Pink Floyd The Wall is director Alan Parker’s fever-dream adaptation of the well-known rock opera/album. Now, Parker was (and is) no stranger to films with significant musical content, having directed Fame, Birdy, Evita and The Commitments, to name a few. With The Wall, however, he actually hit a wall named Roger Waters and […]
The Beastmaster was one of the rare early-eighties attempts at bringing the sword & sorcery genre to the big screen. Unfortunately for its box office, it released the same year as the much higher-profile Conan the Barbarian. Beastmaster quickly faded from theaters. But it was one of the first films to really […]
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the single greatest piece of Star Trek material ever created. I say that without fear of serious contradiction. It does everything that made the original Star Trek television series work and engages in none of the excesses and fanwank that marked later films and series.
And […]
It’a hard to properly cover the influence of a film like Tron. While it was not a huge box office success, it provided inspiration for a generation of filmmakers who were taken by its innovative use of computer genertaed graphics.
But let’s ignore the film’s legacy for a moment and look at it as a […]
Viewed October 25, 2006
Vincent is a short animated film by director Tim Burton, made while he was still a working animator with Disney utilizing the stop-motion techiques he would eventually perfect for The Nightmare Before Christmas.
It tells the story of a young boy named Vincent who is fascinated by Vincent Price and imagines his life […]
Viewed March 1, 2006
Dünyayi kurtaran adam (1982), also known as “The Turkish Star Wars”, earns every bit of its poor reputation, but does manage to land in that “so-bad-its-good” category thanks to the dramatic heights that it aspires to (and fails to reach).
Some of you may have already heard of “The Turkish Star Wars”. […]