In a piece that will be collected in The Fractured Mirror, I wrote about Bill Condon’s powerful exploration of the tortured psyche of Frankenstein director James Whale, featuring a revelatory turn by Brendan Fraser.
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Read MoreJohn Travolta month continues with an exploration of one of the many terrible films he’s released this year, The Poison Rose, a Southern-fried Chinatown for Dummies that casts Travolta’s cliched PI as a young whippersnapper with a thick mane of chestnut hair who gets mixed up in a mystery involving sinister powerbroker Morgan Freeman and a Peter Lorre-like creepy doctor played by an unrecognizable Brendan Fraser
Read MoreBrendan Fraser month continues as we take a fond look back at 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Joe Dante’s heroic, misunderstood attempt to atone for Space Jam’s sins.
Read MoreBrendan Fraser’s longtime love affair with bad CGI hit a nadir with 2010’s Furry Vengeance, which pitted him against inconsistently anthropomorphized animals in an inter-species battle royale where everyone loses, audiences most of all.
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