Director George Pan Cosmatos’s game, high-spirited 1979 British war caper is endearingly daft hokum from Lord Grade just before Raise the Titanic sank his company, ITC, with an all-star cast in a World War Two […]
The 1941 MGM musical Lady Be Good stars Eleanor Powell, who dances dazzlingly in Busby Berkeley’s spectacular routine ‘Fascinating Rhythm’, and there is Ann Sothern comfort a-plenty too. Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1941 musical film […]
Writer-producer-directors David Hillenbrand and Scott Hillenbrand’s absolutely terrible 1999 monster mutated snake movie, with risible special effects and no sense of its total uselessness as a chiller, is just plain bad, where Anaconda was fun […]
Writer-director Brian Taylor’s Mom and Dad has its charms, though it is far from charming. To be fair, it doesn’t set out to be charming but nevertheless to charm you with its whacked-out sense (?) […]
Director Nash Edgerton’s strong and robust dark-toned action comedy thriller has an admirable ensemble cast, but eventually focuses mainly on David Oyelowo as mild-mannered businessman Harold ‘Harry’ Soyinka, who has a life-or-death battle of survival after he […]
Writer-director Woody Allen’s 2017 Wonder Wheel is a dark, bleak masterwork, a late gem from the troubled film-maker, in the vein of his Blue Jasmine. I think I counted one attempt at joke in the entire […]
Director John Farrow’s 1952 adventure movie Botany Bay stars Alan Ladd as unjustly convicted prisoner Hugh Tallant, an American medical student who is locked in a battle royal with vicious, sadistic ship’s Captain Gilbert (James […]
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