Tagged The Mummy

What immediate associations pass through your mind when you hear the name Frankenstein? Or Dracula? Is it an image of a flat-headed, neck-bolted green giant? Does Dracula swish around in a cloak and white tie,...

On Monday we started to list the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made, as voted for by the ORWAV writers and editors. Today, the quest continues... 40. The Mummy (1999) Some blockbusters are...

Disjointed as a severed arm, The Mummy has a tangled knot of a plot. Its story is as confused as its grasp of mythology and geography, yet still it survives. The key to this life among certain death is,...

These days there is seemingly no movie that can't be shoehorned into a cinematic universe. Following the mammoth success of Marvel Studios, Universal has decided to reboot their old monster movie classics into...

The Mummy returns. Again and again. It was first created in 1932 by screenwriter John L. Balderston with Boris Karloff as the bandaged baddie; then reanimated in 1999 in a more blockbuster version directed by...

1. Sigourney sez Avatar 2 is all ready to go Back in the long long ago, when Your Week In Film was called News Of The Week—how young and foolish we once were—we used to prefix part of the news with some...

1. Live-action Pokémon film gets live-action director Remember Pokémon Go? Yes, it wasn’t so long ago that budding Poké trainers the world over were traipsing around catching Zubats, Weedles and T-shirt...