Search Results for: beowulf

1. Mailbag 07/2002 – 02/2003

   Written by Nathan Shumate on December 29, 2007 — Leave a Comment

   From: tms3
   Subject: RE: The Little Vampire
   Date sent: Thu, 20 Feb 2003
   You ask:
   “are there really empty castles sitting around for temporary housing?”
   Well the last time I was in England, the answer is yes. I mean they lacked the To Let signs (it’s actually funny seeing these signs on buildings in London because [...]

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2. Mailbag 09/2000 – 12/2001

   Written by Nathan Shumate on December 28, 2007 — Leave a Comment

   Date sent: Thu, 6 Dec 2001
   From: Egyptmoon
   Subject: Nooo, movie! That’s a baaad movie!
   Nathan~
   You know the worst part? That Beauties and the Beast flick will undoubtedly be released on DVD, complete with a commentary from the *heehee* writer of *snort* the script *helpless chortling* as well as the makeup artist and Night [...]

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3. Beowulf & Grendel (2005)

   Written by Nathan Shumate on December 20, 2006 — Leave a Comment

   Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
   Written by Andrew Rai Berzins
   Starring

   Gerard Butler
   Stellan Scarsgard
   Sarah Polley
   Ingvar Sigurdsson
   Eddie Marsan

   As far as I know, there have been two previous attempts to adapt the epic Old English poem Beowulf to the big screen. One, 1999’s Beowulf transplants a version of the poem’s story to a “dungeonpunk” setting, with Christopher Lambert in [...]

   Posted in Action-suspense, Fantasy

4. Krull (1983)

   Written by Nathan Shumate on November 28, 2001 — Leave a Comment

   Directed by Peter Yates
   Written by Stanford Sherman
   Starring

   Ken Marshall
   Lysette Anthony
   Freddie Jones
   Francesca Annis

   I’ve got fond childhood memories of this one. It came out in the summer of 1983, the same year as Return of the Jedi, and my dad took us to both movies (two trips to the cinema in a single year was a [...]

   Posted in Fantasy, Sci-fi

5. Hollow Man (2000)

   Written by Nathan Shumate on July 11, 2001 — Leave a Comment

   Directed by Paul Verhoeven
   Written by Andrew W. Marlowe
   Starring

   Elizabeth Shue
   Kevin Bacon
   Josh Brolin
   Kim Dickens
   Greg Grunberg

   This movie was inevitable. Recent years have seen a spate of classics-mining, with both Dracula and Frankenstein getting a spruce-up. The Time Machine will be coming out soon, and heaven help the souls of those who decided to completely shit [...]

   Posted in Sci-fi

6. Ironmaster (1982)

   Written by Nathan Shumate on November 29, 2000 — Leave a Comment

   aka La Guerra del Ferro

   Directed by Umberto Lenzi
   Written by Umberto Lenzi, Gabriel Rossini and Dardano Sacchetti
   Starring

   Sam Pasco
   Elvire Audray
   George Eastman
   Pamela Field
   William Berger

   Produced by Luciano Martino

   The director and co-writer of this feature is Umberto Lenzi, best known for two incredibly sucky films: Cannibal Ferox (aka Make Them Die Slowly) and City of the Walking Dead. [...]

   Posted in Action-suspense, Fantasy

7. Beowulf (1999)

   Written by Nathan Shumate on November 23, 2000 — Leave a Comment

   Directed by Graham Baker
   Written by Mark Leahy and David Chappe
   Starring

   Christopher Lambert
   Rhona Mitra
   Oliver Cotton
   Götz Otto
   Layla Roberts

   Produced by Gregory Cascante, Lawrence Kasanoff and Donald Kushner
   Executive Produced by Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Peter Locke, and Alison Savitch

   So why hasn’t Beowulf inspired as many big-screen (or, for that matter, small-screen) versions as other mythic heroes? Partly, I suppose, [...]

   Posted in Fantasy, Sci-fi