Embeth Davidtz Archives

Army of Darkness (1992)

Rating: ★★

Jun 5, 2000Evil Dead Sequel/War with the Dead/Horror Comedy

Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell make their third Evil Dead film. The series hit a peak with the delirious balance of horror and comedy in the second film but here the comedy over-balances and becomes too broad

Director: Sam Raimi

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, …

Category: Horror

5 June 200019 November 2025 by Roog

Matilda (1996)

Rating: ★★

May 5, 2003Gifted Child/Roald Dahl Adaptation

Danny DeVito directs an adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel with Mara Wilson as a mentally gifted child. In DeVito's hands, Roald Dahl's black bite overbalances into broad farce

Director: Danny DeVito

Actors: Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris, Danny DeVito, …

Category: Fantasy

5 May 200324 February 2026 by Roog

Fallen (1998)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 1, 2000Cop vs Body-Hopping Demon

A smart and intelligent supernatural thriller with Denzel Washington cast as a detective who sends a serial killer to the execution chamber only to find he now faces a demon that can inhabit any person that it touches

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Embeth Davidtz, Donald Sutherland, …

Category: Horror

1 February 200027 February 2026 by Roog

Simon Magus (1999)

Rating: ★★★

May 22, 2001Orthodox Jewish Village/Visions of the Devil

Film set in a small 19th Century Orthodox Jewish village struggling to deal with the modern world, featuring Noah Taylor as a fool troubled by visions of The Devil

Director: Ben Hopkins

Actors: Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend, Rutger Hauer, Sean McGinley, …

Category: Fantasy

22 May 200119 December 2021 by Roog

Bicentennial Man (1999)

Rating: ★

Dec 21, 1999Robot Gains Self-Awareness/Isaac Asimov Adaptation

Isaac Asimov may not have been the best science-fiction writer ever but his stories buzzed with challenging ideas. In the hands of Chris Columbus, one of Asimov's robot stories is reduced to mawkish sentimentalism

Director: Chris Columbus

Actors: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 December 199927 November 2025 by Roog

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Rating: ★★

Oct 28, 2001Haunted House

After the success of their remake of House on Haunted Hill, Dark Castle Entertainment remade another William Castle film here, expanding it with a full arsenal of visual and makeup effects with intermittently impressive results

Director: Steve Beck

Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, …

Category: Horror

28 October 200122 August 2019 by Roog

The Hole (2001)

Rating: ★★

Nov 1, 2002Imprisonment and Subjective Truth Psycho-Thriller

British psycho-thriller about teenagers trapped inside a bunker. This does an interesting mid-film twist to offer an entirely different version of the story but never rises above the middle-of-the-road

Director: Nick Hamm

Actors: Thora Birch, Keira Knightley, Desmond Harrington, Embeth Davidtz, …

Category: Horror

1 November 20028 April 2026 by Roog

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 2, 2012Comic-Book Superhero

The reasoning behind rebooting the Spider-Man franchise after ten years and only three films is a puzzle. That said, this offers an edgier origin story than Sam Raimi's take and Andrew Garfield makes for a fine Spider-Man

Director: Marc Webb

Actors: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 July 201224 November 2025 by Roog

Europa Report (2013)

Rating: ★★

Nov 24, 2013Space Expedition

A groundedly realistic film about an expedition to search for life on Europa that that emerges as a disappointment coming soon after the similar space-based Gravity

Director: Sebastian Cordero

Actors: Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Anamaria Marinca, Daniel Wu, …

Category: Science Fiction

24 November 201319 October 2025 by Roog

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Rating: ★★★★

May 3, 2014Comic-Book Superhero

One of the best among the modern Marvel Comics screen adaptations. All involved are at the absolute peak of their game and the balance of superheroic action, humour and tragedy makes you cheer at how well they get it right

Director: Marc Webb

Actors: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 May 201430 October 2025 by Roog

Old (2021)

Rating: ★★★½

Oct 1, 2021Beach Where People Rapidly Age

M. Night Shyamalan gets more of a bad rap than he is due. I am happy to argue that this, which is set around a beach where people rapidly age, is one of his best films to date

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

1 October 20215 September 2024 by Roog