Movie Review: Underworld - Blood Wars

Hard to believe the Underworld franchise has been chugging along for more than a decade and is looking at at least one more sequel before all is said and done. I actually used to enjoy this franchise, led by a latex-clad Kate Beckinsale. There is plenty of potential in an epic tale of a war between vampires and werewolves. I used to anticipate each new episode in the series to see just what was going to happen, even when they replaced Beckinsale with Rhona Mitra and took us into the past to see early monster altercations. Now, I look at a new Underworld movie and think “Another one?” It doesn’t help that I revisited the franchise recently and found them to be kind of dull. Stylish, but dull.

Movie Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I never read the genre mashing novel when it came out a few years back. Although, now, after seeing the movie, I am curious to see if the book is any better. While I did not hate the movie, I cannot say I liked it all that much. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a movie in search of an audience, a mash that forgets it is supposed to be entertaining. It is a shame as the prospect of this type of project is quite enticing. Somewhere along the way, they forgot who this was for and what the point was, aiming somewhere in the middle, sapping away any potential it had.

Movie Review: The Imitation Game

So, I finally had the chance to check out The Imitation Game last night and I have to report that it was a rather good movie. Honestly, I was not sure what to expect as it looked like another biopic with WWII as a backdrop. I did (do?) not know an awful lot about Alan Turing, aside from him being credited as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. The specifics of his life were not known by me. Now, to be sure, I do not take this movie as blind fact, but as an embellishment of a reality in an effort to make an entertaining movie with a basis in fact. It is a mistake to take any movie as reality, that is where trouble begins.