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THE RELIC [Peter Hyams 1997]

March 2, 2015 Respond

The Relic is about what actually happens when ‘Indiana Jones’ returns back from the temples, the tombs, the jungles to civilization under the spell of “curious or menacing objects”. Peter Hyams is top on my list of directors just because he’s behind both The Relic and A Sound of Thunder (2005). In a sense both…
Man-Thing (2005)

January 11, 2015 Respond

Amongst humanoid embodiments of primeval foetid putrid forces and plant-like elementals roaming imaginary marshlands, the Swamp Thing (DC) and Man-Thing (Marvel) are certainly the most famous comics characters. As anti-city, as inverted city ecosystem – the swamp and marshland is probably the ur-form of the Netherworld, the first green Hades. Swamps are viscous cities harboring…