Sherwood Week: Sheriff don't like it

ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES

1991

Directed by Kevin Reynolds

Written by Pen Densham and John Watson

Spoilers: inapplicable, really

Sherwood Week: He's not the Marian kind

ROBIN AND MARIAN

1976

Directed by Richard Lester

Written by James Goldman

Spoilers: moderate shifting pretty immediately into severe, and I guess you could feel deceived that I said it was ever "moderate"

Sherwood Week: Grinning and baron it

THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST

1946

Directed by Henry Levin and George Sherman

Written by Wilfred H. Pettitt and Melvin Levy

THE SON OF ROBIN HOOD

1958

Directed by George Sherman

Written by George S. Slavin and George W. George (no, really)

Spoilers for either: moderate

Punch-drunk love

MORTAL KOMBAT II

2026

Directed by Simon McQuoid

Written by Jeremy Slater (actually based, remarkably enough, more than anything else on the video game Mortal Kombat II by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

There [still won't] be blood

MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION

1997

Directed by John R. Leonetti

Written by Lawrence Kasanoff, Joshua Wexler, John Tobias, Brent Friedman, and Bryan Zabel (based on the video game Mortal Kombat 3 by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

One battle after another

MORTAL KOMBAT

1995

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson

Written by Kevin Droney (based on the video game by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

Sherwood Week: This saucy fellow

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

1938

Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

Written by Rowland Leigh, Norman Reilly Raine, and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: N/A

Second childhood

COCOON

1985

Directed by Ron Howard

Written by David Saperstein and Tom Benedek

*BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED

1987

Directed by Matthew Robbins

Written by Mick Garris, Brad Bird, Brent Maddock, S.S. Wilson, and Matthew Robbins

Spoilers: moderate to moderately highish

00 Week: The fear of Voodoo and the supernatural, still deeply, primevally ingrained

LIVE AND LET DIE

1973

Directed by Guy Hamilton

Written by Tom Mankiewicz (based on the novel by Ian Fleming)

Spoilers: severe

Cardboard Science: But the film is a saddening bore

THE ANGRY RED PLANET

1959

Directed by Ib Melchior

Written by Sid Pink and Ib Melchior

Spoilers: moderate

Please don't take my sunshine away

PROJECT HAIL MARY

2026

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Written by Drew Goddard (based on the novel by Andy Weir)

Spoilers: moderate

Just what is going on in that piratical mind of yours?

THE SEA HAWK

1940

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: moderate

Volcano girls, we really can't be beat

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

2025

Directed by James Cameron

Written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and James Cameron

Spoilers: high

Walt Disney, part LXXXIV: Why did it have to be snakes?

ZOOTOPIA 2

2025

Directed by Byron Howard and Jared Bush

Written by everyone with a script by Jared Bush

Spoilers: high

Disney's Challengers: Put it in a flower pot and you'll see what you shall see

THUMBELINA

1994

Written and directed by Don Bluth (based on the story "Tommelise" by Hans Christian Andersen)

Spoilers: moderate

No, you look like me, which is interesting, if rather impertinent

CROSSED SWORDS

aka The Prince and the Pauper

1977 UK/1978 USA

Directed by Richard Fleischer

Written by Berta Dominguez, Pierre Spengler, and George MacDonald Fraser (based on the novel by Mark Twain)

Spoilers: moderate

This is where I tell you it's a sin to kill a dinosaur

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH

2025

Directed by Gareth Edwards

Written by David Koepp

Spoilers: high but not really

It's a t-rex, they've been around since, I dunno, the 90s?

JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION

2022

Directed by Colin Trevorrow

Written by Derek Connolly, Emily Carmichael, and Colin Trevorrow

Spoilers: moderate

As alive as you need me to be

TRON: ARES

2025

Directed by Joachim Ronning

Written by David DiGilio and Jesse Witugow

Spoilers: moderate

Okay, bye, I love you

ELIO

2025

Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina

Written by Julia Cho, Mark Hammer, Mike Jones, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina

Spoilers: moderate, though also borderline inapplicable