Unfortunately, I already used the headline “Edgar Allan Poesers” (for which I cannot take credit) back in 2016 while reviewing Extraordinary Tales. It would apply extremely well here. The Raven (2012) The Plot: When a string of grisly murders mirroring the work of Edgar Allan Poe hits Baltimore, police inspector Fields (Luke Evans) enlists the…
You know how sometimes you see a trailer that combines so many perfectly good elements in the most spectacularly off-the-wall, inventive, horrible ways, and you think to yourself, “Well, surely that will be a good movie.” Okay, maybe “good” is the wrong word. Maybe even “movie” is a little too generous, but I will not…
Baddie – Johnny Depp/Robert Downey Jr. Lesson – If necessity is the mother of invention, reinventions are the weird offspring. I think it’s safe to say that there is a trend in Hollywood to create zany reiterations of things in the past. Sherlock Holmes (RDJ) and the BBC Sherlock, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, for example. I…
Because I’ve spent the last week on vacation; and because I haven’t found a worthwhile Canadian Christmas movie to review this year, I decided to fall back on a classic cynical piece, the sort of mediocre movie which speaks to you personally in such a way that you love it, and no one else can…
Rooster Illusion 