When Edgar Rice Burroughs first published Tarzan of the Apes back in 1912 film adaptations would have probably been the farthest thing from his mind, but one hundred years later movies are still being made about his most popular creation – only the likes of Dracula, Godzilla, and Sherlock Holmes are in Tarzan’s league when…
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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) – Review
When Independence Day hit theatres back in 1996 audiences were blown out of their seats by the amazing practical effects that film had to offer, they were caught up with a charismatic cast that pulled off the right amount of drama and comedy, and it had Randy Quaid yelling, “Hello boys, I’m back!” before blowing…
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016) – Review
The original story of Snow White is about as bare-bones as fairy tales come: a jealous queen, a would-be murder, a conveniently sympathetic huntsman, and a band of dwarves who double as forest-based social services. In 2012, Snow White and the Huntsman tried to inflate that simple premise into something grand and mythic, with mixed…
The Witch (2015) – Review
“If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today you’d better go in disguise!” In the 2015 horror film The Witch, by writer/director Robert Eggers, it is the unknown that is the true horror to found here, and what was more unknown…
The Boy (2016) – Review
Creepy dolls in the horror genre are nothing new; from The Twilight Zone’s “Living Doll” episode to The Conjuring’s lame spin-off Annabelle we’ve been subjected to countless iteration of the scary doll motif. In the film, The Boy takes the sub-genre to an even deeper level of lameness than we got with the likes of…