By One movie that has been trapped in Development Hell for years and years is Splinter Cell. Based on the much-loved video games, the series follows Sam Fisher, a highly trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed “Third Echelon”. The outline for the games was created by
Retro Review: THE FURY (1978)
After watching the documentary Music by John Williams, I went through a list of his movies. The Fury was on that list and it turned out that I had never seen it. Missing it really annoyed me, as it’s an outstanding movie. The Fury stars Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie
GLADIATOR II Starts Strong
Gladiator II was revealed to the world outside the US this weekend. It pulled in $87 million in box office from those markets, in the process it grabbed the best international start for a Ridley Scott movie and Paramount’s highest starting R-rated feature. Audience word of mouth appears to be
Movie Meme Monday
Monday is back, but then, so are the memes. For every bad TV show like The Acolyte, there’s a good one to balance it out, like The Penguin. No, wait, that’s a terrible analogy. As you sit down to pretend to work for the next few hours, you can have this
Dune: Prophecy Episode 1 Review: An Ineffective Sisterhood
This review contains spoilers for Dune: Prophecy episode 1. For years, fans considered Dune an unfilmable novel. Dense with lore, full of epigrams and aphorisms, and featuring an inversion of a classical messiah figure, Frank Herbert‘s epic seemed to only work on the page, where the omniscient narrator can explain
