This movie is about Sonny Hooper, “The Greatest Stuntman Alive,” and though this character is fictional, he is clearly based on events and people from former stuntman, now-turned director, Hal Needham’s life. There have been many movies about the world of filmmaking, and even a few about stuntmen, but Hooper is not so much a…
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Seventh Son (2014) – Review
The Seventh Son is the byproduct of the success of the Harry Potter films and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as studios scrambled to find a new successful franchise, and how does one go about making a new fantasy film franchise?
The Land of Hidden Men: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Land of Hidden Men (also known as The Jungle Girl) is a classic Burroughs “lost world” story where the protagonist will stumble upon a lost civilization and the dangers within and eventually find true love. This is of course is all done in the way only Edgar Rice Burroughs can do it.
Alien 3 (1992) – Review
If any film is proof that studios need to be kept as far away from the creative process of a film as possible, it’s Alien 3. To a lot of fans, myself included, Aliens didn’t really need a sequel, it ended perfectly. The queen’s hive destroyed, most, if not all of the Xenomorphs wiped out,…
Plus One (2013) – Review
In the movies, Earth has been invaded by alien forces so often that one must wonder if there is a “Must Visit” brochure at some intergalactic Denny’s out there. That or the Earth has a Giant “Kick Me” sign plastered on it that can only be seen from space. Now, in Dennis Iliadis’s +1 aka…