The anthropomorphic personification of Death in cinema is almost as old as the art form itself, whether Death is playing chess with Max Von Sydow in The Seventh Seal or crashing Vincent Price’s party in The Masque of the Red Death, it has always been a fascinating archetype that writers and filmmakers have loved to…
Category: Reviews
Triangle (2009) – Review
A masked killer stalking a small group of survivors – as they run through the halls of what appears to be an abandoned ghost ship – may sound like elements to your standard slasher flick – which to be fair it does – but you are in for a big surprise when you sit down…
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2016) – Review
If you were to look up the word “Hubris” in the dictionary one should not be surprised to find the definition altered to now describe it as, “A quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence i.e. Warner Brothers and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.”
The Deadly Tower (1975) – Review
Over the years Kurt Russell has played some very dangerous characters – the anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, the suicidal Captain O’Neil from Stargate, and the psychotic Stuntman Mike from Tarantino’s Death Proof – so it’s almost hard to believe that for the first half of his career he was mostly known…
Jumper (2008) From Book to Movie.
Adapting a popular novel is never going to be easy, the difference in mediums is too great for there ever to be a perfect translation from book to screen, but in the case of the 2008 adaptation of Steven Gould’s young adult book Jumper they didn’t even try.