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…
Tag: Romance
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 installment of this series is released on Valentine’s Day has me a bit concerned with what Hollywood considers to be a “good date movie,”
A Review of Two Tales – Horns
Horns, both the novel by Joe Hill and the movie based on that same novel, follow the story of Ignatius Perrish in the aftermath of the murder of his longtime girlfriend Merrin Williams.