Here we go again! This is the fourth time putting Frank Herbert’s Dune on the screen. Besides the 1984 cinematic bomb, there was Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed attempt in 1974, plus the 2000/2003 mini-series on the old Sci-Fi Channel. Will this one be any good? It’s the year 10,191 and nobody’s invented sunglasses? Really? If you’ve…
This movie is based on the 2004 book, The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager, which was inspired by true events in 1386 France; sorta like blending the literary classics of The Crucible & The Scarlet Letter, but adding a bunch of swordplay. Nice! 1386 France…
Seriously, can’t anything kill Michael Myers? If you follow the Halloween movie franchise (the twelfth film since 1978!), this hulking monster has been shot, stabbed, blown-up, set on fire, run over, electrocuted, and beaten to death, but he always manages to survive. What? Is he part of the MCU? Picking up from the same night…
With a very weird and twisted screenplay by first-time director/writer Valdimar Jóhannsson and poet, novelist, and Bjork songwriter, Sjon, this Icelandic import from A24 Films is moody, creepy, strange, and gives you a case of “what-if’s” with its unusual plot. Somewhere in the desolate outback of Iceland lies the lonely sheep farm of hard-working farmers,…
He’s Bond. James Bond. And this is Daniel Craig’s final film as 007, even though Craig adamantly refused to come back to this role five years ago after 2015’s Spectre. Oh well, I guess waving a generous paycheck under your nose will do the trick every time! Can you say $25 million? It’s been a…
