King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, it might well say on the wrapper, but it might very well be the least King Arthury King Arthur movie ever made. The general shape of the thing is that of a Robin Hood story, particularly the 2010 Robin Hood prequel thingy with Russell Crowe. And if you’re going […]

Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: director Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword reminds us of the wide range of approaches that filmmakers […]

Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: director Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword reminds us of the wide range of approaches that filmmakers […]

Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: director Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword reminds us of the wide range of approaches that filmmakers […]

Following the success of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Walt Disney Production’s most contemporary and “hippest” film yet (though “hip” and “Disney” are correctly thought of as mortal enemies to one another), the studio immediately ran as far as possible to the other direction, making a film rooted in an antiquity that hadn’t even been […]

Back in the day, movies used to be bad. I mean, really fucking terrible. But these days (since the mid-90’s), everything has become so studio-hacked to death, with test audiences and market research and such, that just as the heights of the best films has dropped, so has the bottom of the worst films risen […]