With the movie Gods of Egypt director Alex Proyas tries to give us a break from all the Greek mythology-based movies and show us some of the marvels of the Egyptian pantheon, alas what we get is nothing more than retreaded visuals from the 2010 Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia. Similarities to…
Tag: Fantasy
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016) – Review
The original story of Snow White is a very simple tale; a vain and evil queen wants the potential rival of her beauty murdered, a huntsman fakes her death and the young girl is helped later by a bunch of dwarves.
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) – Review
Adapting Lewis Carroll’s books about Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is not an easy task as those original stories have no real plot; Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole, she meets wacky and weird characters, and then Alice wakes up as it was all a dream.
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) – Review
With the success of John Boorman’s Excalibur the movie-going public was treated to an onslaught of fantasy films of varying degrees of quality, mostly ranging from poor to terrible, but Albert Pyun’s directorial debut The Sword and the Sorcerer is a surprisingly decent offering. I’m not saying it’s a great example of the genre, the…
Doctor Who: Before The Flood – Review (Spoiler Alert)
Hello everyone, last week’s episode concluded the storyline of “Before The Flood” in short my take on it was that it was very anti climactic, and save from the last episode I found that it really didn’t keep my interest very well. Though I shouldn’t have to say it be prepared for spoilers, so if…