The Lord of the Rings, 1978 Directed by Ralph Bakshi Maybe I should start with my capsule review of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy: It was … fine. To be a bit more specific, I found it to be a striking visual spectacle, yet ultimately flawed. So … yeah....
At this moment in time, the mystery community is abuzz with the news that Tom Cruise might play Jack Reacher,a former Military police officer wanders the country and often wanders into nasty situations that requite him to pound the shit out of assorted McNasties, in...
Yeah, the headline is a bad one, but I could not help myself.Chris Columbus has picked up the option for Michael Koryta's THE CYPRESS HOUSE. The story is set along an isolated stretch of the Florida Gulf Coast during the devastating 1935 hurricane. The...
Rancho Deluxe: My guilty pleasure By Craig Johnson. Author of The Cold Dish and Hell is Empty The New York Times 1975 review remarked that, “Rancho Deluxe’ was so cool, it was barely alive; first-rate ingredients and a finesse in assembling them do not quite either a...
Directed and Written by Denis Villeneuve, based on a play by Wajdi MouawadStarring Lubna Azabal, Milssa Desormeaus-Poullin, Maxim GaudetteIn French and ArabicThis French-Canadian film may never play in your neighborhood theater, but I am sure it will be available on...
Universal mummy movies, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. To clarify: I don’t mean the big-budget Brendan Fraser CGI fests, the garish Hammer films of the 1960s, or even the subtle and moody Boris Karloff/Karl Freund original from 1932. For me, there’s only...
