You know what will ruin a wedding party? The Rapture, that’s what. In director Casey La Scala’s “sort of found footage” movie that is exactly what happens, and it’s basically a more palatable version of Left Behind: A Novel of the Last Days on Earth. This is not a good thing.
Tag: Fantasy
Gods of Egypt (2016) – Review
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…
The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016) – Review
The original story of Snow White is about as bare-bones as fairy tales come: a jealous queen, a would-be murder, a conveniently sympathetic huntsman, and a band of dwarves who double as forest-based social services. In 2012, Snow White and the Huntsman tried to inflate that simple premise into something grand and mythic, with mixed…
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) – Review
2016’s Alice Through the Looking Glass arrived with all the confidence of a film that assumes you’ll be dazzled into submission, and all the substance of a screensaver. What should have been a whimsical return to Wonderland instead feels like a contractual obligation stretched to feature length. Even worse, it somehow takes a world built…
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…