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Clayface is the third film in the DCU and the most unexpected film so far due to it being an origins story about a Batman villain. Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) is a rising star in Coast City, an actor who had worked his way out of Gotham City’s roughest district. His acting career reaches […]
Mike Flanagan has done it again – his adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel Carrie manages to hit on the key themes of the book (the horrors of high school, the pressure to fit in and the hierarchies that feel almost insurmountable, as well as the pressure to conform into the version of who our […]
Mike Flanagan adapts a Stephen King story for the third time with The Life of Chuck. He steps out of his horror comfort zone. The Life of Chuck is a film split into three acts. “Thanks, Chuck” shows an ex-married couple, Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Felicia Gordon (Karen Gillan), just as the world suffers […]
The Mike Flanagan suite of Netflix miniseries have been a bit of a mixed bag for me. I enjoyed The Haunting of Hill House (although not as much as many did). I was a huge fan of The Haunting of Bly Manor (save for the atrocious penultimate episode). I didn’t love Midnight Mass. And I […]
Midnight Mass, Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix miniseries, has a number of the quirks that were present in his previous outings (that would be The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, for those not wholly familiar with his recent oeuvre). Now, as was the case with the other series, some of them […]
In recent years there has been a renaissance in adapting Stephen King’s work. 2019 seeing three cinematic adaptations of King novels. Doctor Sleep completed the year and it was a film that had to honour King’s work and Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. After the events at the Overlook Hotel Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) has become […]
Spoiler Warning: This review presumes that you have finished the entire season of The Haunting of Bly Manor (and, while it won’t get into the plot specifics, you should have seen The Haunting of Hill House as well). I will discuss specific plot points up to and including the finale. So, if you haven’t finished […]