Ralph Brown

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 10, 2011Demonic Possession
Paul Schrader's original version of Exorcist: The Beginning that was junked by the producers. This is a far more subtle telling of the same story that eschews shock effect in favour of a moral struggle of the soul
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Stoker (2013)

Stoker (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
Mar 13, 2013Sinisterly Charming Uncle
The English-language debut from South Korea's Park Chan-wook is a supremely controlled film, more like a period arthouse film than drenched in the buckets of gore we expect of Park … Essentially a reworking of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, a film that takes place all in smouldering tensions
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Rating: ★★
Feb 28, 2013Fairytale Adaptation/Epic Fantasy
A decade ago Bryan Singer was the great white hope of fanboy cinema but then seemed to lose his touch. This attempt to turn Jack and the Beanstalk into an epic fantasy does nothing to reverse that – the result feels exactly like a piece of formula studio product that could have been made by any hired director
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Gemini Man (2019)

Gemini Man (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 7, 2019Assassin Fights a Clone of Himself
Ang Lee dips his feet into the action genre in a conceptually fascinating work where assassin Will Smith facies a younger clone of himself. Smith's performance and the effects used to de-age his double are top-notch
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