director: Steve Barron

Actors: August Schellenberg, Gil Birmingham, Sheila Tousey, Chaske Spencer, …

Category: Fantasy

13 March 200615 October 2025 by Roog

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

Rating: ★

Oct 9, 2008Martial Arts Adventure

Westernised homage to Wu Xia and the Shaw Brothers film with an American teen transported back to Ancient China, this has all the thrill of junior-grade martial arts tournament

Director: Rob Minkoff

Actors: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou, …

Category: Fantasy

9 October 200825 October 2025 by Roog

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)

Rating: ★

Mar 13, 2016Flying Swordsmen Fantasy

A massive letdown of the year. A sequel that brings back several of the original cast and gives it to Yuen Wo-Ping to direct but is merely slickly paced, uninspired action that substitutes CGI for the graceful wirework of the original

Director: Yuen Wo Ping

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Harry Shum Jr, …

Category: Fantasy

13 March 201612 January 2026 by Roog

The Shack (2017)

Rating: ★

May 29, 2017Man Invited to a Meeting with God

This comes with a fantastic conceptual hook "Man is invited to a meeting with God at a hut in the woods". Alas, what we get is no more than a work of faith-based cinema that drowns in its feelgood Christianity Lite sentiments and appeal to Middle American wholesomeness

Director: Stuart Hazeldine

Actors: Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Radha Mitchell, …

Category: Fantasy

29 May 201727 February 2020 by Roog