The Lovely Bones ***Probably one of the big losers among the hopefuls for this year’s Academy Awards, not receiving a single nomination, The Lovely Bones is also perhaps the most surprising film to be overlooked. After all, it’s directed by Peter Jackson, whose
Solomon Kane ***The creation of pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, known for characters such as Conan the Barbarian, Kull the Conqueror and Red Sonja, Solomon Kane is a character that can be distinctly classified as an anti-hero. Extremely dark, even by the
In 1984 the perpetually whacked out and perennially brilliant Ken Russell released what I like to think of as his magnum opus (at least outside of his more "serious" films), the depraved, candy colored, pitch black-comedy-melodrama Crimes of Passion. In a sentence (and a very accurate sentence at that) the film
This coming Sunday, I'm hoping to see Mic Macs.Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Mic Macs (Mic Macs a Tire-Larigot, original language fans) stars French comedian Dany Boon as Bazil, whose father is killed by a landmine as a young boy. Decades later, Bazil is working in a video shop when a
Ever since the Harry Potter franchise first struck it big at the box office, movie studios have been looking to virtually every other popular piece of fantasy literature in the hopes of creating the next Harry Potter. Thus far, the results have been extremely mixed with films such as The