Adapting Lewis Carroll’s books about Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is not an easy task as those original stories have no real plot; Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole, she meets wacky and weird characters, and then Alice wakes up as it was all a dream.
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Movies
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) – Review
In this movie the mutant speedster Quicksilver saves a bunch of Charles Xavier’s gifted youngsters when the X-Mansion blows up. Sadly that is about the only true heroic moment in this film.
The Mighty Peking Man (1977) – Review
With the amount of hype being generated by the production of Dino DeLaurentiis’s 1976 King Kong remake it wasn’t at all surprising that such films as A*P*E weren’t the only ones trying to cash in on the publicity, so a year later we got Shaw Brothers -the makers of the awesome Infra-Man – and their…
The Finest Hours (2016) – Review
When you see “Based on a True Story” on a movie poster or trailer one must take such a statement with a grain of salt. Despite what the movies tell us William Wallace of Braveheart fame did not have an affair with Isabelle of France (she was only nine years old at the time) nor…
A*P*E (1976) – Review
APE practically defines the term “quickie rip-off” as the South Korean film industry, teaming up with an American production company, rushed their Kong rip-off to the screen just ahead of Dino DeLaurentiis’s multi-million dollar King Kong remake.