1981 was certainly the Year of the Wolf, we got John Landis’s amazing An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante’s equally excellent The Howling, but there was a third wolf film out that year, one that many people have forgotten, a little flick called Wolfen.
Category: Reviews
Tarzan (1999) – Review
It’s hard to believe that this is the first big-screen attempt at doing the Tarzan story in animation because if any story lent itself to that medium it would have to be Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
In the Heart of the Sea (2015) – Review
This is not an adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic tale Moby Dick. This is an adaptation of the book that was based on the true events that inspired Herman Melville’s classic tale of Moby Dick. Got that? The book this movie is based on is Nathaniel Philbrick’s non-fictional account of the sinking of the American…
The Hateful Eight (2015) – Review
“It was Tarantino, in the cabin, with the revolver.” In what is basically a western whodunit Quentin Tarantino collects a group of rather unpleasant characters, plops them in an Agatha Christie And Then There Were None plot line, adds expletives and gore, then stirs occasionally.
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998) – Review
I’ll admit to being quite excited when I first heard of this film back in the late 90s, the trailer showed a loquacious Tarzan, newly returned to the jungle, where he and Jane try and stop a group of white adventures from pillaging the lost city of Opar.