Posts Tagged ‘Game of Thrones’
Film Review – The Great Wall
Arrows flying, 4 legged CGI monsters, gleaming well-polished primary colored armor, more arrows, horses, more CGI, still more arrows, beards, intense staring, Taiko drums, yet still more slow-motion arrows… Perhaps China’s most famous structure was built and used for various purposes over hundreds of years.…
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Film Review – Elle
Paul Verhoeven’s new film Elle, starts with a rape. It is both graphic and horrifying, so if you are unable to watch that sort of thing, this might not be the movie for you. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the role of…
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Film Review – The Huntsman: Winter’s War
In the latest effort of a studio to force feed us an unwanted franchise comes Universal’s The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016). This follow up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman shamelessly incorporates pieces of better properties in an attempt to adhere towards the widest…
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Interview – Douglas Henshall – Shetland
I recently spoke with Douglas Henshall who plays DI Jimmy Perez on the series Shetland. Shetland is a series based on the novels by Ann Cleeves. It is a crime drama set in the secluded island of Shetland, Scotland. The series follows Perez as he…
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Film Review – The Witch
Robert Eggers’ The Witch (2015) is the kind of horror film that isn’t interested in cheap thrills. Rather, the terror it evokes digs into your bones, unsettling you with tone and atmosphere. Eggers makes his feature length debut as writer and director, and in both…
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Film Review – The Forest (2016)
In Jason Zada‘s The Forest, a young woman named Sara receives a premonition that something bad has happened to her twin sister who is living overseas. As one twin can sense the emotions of the other twin, Sara immediately sets out to find her sister, Jess.…
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Film Review – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
I loved The Maze Runner. I come from a non-reader perspective of the film adaptations of James Dashner’s trilogy of young adult novels. I was surprised at the thrill and enjoyment of watching Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and his fellow Gladers find their way out of…
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SDCC Interview – Ronald D. Moore – Outlander
I had the pleasure of speaking with Ronald D. Moore, executive producer/showrunner of Outlander, in a roundtable setting while at San Diego Comic Con. The conversation with my fellow journalists began with joking about the place card they brought along with them to each table to identify who…
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