Still very enjoyable on second viewing, with James Franco in particular continuing to impress as the ridiculously charicatured drug dealer, Alien, who bails out a group of college girls looking for a new kind of thrill during their vacation. Read more »
James Franco, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis star in Sam Raimi's "spiritual prequel" to the much adored classic The Wizard of Oz. Read more »
Oz the Great and Powerful sits at the intersection of two contemporary trends in cinema; it is both a prequel to a well loved classic and a CGI fuelled recreation of a familiar fantasy world. Therefore any viewer would feel compelled to approach this film with an equal measure of hope and trepidation. The cast […] Read more »
Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-man) re-teams with James Franco for this big budget prequel to the classic MGM musical, dispensing with the songs but layering on the lurid 3D visuals. Read more »
Sam Raimi’s spiritual prequel to MGM’s 1939 evergreen classic, The Wizard of Oz, is an incredibly mixed bag, that shows a degree of visual flourish and fun for younger viewers, but will mostly dissipate with a puff of smoke from the collective consciousness almost as soon as it’s over. It is understandable that Disney should […] Read more »
Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn’t so much a prequel as a re-imagining of the origin story behind Franklin J. Schaffner’s beloved yet campy 1968 satire. A group of genetic engineers out to find a cure for Alzheimer’s inadvertently create Caesar, an intellectually superior chimpanzee, who is at first friendly, but […] Read more »