“What are you talking about?” says young Ethan (Cody Arens) as Jack (Robert Forster) attempts to tell him the Korean legend that is the backstory of Dragon Wars: D-War (aka D-War in its native Korea,) an absolutely absurd fantasy movie that tries to combine elements of The Lord of theContinue Reading
The year is 1900 and a magician is enchanting Vienna. His name is Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and his tricks are like those of no other illusionist before him. His act attracts the attention of Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewel), who attends a performance with his fiancee, Sophie (Jessica Biel). LeopoldContinue Reading
Before watching the latest installment of the Harry Potter series, I looked over my reviews of the previous four movies and noted that I said they all have been of a consistently high quality. About an hour into Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix, I was worried thatContinue Reading
Since the success of both the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter series, it seems that any kind of multi-volume literary fantasy epic is being snatched up and turned into a grandiose production these days. That would explain the recent release of the first movie based on C. S.Continue Reading
Giant monster movies — especially those made in Japan during the 1960s — are usually viewed as campy, kitschy, or children’s entertainment. How seriously can a viewer take a movie that’s essentially comprised of a man in a rubber suit destroying a model of Tokyo as toy planes and tanksContinue Reading
When Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) takes the job as the night watchman at the Museum of Natural History in New York, he never dreams that he’ll be dealing with Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attilla the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), or living miniature Roman soldiers and cowboys. However, since everything in theContinue Reading
What an incredibly consistent film series the Harry Potter films are! Four films into a run of seven movies and it has yet to stumble at all. While I’m sure this can be credited to the strength of the novels by J. K. Rowling, each individual movie has had toContinue Reading