Mark Wahlberg is The Chosen One – believe it or not this is an actual a plot point in Transformers: The Last Knight – and for those of you who thought Wahlberg playing an inventor in Transformers: Age of Extinction stretched the laws of credulity beyond the breaking point, well you are in for a…
Power Rangers (2017) – Review
Though the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a very popular children show of the 1990s while I myself was a kid of the 70s, so my heroes were Scooby Doo and the Super Friends, which means that I went into this big budget adaptation of Saban’s Power Rangers with no nostalgic bias at all, a…
The Sentinel (1977) – Review
From the late ’60s and throughout the 70s there were some very successful horror movies dealing with Satanic forces; poor Mia Farrow getting knocked up by the Devil in Rosemary’s Baby, little Linda Blair being possessed by a demon in The Exorcist, or Gregory Peck finding out his son is the Anti-Christ in The Omen,…
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. “The Finny Foot Affair” (1964) – Review
The popularity of the James Bond films lead to one of the best espionage action shows on television in the form of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. which had a tone that ran from taught thriller to almost campy fun, but midway through season one, we got a delightful blend of serious spy action with a…
Coherence (2013) – Review
Never trust a comet – it’s as simple as that – if they aren’t blinding people ala Day of the Triffids they’re turning the population into red dust or mutants vis-à-vis Night of the Comet, but in James Ward Byrkit’s directorial debut the nature and effects of the comet are of a more subtle and…