Posts Tagged ‘Rick Baker’
Author: James
Fur enough
Lycanthropes would appear to be back in vogue – director Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III (2001)) and screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en (1995)) and David Self (Road to Perdition (2002), Thirteen Days (2000)) resist the temptation to ‘update’ the George Waggner-directed, Curt Siodmak-written, Lon Chaney Jr.-starring 1941 classic, instead preferring a ‘re-imagining’ of the werewolf yarn that started it all, at least as far as Hollywood was concerned.
Author: James
Howlingly good
So, what is it with all the UK re-releases? Not that anyone’s complaining – cinemagoers in Blighty have been given splendid opportunities to take a trip down cinematic ‘memory lane’ recently, with John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) receiving silver-screen encores.
- Colin: Mike: the Matrix was utter toss. Don’t go there. Anyhow, I’m right with you on Aliens –...
- Colin: James: Why not do ten more and see if you can avoid putting the god-awful travesty that is Independence Day in...
- CD: The Day the Earth Stood Still (it’s about an alien who is Jesus…but better than ET) Soylent Green...
- James: Hello Chris, and welcome to Picturenose!
Many thanks for your comment – I thought, in fact, that... - James: Colin, good points, both on Westworld (which should really have been included, I know, I know) and otters.