Clash of the Titans (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Neither the outright disaster I expected nor a good movie, Louis Leterrier’s remake of the semi-classic 1980 Desmond Davis-helmed tale …
Fantasy Film
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The first attempt at tackling Greek myth by the production team of Ray Harryhausen and Charles H. Schneer, who kept …
Hawk the Slayer (1980) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A film with a small but loyal cult following, of which I must count myself a member, for I saw …
The Great Yokai War (Yôkai daisensô, 2005) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
The idea of Takashi Miike trying to make a youth-oriented fantasy-adventure film is a perverse and intriguing one. The result …
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Watching Spike Jones and Dave Eggars’ adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved 1963 children’s book, I had an insight into the …
Stardust (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Although encumbered with the familiar banes of the large-budget fantasy film, big bland special effects and a clunky climax on …
The Science of Sleep (La Science de Reves, 2006) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast
..Lapped up by hipster critics, Michel Gondry’s second film strikes me as a shapeless, occasionally dazzling, often tiresome piece of …
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Los amantes del Círculo Polar, 1998)
.. Director Julio Medem’s epic of cyclical conceptualism isn’t an entirely satisfying concoction, building to a curiously unmoving anti-climax, but …
