Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes has to be one of the most maligned remakes in the history of cinema. Everyone seems to hate this film. I am against remakes in principle and am not fan of Mark Wahlberg, and so I have studiously avoided this. But since I am going through all of Tim [...]
I had never actually sat down to watch James Cameron’s Titanic. When it was first released, I had no interest in it whatsoever. When I was working at a TV station in Tokyo a few years ago, I was hanging out in the green room before a live broadcast, and caught bits and pieces of [...]
Neil Jordon’s pseudo-folklore reimagining of the werewolf movie is beautifully designed and filmed. In fact, this had to have been the most stylish horror film ever made, until Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow took over the title in 1999. 12-year-old Sarah Patterson’s acting is pitch-perfect throughout, and David Warner does his usual multiple-role trick, and Angela [...]
After watching Terry Gilliam’s Tideland for the second time yesterday, and still feeling somewhat ambivalent about it, I wanted to go back and revisit one of his films which I have always enjoyed. Time Bandits was my favorite film when I was a kid, and I caught it every time it was on TV, which [...]
The premise of Time After Time sounds like it would make a pretty ridiculous movie: author H.G. Welles (Malcolm McDowell) is entertaining friends at home in 1893, and reveals to them that he has actually built the time machine that appears in his famous novel. Little does he know, but one of his guests, a [...]
Actor: David Warner
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes has to be one of the most maligned remakes in the history of cinema. Everyone seems to hate this film. I am against remakes in principle and am not fan of Mark Wahlberg, and so I have studiously avoided this. But since I am going through all of Tim [...]
Titanic (1997)
I had never actually sat down to watch James Cameron’s Titanic. When it was first released, I had no interest in it whatsoever. When I was working at a TV station in Tokyo a few years ago, I was hanging out in the green room before a live broadcast, and caught bits and pieces of [...]
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Neil Jordon’s pseudo-folklore reimagining of the werewolf movie is beautifully designed and filmed. In fact, this had to have been the most stylish horror film ever made, until Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow took over the title in 1999. 12-year-old Sarah Patterson’s acting is pitch-perfect throughout, and David Warner does his usual multiple-role trick, and Angela [...]
Time Bandits (1981)
After watching Terry Gilliam’s Tideland for the second time yesterday, and still feeling somewhat ambivalent about it, I wanted to go back and revisit one of his films which I have always enjoyed. Time Bandits was my favorite film when I was a kid, and I caught it every time it was on TV, which [...]
Time After Time (1979)
The premise of Time After Time sounds like it would make a pretty ridiculous movie: author H.G. Welles (Malcolm McDowell) is entertaining friends at home in 1893, and reveals to them that he has actually built the time machine that appears in his famous novel. Little does he know, but one of his guests, a [...]