The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Joe Cornish made a nice, albeit low-key (by today’s standards), leap from TV to movies as a writer-director with 2011’s surprise cult sleeper, Attack the Block, and as a screenwriter the same year with Spielberg’s...
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Excalibur (1981)
Co-scripted and directed by John Boorman, made after failing to get his intended very adult take on Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” films made into one movie, Excalibur offers up an ambitious, brutally violent take on...
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
Gore-meister Eli Roth tones his usual style way, way down for The House with a Clock in Its Walls, a PG-rated, semi-Spielbergian big screen adaptation (no surprise, given Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is the production house)...
Army of Darkness (1992)
Army of Darkness represents the third and (so far) final entry in the Evil Dead trilogy by Sam Raimi (Darkman, The Quick and the Dead), further continuing the trend away from the more straightforward horror of The Evil Dead and...
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Loosely based on the 1984 best-selling novel of the same name by John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick is a broadly dark, risqué comedy. It features a stellar cast, and Jack Nicholson (Prizzi’s Honor, The Postman Always...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
Sometimes gorgeously realized, this first chapter in a proposed seven-film series, based on their appropriate counterparts in novel form by C.S. Lewis, still falls short in the narrative and dialogue. With fantasy films raking...
Bewitched (2005)
Bewitched is a cute idea for a movie, but that’s all it is. It certainly sounds funnier to hear about than to actually watch. It’s not a remake of the television show of the...
Just Visiting (2001)
JUST VISITING is one of those remakes that will make you say “Why did they bother?” After all, this is an American remake of a French film that only came out eight years before,...
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Three film students travel to Maryland to make a documentary based on an urban legend involving a witch in the woods outside of a town formerly known as Blair. While there, they find strange...
Practical Magic (1998)
The ladies in the Owens’ family have one thing in common: they are witches with their own affinity for magic. Unfortunately they are also cursed. Any man they fall in love with will ultimately...