Friday night, my wife and I went to see a double feature at the Carolina Theater of Legend and Labyrinth. One of these two has aged well. One of them hasn’t.

Legend, directed by Ridley Scott, is by far the better made film. It’s gorgeous, full of striking tableaus and artfully composed shots. And it’s awful. The script, by William Hjortsberg, is a ( Read more... )

Saw both of these at the Nevermore film festival in Durham last weekend. For those of you unaware of it, the Nevermore is an annual horror film fest that brings in foreign, classic, and indie horror films for one particularly gruesome weekend of moviegoing. I've caught everything from Bubba Ho-Tep to Romanian vampire horror-comedy Strigoi there, ( Read more... )