I like nothing better than a good werewolf movie though it’s probably one of the most difficult horror sub-genres to get right in that it’s so FX-dependent. And sure, there’re ways you can get around showing a lycanthrope, but that only goes so far because I watch werewolf movies to see werewolves (at some point) […]
A trailer dropped for Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile earlier today and it really bothered me. Agatha Christie published 66 books before her death in 1976 and yet somehow Hollywood seems to feel the need to remake those that have already been made into feature films (Murder On The Orient Express in 1974, directed […]
There something comforting about an Agatha Christie mystery, though I have never tried to quantify why. Before now, that is. I think that what drew me to them originally was the logical way the stories were constructed and the way the mystery unfolded. Typically you put a group of strangers in a situation where there’s […]
Gerry Anderson, it could be argued, was one of the first producers of science fiction to see what a tremendous role hardware design, such as spaceships, could play. In virtually all his television series and movies, design has been crucial (more often than not, to the detriment of character development). In fact, the Eagle from Space: 1999, […]
“There are worse ways to spend an hour and forty minutes. Unfortunately for Sorority Row, there are also better ones.”
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