Film Torments: Dragonball Evolution (2009)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan powers up to take down the Mr. Satan of Dragon Ball media. If you’ve been on the internet – or happened to be growing up at the turn of...
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Film Torments: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a sequel to a video game movie. There’s a visceral pleasure to be found in playing fighting games. Even beyond the competitive aspect and deep mechanics, chaining...
Film Torments: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan takes a look at a box office failure. Luc Besson is one of Hollywood’s true mavericks. He’s such a maverick, in fact, that it’s somewhat misleading to even associate...
Film Torments: Ben-Hur (2016)
THIS WEEK on Torments, Dan looks at a surprisingly interesting bomb. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was a staggeringly popular novel at the turn of the 20th Century. Set in the time of...
Film Torments: Supergirl (1984)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at a forgotten lesson in comic book atrocities. There was a time when superhero movies were a marquee event. When the original Superman hit cinemas in 1979, comic...
Review: The Handmaiden – Unlike any other Korean adaptation of a Victorian-era crime novel
THIS is a sex film. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ve actually been waiting for this one for a while: Directed by Park Chan-Wook, who seems to have developed a reputation as South Korea’s...
Film Torments: Swamp Thing (1982)
THIS TIME on Torments, Dan looks at an early comic book flick from a horror pioneer. This’ll be a laugh. I’m sorry. Wes Craven was not as clever as he thought he was. An undeniably...
Film Torments: The Keep (1983)
IN THIS WEEK’S Torment, Dan examines what happens when an auteur and a studio clash over madness. Michael Mann, to this day, remains one of the most interesting directors to still be making a...
Review: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – A flawed but fun opening for the Potterverse’s new series
J.K. ROWLING, for many in my generation, is pretty much the British writer of the epoch of the mid 90s – mid 00s or, as they’re now often affectionately dubbed, the Blair years [assuming...
Review: Lights Out – The value of a good monster
BEFORE I saw Lights Out, I was feeling pretty ambivalent. On the one hand, the short film that it’s based on is fantastic; on the other, the feature adaptation was produced by James Wan,...
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