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Tag: Fantasy
A Review of Two Tales – Horns
Horns, both the novel by Joe Hill and the movie based on that same novel, follow the story of Ignatius Perrish in the aftermath of the murder of his longtime girlfriend Merrin Williams.
John Carter: From Book to Screen
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 performance rather 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…
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 non-comic book fans took notice – its worldwide box take…