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2 days ago · The Count of Monte Cristo: the latest adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s novel is a grand, robustly entertaining spectacle. Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s rollicking, expensive French blockbuster is a fittingly bold take on Dumas’s 1,300 page revenge-tale. As Hollywood studio execs continue to plunder the comic-book ...
2 days ago · Long-simmering revenge, sword fights, wrongful imprisonment, and a few open-chested poet’s shirts: Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 literary classic The Count of Monte Cristo has always been ripe for ...
2 days ago · The Count of Monte Cristo, directed by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, made its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it received a resounding 11-minute ...
2 days ago · The Crow, on the other hand, is a dismal mess. A blighted remake of the 1994 comic-book movie, it stars Bill Skarsgård as a slain drug addict who returns from the afterlife to hunt down the bad ...
6 days ago · 26th August 2024. Mark Worgan. Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo is one of French literature’s great stories, and one adapted for the screen on multiple occasions. At more than 1,200 ...
1 day ago · Head Count 's Hisji is the personification of urban legends themselves, just as elusive and enduring, promising to scare us with undulating suspense. Elle Callahan ’s indie horror harnesses the ...
Aug 21, 2021 · No sooner has Fink, bard of the common man and the misguided hero of Joel and Ethan Coen ‘s venomous 1991 masterpiece, scored great opening night reviews for his social-realist melodrama Bare...
