Reel Retro Reviews

The third and final parts of The Lord of the Rings trilogy – The Return of the King, reunites us with Frodo and Sam on their never-ending quest to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom.

With the Fellowship being scattered to the four corners of Middle Earth, it is up to Sam to bear the emotional burden of keeping them on the righteous path and making sure that the conniving and insidiously cunning Gollum doesn’t lead them to their own doom.

100 years ago, the forces of darkness threatened mankind with total dominion and servitude. Led by the evil Count Dracula, the evil ones seemed on the cusp of success. Possessed of an amulet with magical powers, Abraham Van Helsing, Dracula's nemisis, thwarted their evil doings by creating a rift in time, sending them all into a vortex and potentially capping the evil in a permanent state of nothingness.

They Blew It.

Starring a very young Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood and released in 1993, the good Son is about a young boy named Mark who after his Mother passes away goes to stay with his auntie and Uncle and their two children. Mark befriends Henry the oldest of the children and being boys they share adventures together. As time progresses Mark starts to realize that something is not right with Henry whilst witnessing the slow degradation of his sanity.

This film slipped under the metaphorical radar of almost everyone when it was released. The marketing alone makes me vomit madly in distaste, some of the most inept film promo posters I have seen. I manged to find the coolest one to save your retinas burning, readers. After a poor reception and a slow uptake, it truly has became in my view an underdog of childrens' films for the last decade.