“You poor, simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me? The mistress of all evil?” There is no more iconic Disney villain than Maleficent, a figure who once commanded “all the forces of Hell” and casually cursed a baby to die before sunset. Yet in 2014, Disney decided this horned embodiment of vengeance needed a…
Tag: Fantasy
The Sword in the Stone (1963) – Review
Disney’s The Sword in the Stone was an animated retelling of the classic Arthurian tale. Sadly, it focuses solely on the period between Uther Pendragon’s death and young Arthur pulling the sword out of the stone, which is not intrinsically a bad idea, but the fun and fascinating stuff really doesn’t kick in until Arthur…
The Endless (2017) – Review
The expression “You can never go home again” refers to the inability to recapture a time and place — one that may only exist when seen through rose coloured glasses — but if your home was a UFO Death Cult, that may not be such a bad thing. Filmmaking team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead…
Mega Time Squad (2018) – Review
What would you do if you had a time travel device? Would you visit the Cretaceous Period and ride a dinosaur? Or would you hunt down and kill baby Hitler? Maybe you’d just go back far enough to tell your younger self not to sign up for a certain dating app — I’m totally not…
Hellboy (2019) – Review
In 2004, visionary director Guillermo del Toro adapted the Mike Mignola comic Hellboy to the big screen — it didn’t make much money — then in 2008, Del toro followed up that film with Hellboy II: The Golden Army, a film even better than the original — and it also didn’t make much money —…