I don’t know how the idea of making a dystopian movie combining Mervyn Leroy’s I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang with Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” came to pass – I’m betting alcohol was involved – but director Brian Trenchard-Smith took that very unique mixture and gave us a film…
Tag: action film
Megaforce (1982) – Review
One of the quintessential movies to come out of the 80s was action flick Megaforce, a movie brought to life by stuntman turned director Hal Needham and a team of B-List celebrities. It is true that this genre entry has developed a certain level of cult status over the years, mostly for its over-the-top action…
Captain America (1990) – Review
Spider-Man may be Marvel’s most recognizable hero but Captain America is right up there in the “very recognizable” category and he also appeared in comics two decades before the wall-crawler made his debut, in fact, Cap also predates Marvel Comics having been created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for what was then called Timely…
The Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990) – Review
The third and final made-for-television Hulk movie was, like the previous two films, intended to be another backdoor pilot and would have teamed everyone’s favourite emerald giant with another Marvel character, the Sensational She-Hulk, but the planned introduction of the emerald giantess into the world of live-action was soon abandoned, instead, we were treated to…
Ava (2020) – Review
Assassins and contract killers in movies have had a long and storied history, from the cool and professional assassins like Max Von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor to the more dynamically sharp-dressing badasses like John Wick, but we don’t get too many movies with a female in this particular job set so when…