Frank Ochieng
The mundane medieval movie Seventh Son is indicative of the cinema wasteland that the beginning of a brand new movie season trudges in after the New Year arrives. In any event, Seventh Son is in good company (or is that bad company?) with flaccid fare such as the sci-fi eyesore Jupiter Ascending and the meatless melodrama The Boy Next Door joining the parade of putrid pictures occupying the big screen at the same time. What is even more shockingly shoddy about Seventh Sons embarrassing presentation as a sluggish supernatural movie misstep is the inclusion of Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) and current Oscar-nominee Julianne Moore (for 2014s Still Alice) saddled in director Sergei Bodrovs (Mongol) period piece sci-fi sludge. Bridgess...