Sam Jones Archives

Flash Gordon (1980)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 20, 2000Campy Space Opera

Dino de Laurentiis climbed aboard the Star Wars fad with this remake of the classic serial. Against expectation, the film's campy tone and eye-popping sets and costumes work and it has become an audience favourite

Director: Mike Hodges

Actors: Sam Jones, Max Von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, …

Category: Science Fiction

20 June 200024 February 2026 by Roog

The Spirit (1987)

Rating: ★★

Nov 27, 2018Comic-Book Superhero

Few people today have an idea of what a huge name comic-book creator Will Eisner was. This was an unsold tv pilot adaptation of Eisner's most famous creation, the masked hero The Spirit. The pilot is not a very successful effort but at least it makes an effort to get many of the details and zany spirit of the comic right

Director: Michael Schultz

Actors: Sam Jones, Nana Visitor, Bumper Robinson, Philip Baker Hall

Category: Fantasy

27 November 201827 November 2024 by Roog

Dead Sexy (2001)

Rating: ★★

May 10, 2009Erotica/Psycho-Thriller

Erotic thriller where detective Shannon Tweed must go undercover as a call girl to find a killer eliminating girls at the agency. A blatant copy of Basic Instinct

Director: Robert Angelo

Actors: Shannon Tweed, Sam Jones

Category: Horror

10 May 200930 June 2020 by Roog

Ted (2012)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 28, 2012Foul-Mouthed Teddy Bear

Comedy about a foul-mouthed talking teddy bear. This gets its laughs from much scatological, decidedly non-PC humour that occasionally manages to be funny, especially when it comes to some of the 80s pop culture jokes

Director: Seth MacFarlane

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Mila Kunis, Joel McHale, …

Category: Fantasy

28 June 201222 November 2025 by Roog

Ted 2 (2015)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 27, 2015Foul-Mouthed Teddy Bear

Whether you loved or hated the crude and raucous, un-PC stoner/fratboy humour of Ted, Seth MacFarlane is back with exactly the same mix here. This manages to be offensive in an amiably inoffensive, even occasionally quite funny, way

Director: Seth MacFarlane

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Seth MacFarlane, Jessica Barth, …

Category: Fantasy

27 June 201525 March 2024 by Roog

Life After Flash (2017)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 22, 2025Documentary About the 1980 Flash Gordon and Star Sam Jones

A documentary about the making of the 1980 Flash Gordon and following the career of its star Sam J. Jones afterwards

Director: Lisa Downs

Actors: Sam Jones, The Alba Family, John Altman, Melody Anderson, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 July 202513 November 2025 by Roog

Axcellerator (2020)

Rating: ★★

Oct 17, 2021Teleportation Device

Lightweight action in which a young carjacker gains possession of a teleportation device and is pursued by government agents

Director: David Giancola

Actors: Ryan Wesen, Sam Jones, Sean Young, Laura James, John James, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 October 202117 October 2021 by Roog

In Search of Tomorrow: A Journey Through ’80s Sci-Fi Cinema (2022)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 25, 2022Documentary About 1980s SF Films

A documentary that comes with great affection for the SF films of the 1980s and covers these, along with interviews with key people, although leaves quite a number of blank spots in works it does not cover

Director: David Weiner

Actors: Nancy Allen, Melody Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Shane Black, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 September 202216 April 2026 by Roog