Archive for the 'Fantasy' Category



The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

My son persuaded me to watch The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising with him. It was a load of crap, in my humble opinion.
Will Stanton, on his 14th birthday, finds out he is "the seeker" and has to collect 6 signs before "the rider" unleashes darkness on the world.
What the movie failed to explain, [...]

Pleasantville (1998)

A few years before "Spider-Man (2002)", Tobey Maguire starred in this charming flick about the simpler life of the 50s (in the USA) and the end of innocence. Most of the movie is in black and white, as intended, which causes the splashes of color to stand out even more.
Having grown up in the 60s, [...]

Phantasm (1979)

This is one of the scariest films from the 1970s that I ever watched. It has a cult-like following and it inspired 3 sequels.
Angus Scrimm plays a tall funeral parlor director who also happens to be an alien from an alternate dimension. His mission is to take dead people from our dimension and reincarnate them [...]

Teen Wolf (1985)

Now here's a comedy you can really sink your teeth into. Michael J. Fox played a teenager entering puberty (hence starting to change to a werewolf on a regular basis), even though he was 22 or 23 when it was filmed. I wish I could have looked that way.
The story starts with Scott Howard wondering [...]

Evan Almighty (2007)

Evan Baxter, the anchorman that was the subject of Bruce's ire in the movie that inspired this sequel, is tapped by God to build an ark. Evan is a God-fearing individual who ran for and became a congressman, and then moved to an area where other congressmen live near Washington, DC. I'm thinking Virginia, but [...]