In 1963 Robert Wise helmed an adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, which was a wonderfully executed psychological thriller with subtle horror aspects, flash forward to 1999 when Jan de Bont, the director of Twister, helmed a new take on the novel, one that didn’t bother with pesky little things like subtlety.
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Excalibur (1981) – Review
There have been many movies depicting the legend of King Arthur over the years with varying degrees of success; from Disney’s animated classic The Sword and the Stone to being wonderfully lampooned in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Guy Ritchie even attempted an Arthurian franchise with King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, but…
Clash of the Titans (2010) – Review
There is no greater example of Hollywood’s love for “Brand Recognition” than the Warner Bros remake of the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, as no one owns the copyrights to the Greek Myths the only reason to use that title was in the hopes of cashing in on the nostalgia people felt towards…
Taken 3 (2014) – Review
The Taken series seems to exist solely to justify an agoraphobic’s fear of going outside; in the first film a young woman goes to Paris and is immediately targeted by sex traffickers, then in the second movie the young woman’s family is targeted by the relatives of the now dead sex traffickers, while on vacation…
Non-Stop (2014) – Review
Neeson plays another government agent in Non-Stop; this time he is an Air Marshal. Bill Marks is on the job, on a run of the mill six hour flight to London, or is it? What we know for certain about Marks, is that he’s an alcoholic, with unresolved family issues. The thing that Marks needs…