Producer Irwin Allen made a name for himself in television with such classics as Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, and The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and in the 70s he earned the nickname “Master of Disaster” by bringing to the big screen such epic disasters as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering…
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That Darn Cat (1965) – Review
For Disney, the 1960s saw the release of a couple of animated classics — One Hundred Dalmatians and The Jungle Book, and also the lesser received The Sword in the Stone, but in their live-action division, they pulled out all stops with their big-budget adventure films like In Search of the Castaways, as well as solid…
Reign of the Supermen (2019) – Review
How does one adapt a storyline that introduced four new characters, ran across multiple comic book titles, and is over four hundred pages long, all in a ninety-minute animated film? Well, with the Reign of the Supermen we get to see Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment giving it their best shot, but do they…
The Car: Road to Revenge (2019) – Review
In 1977, Universal Pictures released a nice little horror film called The Car, which had James Brolin and Ronny Cox dealing with a demonic car that was terrorizing their small Midwestern town. Now, over forty years later, we get a sequel to that horror classic…well, kind of, but not really. Universal Pictures is once again…
The Concorde… Airport ’79 – Review
With three successful entries in their Airport franchise, Universal Studios finally crashed and burned with the fourth installment, The Concorde: Airport ’79. It’s a fact that the Airport movies were never critical darlings, often called relentlessly ridiculous if not out-and-out silly at times, but they were all successful at the box office to varying degrees….