The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the film where Ray Harryhausen invented the modern fantasy adventure. Kerwin Mathews plays Sinbad.
Tag: Mythology (Page 3)
1990sMerlin (1998)
Merlin is the NBC miniseries that retold the Arthurian legend from the wizard's perspective. Miranda Richardson plays Mab, the old goddess fighting against Christianity's spread through Britain.
1950sUlysses (1954) Review
The Ulysses direction represents his most substantial international production. The film adapts Homer's Odyssey.
Film TrilogyThe Prophecy Franchise (1995-2005) Review
The Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror franchises in American cinema. The original 1995 film delivered Christopher Walken's career-defining performance as the rebel angel Gabriel.
EspionageThe Bourne Series (2002-2016) Review
The Bourne series is one of the most influential American action franchises of the past twenty-five years and the production that basically transformed how mainstream action cinema is shot, edited, and choreographed. Two additional Ludlum novels followed.
2020sEternals (2021) Review
The Celestials are cosmic-scale beautiful. The rest of the film fails under decorative diversity and two-and-a-half hours of incoherent narrative.
Fantasy FictionGrim
Grim has assessed the dead since before there was a word for death. Forty thousand years of the same job, and a functionary who starts watching where the dead actually go.
1970sStar Wars: A New Hope (1977) Review
A New Hope is the film that created modern blockbuster cinema, and it did so by being something very specific: a myth engine. Lucas wasn't writing charact.
American DecayWhen Atlantis Drowned Again
A graduate student finds Atlantis off the coast of Sardinia and discovers stone tablets inside — an 8,000-year-old mathematical warning about rising seas, sealed in a vault by people who knew they were drowning.
AmbiguityCassandra’s Last Vision
Cursed by Apollo to speak true prophecy that no one believes, Cassandra watches Troy fall exactly as she predicted — and sees, in her final moment, every truth-teller who will follow her.