Any version of BEN-HUR has a great deal to live up to with the chariot race that is the climax of the story’s action. Well, until now, but more about that later. Timur Bekmambetov’s retelling does, indeed, get the chariot race right. It’s one of the few things that are right with this curiously inert… Read More »
NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOY DOZOR)
Check out the contests and giveaways section for a chance to win a poster from NIGHT WATCH!The Russian import, NIGHT WATCH, has the right touch of otherworldliness. In the stylish visuals and the snazzy effects there is the sense of reality reconfigured into a place where good and evil aren’t so much philosophical premises as… Read More »
WANTED
The question that comes to mind while watching the first big action sequence in WANTED is how in the heck are these folks going to top this? Automobiles do things Newtonian physics can barely account for and so do the people driving them. It, like the other chase scenes in this big, messy, gloriously over-the-top… Read More »