Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ Category
Friday, July 16th, 2010
As a film and as an adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s bestselling tween romance novels, Eclipse’s director, David Slade, most certainly out-did either of his predecessors. While the love story remains intact to satisfy Nat’s need for any angsty werewolf/vampire/human love triangle, Matt appreciated the clear effort taken to attract a male audience by adding a dark and more violent visual style, that was clearly riffing on actual horror elements for the first time in the series.
Coming up next are Reviews of The Last Airbender, Predators and Inception!
~Matt + Nat
Posted in Action, Adaptation, Epic, Fantasy, Horror, Vampire, Werewolf, romance, sequel | 7 Comments »
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
After two movies of angsty interspecies romance, Jacob and Edward are forced to join together to protect Bella from the dangers of Victoria’s vampire army and the Vulturi. Watch what Kristen, Robert, Taylor, plus new cast members Bryce and Xavier have to say about their characters in Eclipse, and what director David Slade thinks about his contribution to the Twilight Saga!
~Matt + Nat
Posted in Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Supernatural, Vampire, Werewolf, sequel | 14 Comments »
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands blew us away from a gameplay standpoint, and delivered solidly on Graphics and Story! Not only is this one of Matt’s favourite types of games, this review also introduces our geek rating system! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think of our geek-o-meter…
~Matt + Nat
Posted in Action, Fantasy, PS3, Period, Prequel, sequel, video game | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 21st, 2010
After 14 video games and over two decades, the Prince of Persia is getting his own movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina. And with Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer on board, the bar is set pretty high for action, comedy, romance and adventure. But will it bring us all the elements that have made two generations of gamers fall in love with the source material? Watch our preview and let us know what YOU think!
~Matt + Nat
Posted in 80's, Action, Adaptation, Comedy, Epic, Exclusive Clips, Fantasy, Historical, video game | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe make a great team. Just look at Gladiator. Really. We mean it, skip Robin Hood and just go watch Gladiator. This movie is so BARELY a story of Robin Hood, it hardly deserves the name, and winds up being little more than a re-tread of Scott’s previous epic work. Everyone phoned it in on this one, folks; don’t waste your time.
~Matt + Nat
Posted in Action, Adaptation, Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Historical, Period, Prequel, Review | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
We were both BLOWN AWAY by almost every aspect of God of War 3. A fitting end to the Kratos trilogy and an amazing mythological bookend, GOW3 also delivered an even slicker gameplay and possibly the greatest graphics in any game, ever. Small hiccups to the gameplay like a DDR-style music minigame and a few too many knuckle sandwiches to the face of Zeus aside, this baby knocks it out of the park!
~Matt + Nat
Posted in Action, Fantasy, Games, PS3, Review, Supernatural, sequel | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
With with Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, the Incredible Hulk’s pulse-pounder of a director, Louis Leterrier has managed to round up some of finest thespians to play the Gods of Mount Olympus and added to that the heir-apparent to the action-superstar mantle in Sam Worthington, all to be able to tell one of the oldest stories in Greek Mythology, and to remake the 1981 Clash of the Titans. This one already seems like a winner just from the names involved and from what we’ve seen in trailers, so take a look at six exclusive scenes from the movie as well as interviews with the cast and crew to judge for yourself!
~Matt + Nat
Posted in Action, Adaptation, Drama, Fantasy, Preview, Supernatural, remake | 7 Comments »
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Tim Burton definitely pushed even his own imagination to a new level and a new dimension. But did any of Lewis Carroll’s legendary work of fiction make it to the silver screen intact? Characters seem to come across true to form, albeit a bit more Scottish, but Tim Burton is true to his word when he claimed this would be an entirely new story for Alice… far from an adaptation in plot and in spirit.
~Matt + Nat
Posted in Drama, Fantasy, Period, Review | 10 Comments »