Rufus Sewell
Movie Review: Old
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest hybrid of drama, horror, and suspense is a turgid tangle of a story that offers very little of anything worthwhile in the various genres it contends to belong to.
Movie Review: Hercules
Thankfully, Hercules is not an origin film. Though it is about the titular hero from Greek myth, The Legend of Hercules (2014) from earlier this year already took that approach so it is just as well. Here, the fabled strong-man (Dwayne Johnson) has already performed all but one of his legendary labors when the story opens. The newHercules was directed by Bret Ratner of Rush Hour (1998) fame and X-...[Read More]
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
In recent years, the mash-up novel, a work of fiction which combines a pre-existing text, often a classic work of fiction, with elements of popular genres such as vampire or zombie stories, has become quite popular. The first and arguably most successful of these was Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Now the mash-up novel has been brought to movie screens with a...[Read More]