“Fear became the ultimate tool of this government,” says V (Hugo Weaving), the hero of V for Vendetta, as he speaks of the England of the near-future. America has been reduced to a shadow of its former self and England is ruled by a fascist like state that has removedContinue Reading
Think zombie movies have been done to death? Think again. French writer/director Robin Campillo has taken the genre in a new direction with They Came Back, a completely bloodless look at what would happen if the recently deceased came back from the dead. The movie wastes no time getting toContinue Reading
When I heard that Johnny Depp was going to play the role of Willy Wonka in a new movie version of the old Roald Dahl book, I thought, “That’s not a bad idea.” I’d heard this shortly after seeing Depp’s fantastic performance in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse ofContinue Reading
The titular town of Northfork, Montana is about to be submerged by the waters from a nearby dam. Three pairs of men have been hired by the government to remove the last remaining citizens of the town before everything goes underwater. Each team has been promised that if they eachContinue Reading
What would happen if some of the most interesting literary characters of the 19th Century united to form a sort of pre-Justice League crime-fighting unit? The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a film loosely based on the graphic novel of the same name, gives us the answer: there would be aContinue Reading
It’s 1904 and playwright J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) has just watched his latest play bomb. Suffering from writer’s block, he retreats to the park to try to get some work done. He happens across Sylvia Llewellyn-Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four boys playing in the park. Barrie becomes enamored withContinue Reading
Harry Potter is back in this somewhat darker entry in the series about the young wizard who is destined to confront the evil Lord Voldemort. A murderer named Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is apparently searching for Harry Potter in order to kill him. Black,Continue Reading