Wishmaster’s djinn is a classic horror creation.
Granted, it is little more than a slight variation on the genie-in-the-lamp tale, but thanks to a scintillating performance from the vastly underrated Andrew Divoff, what we have beyond the dated CGI and sub-par heroine is […]
It’s impossible to hurl too many superlatives at Castlevania: Symphony of the Night because it deserves each and every one of them. Is it the best PlayStation game ever made? Is it the best game of the 1990s? Is it the best game ever? These are legitimate questions that gamers and fans of the title have been asking themselves and others since its release in 1997.
I’ve been a huge fan of the Castlevania series since the original on the NES and have been playing any version I can get my hands on ever since […]
If the devil existed here on Earth, what exactly would he do and how would he set about doing it? That is the central theme of Taylor Hackford’s 1997 thriller The Devil’s Advocate, which has kind of fallen off the radar in the years since its release for reason’s that are understandable . . .
Whenever we speak fondly of a particular character, what is it that immediately comes to mind?
Sometimes it might be an action or an expression or some other physical detail that sets them apart, but more often than not it is the words that they use and how they use them. Dialogue is everything to a character, because for most of us words are the primary source of communication, and through them we are able to further understand a subject’s personality and motives […]
By 1997 the Buddy Action Movie had become so diluted it had begun to resemble a thin, tasteless gruel.
Gone were the aromatic days of Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, of Riggs and Murtaugh, of John McClane and the black cop from Die Hard whose name I can never remember. Unconcerned with onscreen chemistry, relatable characterisation, and the kind of wry, acerbic wit that made the genre so successful […]
