“My Face on Your Mannequins”: Maniac (2013)
“My Face on Your Mannequins”: Maniac (2013) If Elijah Wood had already begun to shake off the weight of Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy with his performance as the apprentice hooligan in Green Street then he absolutely jettisons it here in his role as Frank, an unbelievably creepy young man who makes his living restoring mannequins. Franck Khalfoun’s horror remake Maniac is stylish in the extreme; but be...
Untamed and Terrible: World War Tarzan
Untamed and Terrible: World War Tarzan In our crude, tacky age of Hollywood bean-counters it has always remained one of cinematic life’s little mysteries to me just why no one has come up with the idea of developing the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs for the 21st Century big screen. Yes, we live in a world of ‘producers’ and even more hideously, ‘executive producers’, many of whom have not one jot of interest in...
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