There is certainly nothing small or subtle about Wolfgang Peterson's (Das Boot, The Perfect Storm) latest contribution to the realm of Hollywood blockbusters. Troy is an adaptation of Homer's "The Iliad" that is truly grandiose.
One of the greatest wars of the Ancient World was forged between rivals Greece and Troy. The war itself and its immortal heroes were chronicled by legendary scribe Homer in his immortal epic, "The Iliad".
What happens when you cross a gothic horror movie with state-of-the-art special effects? You get Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale starring in Van Helsing. Not only does our hero fight vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein's creation, in the first 5-minutes he dispatches Mr. Hyde.
Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing is a rip-roaring start to the 2004 summer blockbuster season, complete with attractive performers and so much computer-generated action that my friend Jonas stated that "the special effects made my retinas burn".
Okay, I admit it. I am a fan of monster movies. If you were to point out the quintessential staple of monster films, you would have to look to the stable of creatures that populated the Universal Pictures horror films of the 1930s. The films that made the likes of Boris Karloff (Frankenstein, The Mummy), Bela Lugosi (Count Dracula) and Lon Chaney Jr.
Review: The Saddest Music in the World
Posted by: Mark McLeod • April 30, 2004 @ 11:59am
The year is 1930 and the world is in the middle of The Great Depression. Many people have returned from the war to see their jobs eliminated and a time of great sadness is upon them. Alcohol has been outlawed in the United States and many Americans are travelling north of the border to Canada to get a taste of that sweet brew.
Review: The Saddest Music in the World
Posted by: Timo Puolitaipale • April 30, 2004 @ 11:59am
The Saddest Music in the World, adapted from a screenplay by Booker Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro, takes us back to Winnipeg in 1933. The depression has gripped Winnipeg, but local beer baroness and amputee Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) launches a contest with which to catch the imagination of the world. She sets up a competition to determine who plays the saddest music ever.
Jenna Rink is just your ordinary 13-year-old girl. She looks awkward and geeky with her brace face and not-yet-filled-out body that leaves her on the outside of the popular "Six Chicks", a group of six drop dead gorgeous teenage females. Jenna lives next door to her best friend Matt, a fellow outcast and school photographer.
I have thought long and hard to how I was going to write this review. How does a critic review the second half of a larger movie? Instead, I decided to review the whole film while keeping in mind to what I gave the first entry in the series.
For me the first film was an opus to Quentin Tarantino from Quentin Tarantino.
WARNING: This review may contain spoilers that relate to Kill Bill Volume I.
When we last left The Bride (Uma Thurman) she was well on her way to her ultimate destination after knocking off the first two members on her hit list of Viper Death Squad Assassins, Vernita Green (Vivica Fox) and O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) â€" a task that took her to Japan and the world famous S
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