Eva Mendes Archives

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)

Rating: ★★

Jun 2, 2021Pagan Child Cult

Quite who the audience for these Children of the Corn films is that they keep making more of them is a mystery. This was the fifth of eleven films and at least better than the last two entries

Director: Ethan Wiley

Actors: Eva Mendes, Alexis Arquette, David Carradine, Adam Wylie, …

Category: Horror

2 June 202126 September 2025 by Roog

Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

Rating: ★★

Sep 19, 2000Slasher Film

Sequel fairly much in name only to Urban Legend and barely at all about urban legends, this has the amusing idea of taking place at a film school and features a number of sly asides. This alas befalls routine direction

Director: John Ottman

Actors: Jennifer Morrison, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine, Eva Mendes, …

Category: Horror

19 September 200026 May 2025 by Roog

Ghost Rider (2007)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 26, 2007Comic-Book Avenger/Demonic Superhero

Film adaptation of Marvel Comics' demon superhero emerges as better than it had the right to be. The risibility of the image of a motorcycle-riding demon hero is made to work through some vivid and way-out effects

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Peter Fonda, Wes Bentley, …

Category: Fantasy

26 March 200722 February 2026 by Roog

The Spirit (2008)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 11, 2009Comic-Book Superhero

A real head-scratcher. Legendary comic-book writer Frank Miller of Sin City fame directs an adaptation of the famous Will Eisner comic-book. A completely madcap film that should be rediscovered as a cult classic any day now

Director: Frank Miller

Actors: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson, …

Category: Fantasy

11 January 200917 July 2019 by Roog

Holy Motors (2012)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 27, 2012Surrealism/Man's Cryptic Journey Through Various Disguises

Genuinely mind-screwing effort from Leos Carax. Imagine a version of Cosmopolis as hijacked by Alejandro Jodorowsky - a series of surreal vignettes that arrives at a major "huh?" ending

Director: Leos Carax

Actors: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, …

Category: Fantasy

27 October 201219 March 2026 by Roog