Tag: Nicholas Hoult

  • The dreadful Jack the Giant Slayer is soullessly engineered escapism

    The dreadful Jack the Giant Slayer is soullessly engineered escapism

    Director Bryan Singer‘s Jack the Giant Slayer is almost unbearably dreadful. It continues a recent trend in the fantasy genre: fairy tails used as raw material for soullessly engineered all-ages escapism. See also: Snow White and The Huntsman and Tim Burton’s appalling Alice in Wonderland. It’s hard to understand how Singer could demonstrate the ability…