Peter MacDonald Archives

Solarbabies (1986)

Rating: ★

Jan 20, 2005Post-Holocaust Teen Sports Team

Embarrassingly bad Mel Brooks produced film that seems to have been conceived in terms of conducting a juvenile Mad Max film on rollerskates and throwing SF cliches about without any coherent script

Director: Alan Johnson

Actors: Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Lukas Haas, James Le Gros, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 January 200520 July 2019 by Roog

The Neverending Story III (1994)

Rating: ★

Nov 20, 2000Adventures in a Fantasy Land

Abysmal third entry in the series. The creatures lack any conviction and everything is wrecked by taking the story out of Fantasia back to Earth amid hip contemporary jokes

Director: Peter MacDonald

Actors: Jason James Richter, Jack Black, Kevin McNulty, Freddie Jones, …

Category: Fantasy

20 November 200015 May 2020 by Roog

The Monkey King (2001)

Rating: ★½

Dec 22, 2005Epic Chinese Legend

A tv mini-series adaptation of the famous Chinese legend Journey to the West made for US audiences by Hallmark Entertainment. The story remains stolidly earthbound and the meta-fictional contortions the story has to add to engage in to have the monk hero replaced by a contemporary Thomas Gibson are bizarre

Director: Peter MacDonald

Actors: Thomas Gibson, Bai Ling, Russell Wong, Eddie Marsan, …

Category: Fantasy

22 December 20056 October 2025 by Roog