Alternative monitoring of popular culture ~ broadly defined ~ in the pursuit of deeper understanding
Friday, January 25, 2019
The Kid Who Would Be King
Joe Cornish’s exuberant The Kid Who Would Be King plants Arthurian legend in the midst of a gloomy modern-day England where an unassuming and good-hearted school boy, Alex (Andy Serkis’s son Louis), pulls Excalibur from a stone in an excavation site and awakens ancient evils.
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