Gillian Jacobs Archives

The Box (2009)

Rating: ★

Nov 14, 2009Mysterious Stranger Offers Couple a Terrible Choice

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly adapts a Richard Matheson story about a couple who are offered a terrible choice by a stranger but delivers a bafflingly incomprehensible film

Director: Richard Kelly

Actors: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Holmes Osborne, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 November 200930 June 2025 by Roog

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

Rating: ★★

Jul 15, 2012End of the World Romantic Comedy

The End of the World seems the least likely backdrop for a romantic comedy. Newcomer Lorene Scafaria seems less interested in depicting social collapse than in making an insipid romcom road movie with two leads who fail to strike up any connection

Director: Lorene Scafaria

Actors: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Connie Britton, Adam Brody, …

Category: Science Fiction

15 July 201217 September 2020 by Roog

Bad Milo! (2013)

Rating: ★½

Dec 13, 2013Demon Inhabits a Man's Ass Comedy

A comedy about a demon that appears out of a man's ass!!! This has the dementia to be a potential midnight cult hit but misses the mark by a wide mile and stumbles around obvious targets in predictable ways

Director: Jacob Vaughan

Actors: Ken Marino, Peter Stormare, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton, …

Category: Horror

13 December 201324 November 2025 by Roog

Visions (2015)

Rating: ★★

Apr 8, 2016Clairvoyant Visions

Another effort from the near-ubiquitous Blumhouse horror company. A film that teases many things – occult rituals, cultists after the pregnant heroine's baby – that prove red herrings as it eventually telescopes down to a frustratingly ordinary explanation

Director: Kevin Greutert

Actors: Isla Fisher, Anson Mount, Gillian Jacobs, Joanna Cassidy, …

Category: Horror

8 April 201631 October 2023 by Roog

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)

Rating: ★

Feb 22, 2015Time Travel Comedy

Why we needed a sequel to Hot Tub Time Machine is a big question. Essentially, Back to the Future Part II meets The Hangover, all this does is wind the original's amiable coarseness up by a factor of ten

Director: Steve Pink

Actors: Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Adam Scott, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 February 20151 November 2025 by Roog

Come Play (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 7, 2021Sinister Entity from a Child's E-book

This is a surprisingly good film that generates quite a degree of spooky eeriness concerning a child on the autism spectrum and the sinister entity inside his tablet that just wants to be his friend

Director: Jacob Chase

Actors: Azhy Robertson, Gillian Jacobs, John Gallagher Jr, Winslow Fegley, …

Category: Horror

7 February 20217 January 2026 by Roog

Fear Street 1978 (2021)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 31, 2021Slasher Homage/R.L. Stine Adaptation

The second of the R.L. Stine adapted Fear Street films, this one takes the action back to 1978 where it then becomes a vigorous homage to the slasher film

Director: Leigh Janiak

Actors: Emily Rudd, Sadie Sink, Ted Sutherland, Ryan Simpkins, …

Category: Horror

31 July 20211 February 2026 by Roog

Fear Street 1666 (2021)

Rating: ★

Jul 31, 2021Witch Persecution/R.L. Stine Adaptation

The third of the Fear Street films, this takes the story back to a 17th Century filled with absurdly modern attitudes and offers an explanation that ties everything together

Director: Leigh Janiak

Actors: Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr, …

Category: Horror

31 July 202121 October 2025 by Roog