Before the vampire craze began started by a certain YA novel, Neil Jordan's made an epic vampire drama Interview With The Vampire in 1994. Nearly two decades later, the Irish filmmaker returned to the popular genre with another unconventional tale of the fanged one. Except that the vampires in this story don't have fangs, instead they have sharp thumb …
Continue reading FlixChatter Review: Neil Jordan’s vampire drama Byzantium (2012)
The 2012 Hollywood Fantasy League is now upon us! This extremely fun and addictive blogathon is created by none other than my friend Castor (who sadly has now disappeared from the blogosphere). This is my fourth time I'm participating in this blog-a-thon, you can find links to my previous three pitches in this post. I have …
Continue reading Hollywood Movie Draft Pitch IV: A Crime Drama by Kenneth Branagh
The annual Hollywood Fantasy League (HFL) is upon us again! This extremely fun and addictive blogathon is created by none other than Castor from Anomalous Material. You can see who others pick on the latest round. I've participated three times before, but this time there's a bit of a twist beyond simply assembling our favorite …
Continue reading AM’s Hollywood Fantasy League IV – My Dream Cast
From acclaimed Australian director Peter Weir comes a fact-based story centered on soldiers who escaped from a Siberian prison camp in 1940. The story was inspired by Slavomir Rawicz's acclaimed novel, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, as well as other real life accounts and tells the adventure story chronicling …
Continue reading Flix Poster of the Week: Peter Weir’s The Way Back
Please, please, don't ever confuse this with Hannah Montana [shudders], which is what you'll get when you google this title. No, not even close. This is an upcoming thriller from Joe Wright, the director of Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, tackling yet another genre after last year's music-themed biopic drama The Soloist. When I first …
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