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11 September 2024 By in Movies Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

The Bikeriders: To Kathy (Comer), Benny (Butler) was everything she wanted in a man, handsome, quietly romantic, and wild. She slipped into Benny’s life with the ease of a merge into 3 a.m. traffic, marrying him 5 weeks after first meeting him.

Benny was an enigmatic cross between Peter Fonda’s Easy Rider’s Captain America aka Wyatt and James Dean’s, Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause. He didn’t fit into life but Kathy, his bike and the Vandals’ motorcycle club was his universe except he couldn’t resolve their correct order of importance.

Trivia: In real life, the motorcycle gang that inspired the Vandals in the movie “The Bikeriders” was the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, a criminal enterprise. The film is loosely based on that club in which Outlaw member Danny Lyon dramatized in his 1968 photobook, ‘The Bikeriders.’

Genre:  Action—Biographical–Crime–Drama—Historical

Directed by: Jeff Nichols

Screenplay by: Jeff Nichols

Music by:  David Wingo

Cast: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy

Film Locations:  Cincinnati, Ohio

Els: 7.5/10

IMDb:  6.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes Critics:  80

Rotten Tomatoes Audience:  75

Metacritic Metascore: 70

Metacritic User Score:  6.3/10

Theaters: 21 June 2024

Runtime: 116 minutes

Budget:  $30-40 million

Worldwide Box Office:  $35.8 million

Source: IMDb. Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic. History vs Hollywood. Graphic: Movie Poster, Focus Features.

Hamlet Plays Conan

4 September 2024 By in Movies Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Prince Amleth, ‘The Northman’, losing his royal inheritance with the murder of his father the king, vows vengeance against his uncle, killer of his father, and kidnapper of his mother.

‘The Northman’ is loosely based on the Norse legend of Amleth, son of King Horwendil and his wife Gerutha. Horwendil was murdered by the king’s brother Feng, who then married Gerutha. Amleth feigned madness to retain his head and to plot his vengeance upon his uncle for murdering his father.

Amleth was Shakespeare’s inspiration for Hamlet in his most famous tragedy ‘Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’. Hamlet is the son of the late king of Denmark and the king’s wife Gertrude. He is also the nephew of the present king, Claudius who killed his father and took Hamlet’s mother as his wife. Hamlet is told by his father’s ghost that Claudius murdered him and that he must exact revenge for his death. The play climaxes where Hamlet, Gertrude, and Claudius all meet a tragic end.

Genre:  Action—Adventure—Fantasy—Historical—Mythological–Tragedy

Directed by: Robert Eggers

Screenplay by: Sjon, Robert Eggers

Music by:  Robin Carolan, Sebastian Gainsborough

Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy

Film Locations:  Ireland and Iceland

Els: 7.5/10

IMDb:  7.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes Critics:  90

Rotten Tomatoes Audience:  64

Metacritic Metascore: 82

Metacritic User Score:  7.2/10

Theaters: 22 April 2022

Runtime: 136 minutes

Budget:  $70-90 million

Worldwide Box Office:  $69.6 million

Source: IMDb. Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic. Viking.Style. Shakespear’s Tragedies, 1980. Graphic: Movie Poster, Focus Features.