Tag: Jekyll
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde review – menace on Edinburgh’s mean streets
Hope Dickson Leach’s atmospheric adaptation of the classic thriller looks good but in rewriting the story, adds an unnecessary element of distractionThis atmospheric black and white adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic classic from Hope Dickson Leach, the director of The Levelling, opens with a tremendous shiver of menace. In the dead of night, as…
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This Is the One Tom Cruise Stunt That Failed to Impress
2017’s The Mummy is a mess for a number of reasons. For starters, the supernatural action reboot was supposed to launch the Dark Universe, a interconnected Universal monster movie franchise akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But after the film’s abysmal box office performance, the Dark Universe immediately ended, putting to bed Russell Crowe’s Jekyll…