timur bekmambetov

BEN-HUR Featurette Highlights How Cheap And Terrible The Movie Could Be

I don’t know how many tens of millions MGM spent on Timur Bekmambetov’s Ben-Hur, but it looks cheap and terrible. The CGI is listless and everyone appears to be miscast. Who is the target audience for this thing? Teenagers, adults with [...]

July 9, 2016

Trailer: The Cinematic Anti-Christ Will Arrive With The Remake Of BEN-HUR

Man-o-man. This trailer for Ben-Hur is everything I feared it would be – and worse. CGI-d to within an inch of its life, this will never even be mentioned in the same breath as William Wyler/Charlton Heston’s 1959 epic. It’ll be forgotten [...]

March 16, 2016

BEN-HUR Remake: Huston We Have A Problem

Actors don’t get much tougher or better than Charlton Heston. The man was granite, cut from sacred stone, a cinematic icon that will forever be associated with the Biblical Hollywood epic (read about Charlton Heston’s career). Heston’s [...]

September 17, 2014

Review: Angelina Jolie And James McAvoy In WANTED

Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Wanted opens with Matrix-esque gun battle, complete with a determined man in a dark suit leaping from one building to another, before launching into a bullet fuelled fight. The film then cuts to yet [...]

April 6, 2012