The legendary director Larry Buchanan was behind the documentary The Other Side Of Bonnie & Clyde, and depicts the real life figures with the equal amount of taste, budget, and professionalism he later used in his biopics of Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hughes, and Jimi Hendrix.Apr 21
Despite gathering together stars like Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Vincent Gardenia, Victor Mature, and Eli Wallach, Firepower ends up shooting blanks.
Filmed in the mid-1970s, but not released until 2010, Duke Mitchell’s Gone With The Pope is somewhat disjointed, badly acted, misguided, and often quite unintentionally silly. Still, there is something about this movie……but it turns out that post-COVID brainfog I’d been hearing about is a very real thing, which you don’t even have to get all that sick to experience. I think I’ve got it all blown away now, but I couldn’t concentrate on a damned thing for a while there. Sadly, that also means that the little something special I had meant to do here in March will need to get pushed forward a few months. Anyway, we’ll start with the purely new stuff:
Angel Heart (1987), in which obviously nothing good will come of doing any kind of contract work for Satan…
Cat People (1982), in which getting rejected by Nastassja Kinski is rough on were-leopards and film directors alike…
No Escape (1994), in which 1994’s dystopian idea of 2022 is in some ways preferable to the real thing..
and…
Southern Comfort (1981), in which colonialist arrogance doesn’t go over any better in the bayou than it does in the jungles of Indochina.
I’ve got a few rewritten reviews, too, but only one of them got the kind of up-from-the-studs rebuild that’s characterized the series so far:
The Crimson Cult (1968), which started life as an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dreams in the Witch House,” although you’d never know it from watching the film…
Dinosaur Island (1994), in which I perform some much-needed reconstructive surgery on one of the first reviews I ever wrote…
and…
Gigantis the Fire Monster (1955), in which the goad to rewriting action was finally getting to see the Japanese cut.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
Mar 22
Is Space Warriors as exciting and spectacular as that poster art makes it out to be? No.Mar 12
It’s quite amazing that the horror movie The Unholy takes a potent subject like Satan and uses it to make a mostly boring movie.Mar 2
What makes the comedy The Great Bank Hoax a delight to watch is how it finds an identifiable and funny viewpoint of various human weaknesses.
While you may think that the premise of a resurrected samurai out on the streets of Los Angeles has great potential, with Ghost Warrior (a.k.a SWORDKILL), producer Charles Band and his family somehow managed to suggest the opposite.Jan 31
I don’t know why one of the stars of a smash hit American sitcom would agree to be a co-star in the lame Canadian comedy Dr. Cabbie. However, I do know that I would tell him: Fire your agent.Jan 21
With The Legend Of The Titanic, I have now reviewed *both* Italian-made animated movies concerning the sinking of the Titanic. Which movie is worse? Hoo-boy. Well, this one got help from a foreign country… though that country was North Korea.