COMMENTARY | Thomas Harris’ series about a serial killer named Hannibal Lecter, which has spawned a number of movies, most starring Anthony Hopkins as the iconic “Hannibal the Cannibal” is shortly to inspire not just one, but two TV series. According to TV Guide, Lifetime is developing a series to be entitled “Clarice,” based on ...
I recently purchased the DVD Hannibal Rising. I am a huge fan of the entire Lecter series and was expecting this movie to be as spellbinding as the other three. What I found was a movie so far from the book that it left more than a lot to be desired. Hannibal Rising by Thomas ...
A few years back the American Film Institute released one of their 100 Years countdowns that presented the 50 best movie heroes and 50 best movie villains of all time. Topping the villain list was Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs. That choice presents the movie fan with two problems. In the first place, ...
“Hannibal Rising” attempts to tell the story of how iconic character Hannibal Lecter becomes the horrific serial killer we all know and love. Director Peter Webber, and writer Thomas Harris created a movie that is so utterly confused to its genre it accomplishes the fundamentals of none. Poor, wee, innocent Hannibal is driven from his ...
CHICAGO – Anthony Hopkins returns with his unparalleled eyes of terror in “Fracture” for a sly brain battle with Ryan Gosling. Immediately reminiscent of his Hannibal Lecter character from “Silence of the Lambs,” Hopkins seeps deeply into an engineer who specializes in fracture mechanics. Trained to scrutinize aeronautical gremlins and plane debris, he’s an expert ...
Suffering from a bout of insomnia recently, I caught an old movie entitled “Guilty Conscience,” starring the incomparable Anthony Hopkins as a rich lawyer who is plotting to do away with his wife, played by Blythe Danner. Hopkins’ character has every reason, in his own mind, to kill his wife. The wife is on the ...
