Harry Potter

Film Review: Rasputin – Dark Servant of Destiny (1996)

Many were hit hard by Alan Rickman's death this past January, and it's easy to understand why. Immortalized by the Harry Potter franchise for his role as anti-hero Severus Snape, Rickman loomed large over a generation of moviegoers. The resonance of this role is so powerful that it's occasionally difficult to remember the varied nature of…Read more Film Review: Rasputin – Dark Servant of Destiny (1996)

Film Review: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire (2013)

While I'm aware that I'll probably get hate mail from all of my adoring readers I still have to say it: Catching Fire is basically a carbon copy of the original Hunger Games. The  film adaption of the second book from  Suzanne Collin's derivative blockbuster series is certainly a movie for our times, with its…Read more Film Review: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire (2013)

BluRay Review: Four Weddings and a Funeral

Published on Film Monthly in 2012 A young Hugh Grant, periodically sporting a pair of round-rimmed glasses and looking curiously similar to a certain bespectacled young wizard, is the focal point of director’s Mike Newell’s (the man behind the Goblet of Fire and Prince of Persia) endearing yet forgettable 1994 feature, Four Weddings and a…Read more BluRay Review: Four Weddings and a Funeral