Nicholas Hoult – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

RENFIELD – Review by Susan Granger

April 24, 2023April 26, 2023 Susan Granger nicholas cage, Nicholas Hoult, Renfield, universal pictures

For many years, Nicolas Cage refused to play Dracula, turning down major studio films but – now – he’s the legendary, bloodthirsty Count in Renfield. He doesn’t star in this thriller/horror comedy. Instead, the grisly story revolves around Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), Count Dracula’s long-suffering servant – a.k.a. “familiar” – whose job is to bring the infamous Transylvanian vampire fresh victims while he keeps up his super-strength by eating insects. Renfield first appears at a church group therapy session in present-day New Orleans. Coaxed by the support group’s leader, he confesses, “I am in a destructive relationship.”

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RENFIELD – Review by T. J. Callahan

April 10, 2023April 15, 2023 T. J. Callahan nicholas cage, Nicholas Hoult, Renfield

If Quentin Tarantino and Mel Brooks collaborated on a script it would be Renfield. The film is a satirical take on characters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but with enough blood sucked and spilled to make The Inglorious Bastards anemic. There are more multiple dismemberments per frame in any flick so far this year and the film is only 90 minutes. John Wick is jealous.

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TOLKIEN – Review by Brandy McDonnell

May 10, 2019May 12, 2019 Brandy McDonnell 0 Comments biopic, J.R.R. Tolkien, lily collins, Nicholas Hoult

Although the almost two-hour run time feels too long, the repetitive film also reveals too little about J.R.R. Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult). It omits some intriguing details about the origins of his stories, runs others into the ground and leaves tantalizing topics like his relationship with fellow author C.S. Lewis unexplored.

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TOLKIEN – Review by Martha K Baker

May 10, 2019May 12, 2019 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments Dome Karukoski, hobbit, lily collins, Nicholas Hoult, tolkein

Tolkien covers The Early Years Plus. For those Hobbit fans vertically deep in the fellowship of the ring, it’s good to look at Tolkien himself. The Finnish director Dome Karukoski has paid homage to the brilliant philologist and fantastic John Ronald Ruel Tolkien with this imaginative and intense biography.