At risk of sounding unprofessional, I’m sure that at least a good portion of you reading this review, and have read my other reviews, are aware that even as a self-proclaimed cinephile, I never really have particularly high hopes for a film that isn’t part of some franchise I adore ever-so-much. This is because unlike…
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Tarzan’s Desert Mystery (1943) – Review
With Tarzan’s Desert Mystery the series continues with the Ape Man’s jungle adventures for the war effort. Now Tarzan isn’t going out of his way to engage the Axis powers, they just keep crossing paths, and when you try and cross Tarzan it doesn’t matter who you’re working for, he will take you down.
007 Days of 007, Day 1: Quantum of Solace (2008)
If there’s one thing that can be said about any post-Dalton era 007 film, it’s that from that point on, the series proved itself to be a series of immense contrasts. For every truly great 007 film, there was a film that either downright sucked, was forgettable or good but not as good. With SPECTRE…
Tarzan Triumphs (1943) – Review
Tarzan Triumphs could have been subtitled “Me Tarzan, Where Jane?” for with the series moving from MGM Studios to RKO Pictures they lost Maureen O’Sullivan as she was an MGM contract player.
Red Lights (2012) – Review
Science versus superstition is undoubtedly a great source of conflict for any good movie but when a movie tries to have its cake and it eat it too, well that’s a whole other kettle of psychic fish. That is the key problem with writer/director Rodrigo Cortés’s film, he doesn’t really pick a side. If you…