The 2012 movie John Carter was based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel A Princess of Mars, and is most notable for its disastrous box office than the actual quality of the film, and I think most can agree that the biggest stumbling block the movie had was that it was saddled with one of…
Tag: Fantasy
The Company of Wolves (1984) – Review
Werewolf movies have never reached the popularity of vampire films – we probably have ten Dracula movies for every werewolf one – but for me the curse of lycanthropy has always been a more interesting idea than that of vampirism, as the werewolf is an intrinsically more tragic figure, not to mention that visually speaking…
300 (2006) – Review
Frank Miller is easily one of the most well-known comic book creators of today, and many of his works have managed to make it to the big screen, but it was when in 2005 that director Robert Rodriguez helmed the adaptation of his graphic novel Sin City that noncomic book fans took notice – its worldwide box take…
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – Review
I’m a big fan of the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. It has great flight sequences, great characters, amazing music (I’ve played this song too many times to count), and well, it’s just an overall great movie. But do we really need a sequel? Is this just some sort of cash grab playing…
Maleficent (2014) – Review
Revamping classic fairy tales has almost become its own genre, we’ve had Snow White and the Huntsman, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and Oz the Great and Powerful, now the unfortunate thing about all this is that none of them have been all that good. I’m not saying they have no redeeming qualities- the often…