Paul Ws Anderson

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  • Pompeii

    Movie Review | Ali Gray | 23rd April 2014

    "But every Paul WS Anderson movie is a disaster movie!" I hear you cry. How very droll. Pompeii is indeed the first movie by director Anderson that's supposed to be a catastrophe - a further step away from sci-fi trash towards period drama following 2011's re-stab at The Three Musketeers. Titanic is the obvious template (love across a class divide against a backdrop of massive loss of human life), but Pompeii has more in common with your BBC1 Saturday afternoon adventure mini-series: it's a curiously bloodless affair, with pretty faces, mild peril, swords, sandals and really rather fetching costumes. Look at that image above and tell me you can't imagine the continuity guy announcing that the next thrilling episode of Pompeii is coming up after Final Score with Gabby and Garth. This is basically my way of telling you that it isn't very good.

  • Well, this is the worst poster ever

    Movie Feature | Ali | 16th August 2012

    Some nasty Australian poster designer has ruined the fine legacy of the Resident Evil movies in this atrocious Resident Evil: Retribution one-sheet. What's that? All the films are terrible? Very well then, continue.

  • The Three Musketeers is certainly shaping up to be a film

    Movie Trailer | Ali | 29th June 2011

    Look at this new trailer; it has human actors in it, special effects of some derivation, it even appears to have a script. Yes, Paul WS Anderson's The Three Musketeers will be a film all right.

  • Trailer: The Three Musketeers looks suitably ridiculous

    Movie Trailer | Ali | 27th March 2011

    Unsurprisingly, given that it's from the director of the Resident Evil franchise, historical accuracy is not high on the agenda. Sword-sporting gimps and giant airships on the other hand? YO.