The Slammin’ Salmon

When the comedy troupe Broken Lizard arrived on the scene with Super Troopers (2001), they were heralded as a fresh new voice but then failed to capitalize on that film’s success by following it up with Club Dread (2004), a lame horror spoof and Beerfest... 

The Green Mile: Special Edition

Magic realism is a tricky thing to pull off in a movie. It’s a deft balancing act that if you go too far in one direction you run the risk of losing the audience. In literature, it is much easier to pull off because a lot of it is left up to the reader’s... 

Sin City: Recut Extended Unrated

It only makes sense that if one is going to adapt a comic book into a film that it be faithful in look and tone to its source material. Otherwise, why adapt it in the first place? Of course, there is always the danger of being too faithful to the look... 

Sin City

Sin City began as series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller as loving homages to the gritty pulp novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane and classic film noirs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Miller’s world—the dangerous,... 

Sin City

Sin City began as series of graphic novels created by Frank Miller. They are loving homages to the gritty pulp novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane and classic film noirs from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Miller’s world—the dangerous,... 

Daredevil

The superhero genre is one that is ideally suited for the transition to the big screen, full of larger than life colourful characters with classic good versus evil struggles. Recently there has been a renaissance in these films & the latest hero to... 

The Scorpion King

Dust off that loin cloth, string that mighty bow and rub on that baby oil – WWE Superstar The Rock stars in yet another Mummy spin-off, The Scorpion King. Not since Schwarzenegger in True Lies back in 1994 has Hollywood had a decent, blockbusting...