"Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is now in theaters and receiving largely ecstatic reviews. Critics have called it "a staggering achievement," and fair enough: the film was built around an enormous IMAX shoot and a real commitment to capturing as much as possible in camera rather than leaning on CGI.
"But call me an old man for saying this: for all its scale, the world it builds can feel too polished, too glossy, more museum piece than lived-in ancient world.
"So I went back to seven old-school productions drawn from ancient myth and the sword-and-sandal tradition. They simply don’t make them like they used to, and most modern attempts are barely watchable."
A wonderful collection of classic tales of Ancient Greece on the silver screen (which includes a couple of my Harryhausen favourites), compiled by the ever-reliable Luminism channel.
For this video, I had to leave out some very solid options, including 2013's Evil Dead, 2006's The Hills Have Eyes, and 2004's Dawn of the Dead. But five means five, so today I’m saving the remakes that, for me, really proved why the story was worth telling again.
In this video from Luminism, five remakes of old horror movies are chosen as the superior versions!
Today, we’re heading back to the 1950s and looking at American sci-fi films that still feel important to the genre. Some are major landmarks, others are easier to overlook now, but taken together, they make a strong case for just how good this decade really was.
I cannot tell a lie: I love 1950's sci-fi movies, so this offering from the wonderful LuminismYouTube channel is pure catnip.
The brilliant Luminism channel brings us a pair of featurettes examing great fantasy films that managed to bomb at the box office (often due to a marketing failure by studios unable to grasp genre pieces).
My pop culture Odyssey: a slice of super-powered geek life with heavy emphasis on pulp adventure, superheroes, comic books, westerns, horror, sci-fi, giant monsters, zombies etc
