In The Last Duel, Ridley Scott returns to his cinematic first love.
The idea of two rivals in a duel to the death is an innately romantic one, but where Scott’s directorial debut was devoted to it, in his latest it’s both beginning and ending.…
Tag: epic
Jupiter Ascending aims for the stars and ends up burying itself
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
By the same token, any sufficiently misconceived work of science fiction is apparently indistinguishable from utter bollocks. Case in point: the Wachowski’s latest bloated epic, Jupiter Ascending; a film that substitutes the interconnectedness of the flawed but ambitious Cloud Atlas for a story with just as much scope and infinitely less point.…
Exodus: Gods and Kings is a Biblical epic with a humanist slant
Of all the obscure film genres to make a comeback in recent years, who among us expected the resurgence of the Biblical epic?
Thanks to Aronofosky’s triumphantly bats**t crazy Noah, it seems we can now expect a slew of Old Testament supermen to be battling it out with the comic book contingent for control of our screens.…