The dramatic opening scene of the 1995 film Strange Days features Ralph Fiennes plugging himself into another man’s reality. Whilst sitting on his bed with his eyes closed, Fiennes starts up a special device that enables him to take a vivid ride through someone else’s memory of a violent armed hold-up that ends with a […]
Another week, another remake from an uninspired, grave-robbing Hollywood. Frankly, I don’t see why I should put any effort into this review when Hollywood has quite obviously given up. I’m tempted to just cut and paste my review for the recent Friday 13th remake and change the names of the actors. This time the franchise […]
A remake, done well, can be a splendid thing, and for a while there it appears that The Wolfman is indeed splendid. But only for a while. Revisiting the 1941 classic starring Lon Cheney, the film’s writers, Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self, stay true to its B-movie origins, dripping in atmosphere. Between them they […]
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