When it comes to disaster films, few are as iconic as the 1953 adaptation of the Titanic sinking, directed by Jean Negulesco and sporting a couple of top box office stars for the marquee value, this retelling of the tragic story of the doomed luxury liner, and while the ship was clearly sinkable it has…
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Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) – Review
In 1764 France a creature that would be later called “The Beast of Gévaudan” terrorized the populace for several years, racking up over a hundred kills and even more injuries, until King Louis XV sent two professional wolf-hunters to take care of the problem.
The Deadly Tower (1975) – Review
Over the years Kurt Russell has played some very dangerous characters – the anti-hero Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, the suicidal Captain O’Neil from Stargate, and the psychotic Stuntman Mike from Tarantino’s Death Proof – so it’s almost hard to believe that for the first half of his career he was mostly known…
The Hindenburg (1975) – Review
Everyone knows what sank the Titanic (arrogance and ice) but the cause of the great airship disaster that was the Hindenburg remains a mystery to this very day.
The Finest Hours (2016) – Review
When you see “Based on a True Story” on a movie poster or trailer one must take such a statement with a grain of salt. Despite what the movies tell us William Wallace of Braveheart fame did not have an affair with Isabelle of France (she was only nine years old at the time) nor…