Monthly Archives: December 2005

Peter Jackson, King Kong

As some of my friends noted, this is really Lord of the Rings 4, stylistically speaking. This really shouldn’t be regarded negatively, since Peter Jackson has an amazing ability to blend different styles and yet make them his own and combine them into a unified look and feel. As so many other newer directors he [...]

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Bruce Campbell, Man with the Screaming Brain

Bruce Campbell’s directorial debut is a very entertaining film, but it also says a lot about the concept of cult films. Campbell’s film is aimed squarely at the fans of silly B-movies, more in the vein of Bubba-Hotep than Evil Dead though there is a clear over-lap. It is also completely dependent upon Campbell’s star [...]

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