James Faulkner

The Martian Chronicles (1980)

The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Rating: ★★
Aug 12, 2012Human Colonisation of Mars/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
Ray Bradbury's book about the human colonisation of Mars is an SF classic for its wistful, nostalgic poetry. This tv mini-series adaptation is killed by a lumbering director who over-explains Bradbury's imagery in the most literal ways
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The Monkey King (2001)

The Monkey King (2001)
Rating: ★½
Dec 22, 2005Epic Chinese Legend
A tv mini-series adaptation of the famous Chinese legend Journey to the West made for US audiences by Hallmark Entertainment. The story remains stolidly earthbound and the meta-fictional contortions the story has to add to engage in to have the monk hero replaced by a contemporary Thomas Gibson are bizarre
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The Three Investigators in the Secret of Terror Castle (2009)

The Three Investigators in the Secret of Terror Castle (2009)
Rating: ★★½
Apr 21, 2015Juvenile Detectives Investigate a Spooky Mansion
The Three Investigators books were an essential part of my youth. This does a fair job of remaining faithful to the stories, albeit with the addition of some grating modernisations, and creates reasonable atmosphere as they investigate a seemingly spooky mansion
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Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
Rating: ★
Feb 18, 2017Vampire-Werewolf War
I am at a loss to understand who the audience for the Underworld films is – they are films devoid of minimal requirements like plotting and seem to only exist as a series of forgettable action sequences and interchangeable Gothic poses by characters in black leather – and yet we keep getting more of them
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The Devil Conspiracy (2022)

The Devil Conspiracy (2022)
Rating: ★★
Jan 1, 2024Theft of the Shroud of Turin/Clone Body for The Devil
This has an insane plot about Satanists stealing the Shroud of Turin to clone a body to incarnate The Devil and a priest possessed by the archangel Michael wading into action with a glowing sword
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