In this 90s big budget Arthurian epic, Hollywood decided to give Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur a rest — it being the basis for such Arthurian classics as John Boorman’s Excalibur — and instead embraced the romances written by French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who actually invented the character of Lancelot. This version of the…
Tag: Romance
Yesterday (2019) – Review
What would you do if you woke up to find your favourite band no longer existed? Would you recreate the songs and sell them off as your own or would you just let it be? What about your favourite book or movie? This interesting scenario is presented in Yesterday when after an accident, Jack wakes up…
Fifty Shades Freed (2018) – Review
Most would agree that the Fifty Shades books are a cross between fanfiction and a trashy beach read – no one is going to be proclaiming E.L. James author of the year any time soon – but the movies based on these books are only slightly better, in that they are faster to get through…
Death Takes a Holiday (1934) – Review
The anthropomorphic personification of Death in cinema is almost as old as the art form itself, whether Death is playing chess with Max Von Sydow in The Seventh Seal or crashing Vincent Price’s party in The Masque of the Red Death, it has always been a fascinating archetype that writers and filmmakers have loved to…
Fifty Shades Darker (2017) – Review
That each instalment of this series is released on Valentine’s Day has me a bit concerned with what Hollywood considers to be a “good date movie.”