Posts Tagged ‘fantasy’

Hirokin (2011)

Hirokin (2011)
This release seems to be titled Hirokin: The Last Samurai, but I am just going to follow the simpler IMDb.com listed title of Hirokin (which is also the printed title on the DVD screener reviewed here), because the samurai bit makes no sense. This is a low-budget sci-fi/fantasy movie that takes place...
May 1st, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)

The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)
Wow. If you are at all interested in mythologically based fantasy, with plenty of magic, demons, comedy, romance, kung fu and senses-shattering special effects of the highest magnitude, you quite simply gotta see this movie. It is cute and beautiful and full of grand spectacles. Just jaw-dropping. It...
April 29th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Faust (2011)

Faust (2011)
The story of Faust is an old German legend first written down in Latin in 1587, translated to English in 1592, forming the basis for Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus in 1604. The most famous version of it, however, is the two-part play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1808, and often held...
April 20th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Wrath of the Titans (2012)

Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Much like the etymologically derived Titanic, this film started with a lot of promise but didn’t end well. The early scenes in which our demigod, Perseus (Sam Worthington), has his idyllic fishing village lifestyle cruelly disrupted by a fire-breathing, two-headed dog with dragon wings (think cheap...
March 30th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)

The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
Today it often seems difficult to appreciate the fondness for musicals that the movie business (and the audience, logically) had in times gone by. I think, by the 1980s, they were quickly going out of fashion, but musicals were still going strong in the ’70s. Perhaps Western culture was at the...
March 12th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

The Tempest (2010)

The Tempest (2010)
Now that Christopher Plummer has won a much-deserved Academy Award (for his role in Beginners, but certainly also for his lifetime achievement in cinema), it seems appropriate to take a look at one of his recent stage ventures. As a Canadian, Plummer was invited by the Canadian Stratford’s annual Shakespeare...
March 8th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Midnight in Paris (2011)
Woody Allen’s recent output can best be described as inconsistent. Only fleetingly finding the unique comedic essence which made his previous work so gratifying, Midnight in Paris see’s Allen take a much safer approach, imbuing his narrative with a fantasy element which allows him to take...
February 6th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

First Squad (2009)

First Squad (2009)
First Squad is an animated Russian/Japanese/Canadian co-production. The Russians provided the story and the Japanese provided the animation – what the Canadians did, I have no idea. Maybe they provided the funding? It is a short movie for a predominantly teenage audience about the role of the supernatural...
February 4th, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Hamlet At Elsinore (1964)

Hamlet At Elsinore (1964)
Being a native Dane, it is a special thrill for me to see a Hamlet adaptation actually shot at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore – a castle that was newly built in Shakespeare’s day, and has an entire church built into it. I have been to the castle several times, so I recognize the halls, the [...]
February 2nd, 2012 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Conan The Barbarian (2011)

Conan The Barbarian (2011)
If you go into a movie like Conan The Barbarian and then come out complaining about a shallow main character or too much bloodshed then, frankly, you bought yourself a ticket to the wrong movie. These things aren’t so much complaints as aspects virtually inherent in the DNA of the character and the...
December 9th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More
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