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…
Tag: Fantasy
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…
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…
The Wizard of Venus: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Review
The Wizard of Venus was the last entry in the Venus series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and only saw publication after being discovered in the company safe fourteen years after the author’s death.