In the late 1960s 20th Century Fox were doing their best to cash in the spy craze created by the popular James Bond movies with such less than stellar entries as Modesty Blaise, and today we will be looking at another fun if unsuccessful attempt at capturing Bondmania, this one starring Raquel Welch as the…
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Modesty Blaze (1966) – Review
In the 1960s United Artists was making truckloads of money with their James Bond films so every other studio worth its salt were looking for their own secret agent to milk the spy craze with, which led to such offerings as Dean Martin’s Matt Helm and James Coburn’s Derek Flint, but today we will be…
The Legend of Hell House (1973) – Review
When tackling a haunted house story one of the more troubling aspects to tackle is why the residents don’t simply “Get Out” instead of hanging around while the walls drip blood and ghostly forces are trying to tear their faces off, and the two best literary examples of this would be Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting…