The Taken series seems to exist solely to justify an agoraphobic’s fear of going outside; in the first film a young woman goes to Paris and is immediately targeted by sex traffickers, then in the second movie the young woman’s family is targeted by the relatives of the now dead sex traffickers, while on vacation…
Vice (2015) – Review
A futuristic resort populated by robots where the guest can act out any fantasy may sound familiar to anyone who’s seen or heard of Michael Crichton’s Westworld but director Brian Miller’s sci-fi thriller Vice does so little with the premise that it’s almost not worth calling this movie a rip-off.
Dracula Untold (2014) – Review
When one is going to tackle a character as iconic as Dracula one has to be very careful, for fans can be very critical and the danger is even greater when you are doing an origin story that tries to make one of literature’s great monsters sympathetic.
At the Earth’s Core: Book vs Movie
If ever there was to be a king of lost cities or lost civilizations that king would be Edgar Rice Burroughs; Tarzan couldn’t swing fifteen feet through the jungles of Africa without running into some ancient lost city or another, and of course there is The Land That Time Forgot where dinosaurs still roam the…
The Eye of the World: Robert Jordan – Book Review
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.