From Disney’s Herbie the Love Bug to John Carpenter’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine,vehicles with “minds of their” own have been a staple of Hollywood films – comedy or horror it doesn’t matter – but in 1985 we were treated to a movie that was inspired by the classic fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk…
Tag: Fantasy
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) – Review
Atlantis is the mythical island which supposedly sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago and it hasn’t stopped making trouble since, from the writings of Plato to the screenplays of Hollywood this fabled landmass has provided a great backdrop to some quite entertaining tales, also not so entertaining ones, and today we will be…
The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) – Review
In 1982 director Wes Craven tackled the live-action adaptation of Swamp Thing, a DC comic book created by writer Len Wein and legendary artist Bernie Wrightson back in the 70s, but with a script that had only a modicum of similarities to the source material – a scientist turned into a swamp monster and a…
The Harry Potter Franchise (2001-2011) – Review
Raking in over 43 billion dollars the Harry Potter films are easily one of the most successful franchises in cinema history – I don’t know who will ever eclipse the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s ever-expanding franchise – but not only did the Harry Potter films make a killing at the box office they were also very…
The Silent Masterpieces of Fritz Lang (1919-1929)
When one looks at the more than five decades of films that make up the career of Fritz Lang it’s hard to think of any other filmmaker who has accomplished so much and influenced so many, becoming a legend in his home Weimar Germany and then later in Hollywood, and though when the name “Fritz…