Every great couple has a great story about how they met and fell in love. The best love stories always start with a couple overcoming obstacles to prove that true love will win overall. Perhaps it’s an age difference or a social class difference or maybe your parents hate each other and have declared you can never be together — or maybe you’re dead and the other person is alive. Yes, apparently it is possible for love to form between a flesh eating zombie and live member of the fairer sex….
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‘Hansel and Gretel’ is fun at times but mostly misguided — movie review
I’m sure at some point there were good intentions about making a movie based on the Grimms’ Brothers fairty tale, “Hansel and Gretel”. Then something terrible happened. Maybe it was the greed of the studio, opting to for a big weekend; or maybe it was ignoring a keen script reader who kept reminding everyone the screenplay was awful — but instead of a Tim Buron-esque trippy fairy tale about a boy and girl battling a witch while lost in the woods, we get a mindless action movie with crappy CGi. Continue reading ‘Hansel and Gretel’ is fun at times but mostly misguided — movie review
‘Broken City’ is a broken movie with a pretty great cast — movie review
Ah, January movies. Every now and then there is a great one — at least I want to believe that. This isn’t it. Of course, like any movie, “Broken City” could have been amazing.
Unfortunately, the director set out to make a completely different movie than he was given in the screenplay and it ends up being a mess. It’s a shame too, because it’s a waste of a concept that’s not done right enough as well as a great cast. Continue reading ‘Broken City’ is a broken movie with a pretty great cast — movie review