Stephenie Meyer has yet again painlessly brought a fantastical world to life. This time it wasn't vampires or any mythical creation of her own, it was something that each of us contain within ourselves, the soul. A mysterious journey through the distinct worlds of human and soul societies, Meyer has created another different ambience in which she envelopes the reader.
Although she has already tried the one-girl-two-guys plot in her soon to be quadrology, The Host does not lose its...
The Hellboy movie franchise, much like the comic series on which it is based, is an oddball among others of its type. At a time when most comic book films are produced on a budget of upwards of $150 million, the two entries have cost Universal only $145 million combined. And while comic book films released by rival companies have set box office records (Spider-Man 2 in 2004, The Dark Knight this year), the Hellboy films perform modestly. The first one, in...
Let me say right off that the subtitles for this movie were terrible. Sometimes they were late, sometimes they appeared before anyone started speaking, sometimes they disappeared before I had the chance to read the whole of the text. And when there were exchanges of dialogue (which, oddly enough, does frequently occur in movies) it was often not apparent who was saying what.
But let's put that aside. And let's also put aside the absurd Renaissance faire...
