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‘Man against monster!’ Director Ford Beebe’s routine 1953 jungle adventure Safari Drums [Bomba and the Safari Drums] is the ninth Bomba the Jungle Boy series entry. The Monogram Pictures studio nevertheless finds an excellent use […]
Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]
Director Craig R Baxley’s 1994 film Deep Red is an involving, exciting and well-handled Sci-Fi horror thriller, with plenty of ideas rattling around and strong performances to motor it. The writer and producer is D […]
Director Sam Mendes feels it’s timely to bang on about the First World War again in his 2019 war drama 1917. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s about 100 years too late for this film. […]
Director Stanley Kramer’s 1977 assassination thriller The Domino Principle [The Domino Killings] stars Richard Widmark as mystery man Tagge, who approaches wrongly convicted murderer Roy Tucker (Gene Hackman), who is serving time in San Quentin […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1943 The Bells Go Down has its appeal but it suffers by comparison with the same year’s Fires Were Started. You didn’t expect to see Tommy Trinder and James Mason in the […]
Director Tony Chan’s nail-biting survival action drama The Bravest [Lie huo ying xiong] (2019) is viscerally intense and successful both as a disaster movie and a tribute to China’s fire-fighters. It is staged on an awesomely […]