Ralph Fiennes
Trailer Trashin’: Skyfall Brings James Bond Back in a Big Way
Now that the Memorial Day holiday weekend has passed – where The Avengers was finally knocked out of the box office top spot – and the month of May is almost over, the summer 2012 movie season is only going to get more interesting, and the new trailers will just keep coming. On the Trailer Trashin’ docket this week is the first teaser for the long-awaited twenty-third installment of the Jame...[Read More]
Movie Review: Wrath of the Titans
For as long as I can remember, I have loved the films of stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen. When it was announced in 2009 that the long-discussed remake of Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans (1981) was finally going to be made, I was curious to see how it turned out. After the remake came out in 2010, I thought that it was a flawed but entertaining popcorn film that had some interesting sp...[Read More]
Movie Review: Coriolanus
Countless works by William Shakespeare have been adapted for the movies since the dawn of cinema. The canonical masterpieces have seen every iteration imaginable – from cartoons to gothic chamber pieces to full-blown five hour epics. These ubiquitous plays are part of the cultural consciousness – the names Hamlet, Macbeth, or Richard III and their tragic fates are known to most, so even if a movie...[Read More]