There are three major releases this weekend, and this article is not about The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. No, the other two big releases this weekend are the Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending and Seventh Son. Both films are big-budget fantasy
Based on Joseph Delaney's The Wardstone Chronicles — more specifically on the saga's first volume, The Spook's Apprentice — Seventh Son tells the story of Thomas (Ben Barnes), a young farmer chosen to be the new
But he has a tendency to make mistakes, especially when it comes to science fiction and fantasy titles. He has followed up the minor disasters that were R.I.P.D. and The Giver with Seventh Son, a dragonslaying adventure flick based on the novel The
It's a medieval fantasy in which the local knight and demon hunter, known as the Spook (Jeff Bridges, doing a crazy-coot mumble), enlists the aid of a sturdy seventh son (Ben Barnes) to aid him to battle local sorceress Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore in
Actually, “Seventh Son,” Sergei Bodrov's adaptation of Joseph Delaney's series of novels, borrows from both those movies, as well as many others, and adds the requisite clichéd dialogue, hammy performances, eye-catching set design (by Dante Ferretti