Terry Chen Archives

Taken (2002)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 7, 2008UFOs and Alien Abductions

TV mini-series in ten two-hour parts that deals with UFOs, covering several generations from the 1940s to the present. An interesting take on UFO encounters with the benefit of some phenomenal performances

Director: Breck Eisner, Bryan Spicer, Felix Alcala, Jeff Woolnough, Jeremy Kagan, John Fawcett, Michael Katleman, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Tobe Hooper

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Joel Gretsch, Emily Bergl, Heather Donahue, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 August 20081 May 2024 by Roog

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

Rating: ★

Dec 12, 2004Action/Rival Assassins Showdown

An action film that sets Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu up as rival assassins. Despite a reasonable budget thrown at it, the film comes strangely without enervation

Director: Wych Kaosayananda

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Talisa Soto, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 December 200425 November 2025 by Roog

Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 10, 2006Snakes Amok

Purportedly this was dreamed up by scriptwriters over drinks trying to think of the most ridiculous pitch they could make. The result was advertised as a deliberately bad movie and became a modest hit

Director: David R. Ellis

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Flex Alexander, …

Category: Horror

10 November 20066 April 2026 by Roog

Hardwired (2009)

Rating: ★★

Jun 2, 2011Satiric Corporate Future/Advertising Brain Implants

This has the promising idea of a corporate-ruled future where people receive advertising implants but soon dissolves into the equivalent of a B-budget hacker thriller

Director: Ernie Barbarash

Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr, Val Kilmer, Michael Ironside, Tatiana Maslany, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 June 201111 March 2026 by Roog

Riverworld (2010)

Rating: ★

Jul 3, 2010All of Humanity Resurrected on an Alien Planet

The second tv mini-series of Philip Jose Farmer's classic SF novels trashes the books just as badly as the first attempt. The premise and characters are indifferently rewritten, while the show is churned out by a director with a tatty indifference to what he is making

Director: Stuart Gillard

Actors: Tahmot Penikett, Mark Deklin, Peter Wingfield, Jeananne Goossen, …

Category: Science Fiction

3 July 20102 May 2024 by Roog

Borealis (2013)

Rating: ★★

Jan 17, 2017Outpost in a Future Thawed-Out Arctic

A pilot for a tv series that never went ahead set in a future where Global Warming has turned the Arctic into a thawed-out tundra where various countries seek to claim the new territory

Director: David J. Frazee

Actors: Ty Olsson, Michelle Harrison, Patrick Gallagher, Christina Horne, …

Category: Science Fiction

17 January 201710 December 2025 by Roog

Demonic (2021)

Rating: ★½

Oct 8, 2021Demonic Possession in Virtual Reality

Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9, returns with a possession film that uniquely takes places in Virtual Reality as Carly Pope must use a device that enters her comatose mother's dreamspace

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Actors: Carly Pope, Chris William Martin, Michael J. Rogers, Terry Chen, …

Category: Horror

8 October 202110 October 2025 by Roog