Articles Posted by Kevin Powers
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I think it’s clear by now that the once cherub-like Harry Potter has grown into an appropriately angst-ridden teen. If it wasn’t the infamous nude-horse production Equus that gave it away, then seeing Harry Potter and the Order the Phoenix should do the trick. Gone is the feathery hair, the curious voice and the look [...]
Dead Silence
Dolls are scary. Chucky is. That weird one that wheels around in Saw is. Even Buddy Lee and his overalls seem a bit nefarious. So when you pair such a tried-and-true fear device with the writer and producer of Saw, James Wan, in Dead Silence, you would expect the result to be a respectable horror [...]
Primeval
What is there not to like about the exploitative pursuit of a mythical, 25-foot “man-eating” crocodile –- yes, apparently that descriptor is actually not overused –- hidden in the remote wilderness of an Africa country, set amidst the tumultuous political strife of the region? Well, a lot, actually. Despite Primeval’s attempts to deepen the plot [...]
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Despite my, at best, tepid reaction to the debut of the Fantastic Four on the big screen, I still just had to see the sequel. To be sure, nothing in the first film would have motivated me to fiddle away more of my time. But with the introduction of the Silver Surfer — who certainly [...]
Hostel 2
Eli Roth’s second take on the Slovakian mouse trap, complete with an eBay-like competition to act out murderous fantasies on wayward backpackers (albeit originally a pretty exciting and interesting idea), falls squarely into the bucket of a money-minded sequel. The fraternal twin of the original –- women now lead the cast as opposed to guys [...]
