When Spielberg’s monster hit Jaws arrived in theatres in the summer of ’75, the onslaught of rip-offs to follow was staggering, with such notable entries as 1977’s Orca,1978’s Piranha, and 1984’s The Last Shark, but such rip-offs were not relegated to creatures of the sea, and thus we got such “classics” as 1976’s Grizzly and the…
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The Meg (2018) – Review
When making a killer shark movie there is one thing a filmmaker must first come to grips with — that you will not be making a film better than Spielberg’s Jaws; it’s just not going to happen, and with the release of Warner Brothers summer flick The Meg, it’s clear that director Jon Turteltaub understands…
Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018) – Review
What can you expect from a sequel almost two decades late and that goes straight-to-video? Well certainly don’t expect much from Deep Blue Sea 2, as it could either be billed as “The sequel that no one wanted” or, more accurately, “A carbon copy of the original minus the fun.” As this film stars a bunch of…
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) – Review
If you’ve heard of the historic sinking of the USS Indianapolis there’s a good chance you first learned of the event from Robert Shaw’s stirring monologue in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws, and now decades later we get another, and vastly longer, a retelling of the story by director Mario Van Peebles. Why any studio thought…
Jaws: The Revenge (1987) – Review
No movie series epitomizes the Hollywood sequel machine and the “Law of Diminishing Returns” more than the Jaws series.