Labyrinth (2012)

Labyrinth (2012)
Rating: ★★
Jan 20, 2014Cross-Historical Search for the Holy Grail
Christopher (Creep, Triangle, Black Death) Smith has become one of the most underrated genre directors so I was anticipating his first venture into tv but this disappointingly feels like only a commercial project. The cross-historical quest for the Holy Grail story reads like warmed over Da Vinci Code

Winter’s Tale (2014)

Winter’s Tale (2014)
Rating: ★★
Feb 15, 2014Urban Fantasy/Romance/Fate and Miracles
Akiva Goldsman, a screenwriter who has laid a trail of devastation through the genre, attempts to film a classic fantasy novel that has aptly described as unfilmable, resulting in a curtailed story that works in individual scenes but is mostly a spawling patchwork of fantasy elements and a romance that never seems to spark

Victor Frankenstein (2015)

Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Rating:
Dec 5, 2015Frankenstein Adaptation
An madcap new version of the Mary Shelley story where everything is turned up to an overwrought 11 on the dial. How more nutzoid can you get than a version where Igor the hunchback (a completely miscast Daniel Radcliffe) is the main character?

Brave New World (2020)

Brave New World (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 10, 2020Dystopian Future
TV mini-series adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s classic dystopian novel. Developed by Grant Morrison, this freely adapts the novel but does a strong and intelligent job of reimagining it in contemporary terms