After the two rather “low stakes” spy adventures found in Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun it was finally time for Roger Moore to step things up a tad and have a balls-to-the-wall action spectacular, a movie that would not only pit James Bond against an honest to goodness supervillain,…
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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) – Review
With the moderate success of Roger Moore’s first outing as James Bond, in the southern fried Live and Let Die, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman decided to have Bond return to the Far East in a thriller that would pit the world’s most famous secret agent against an evil alter ego, a notorious…
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) – Review
Let me take you back to 1969 when hippies were around every corner, westerns were one of the most popular movies to make, and Hollywood was one of the biggest places to be for an actor. It was also the year that the infamous Manson family murders took place, led by one of the evilest…
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) – Review
There are a lot of action movies released that are a “one and done” and thus often forgotten about, especially action movies released nowadays, but when John Wick was released back in 2014 it instantly became memorable for those who saw it for the phenomenal action and great revenge tale it was. Fast forward to 2019…
Skyscraper (2018) – Review
Blending a disaster movie with a heist plot is nothing new – though the latest one being The Hurricane Heist was god awful – and having it star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is definitely going to put more bums in the seats, but sadly the filmmakers never thought further than the premise of The Towering…