Back in 1994, a memorably bad big-screen version of the video game Street Fighter starred Jean-Claude Van Damme and Kylie Minogue. It was an all-time low in adaptations that turned the arcade games we grew up with into movies. The major issue was that it didn’t look anything like the game, but more like a…
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Bring Her Back
A few years ago, Australian directors and twin brothers, Danny and Michael Philippou, gave us the intriguing and compelling horror film, Talk To Me, about a mummified hand that conjured spirits. What made that film work so well was its originality and the fact that the directors gave us characters we cared about. Now they…
