With financial musical flops like Doctor Doolittle, Camelot and Hello, Dolly! losing millions at the box office, studios became wary of green-lighting more of the same, but then along came a smash hit called Grease, starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. It must have seemed like a great idea to cast Olivia in another musical,…
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Theodore Rex (1995) – Review
There has been many a Buddy Cop movie over the years, from the likes of Lethal Weapon and Tango and Cash to less than stellar attempts such as Cop and a Half and Top Dog, the latter pairing Chuck Norris with a sheepdog, but when it comes to Buddy-Cop films there is one film that…
Pirates (1986) – Review
Pirate films have existed since the very early years of the 20th Century, from the silent film classic, The Black Pirate (1926) with Douglas Fairbanks, to the rousing epic Captain Blood (1935) with Errol Flynn, yet modern audiences are most familiar with the genre’s re-emergence in the early years of the 21st Century with Disney’s Pirates…