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‘BARBARIC RITUALS!…SAVAGE THRILLS!…PAGAN SPLENDORS! ‘ Director Robert Florey’s 1948 jungle adventure is Johnny Weissmuller’s last Ape Man movie. It is the twelfth part of the saga. This time, he fights a giant octopus and armed […]
Writer-director Michael Pearce’s 2017 British feature debut drama, the twisty indie thriller Beast, starts quite well, proceeds fairly well, then gets messy mid way and loses it in the last half hour. Jessie Buckley stars as disturbed 28-year-old […]
With director John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978) both profitably remade, it inevitably comes the turn of remaking his daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller The Fog. With the original being so feeble, there […]
When Marilyn Monroe died, 20th Century Fox hastily revamped her unfinished movie Something’s Got To Give with a title change to Move Over, Darling (1963) as a vehicle for Doris Day. In 1962 the screwball comedy My […]
Tab Hunter recalled how well he got on with Linda Darnell on the 1952 film Saturday Island [Island of Desire]: ‘She was sweet, patient and helpful, befriending an inexperienced kid. She even threw a surprise […]
Producer-director Joshua Logan’s 1964 comedy sequel stars Robert Walker Jr as Ensign Pulver, but alas he is not up to stepping into the Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon’s shoes in the original role in […]
This wet and windy 1979 update on John Ford’s 1937 adventure movie The Hurricane re-tells the story based on the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall about a typhoon hitting a South Seas […]