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.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Funny money
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.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Probably not worth a gamble
Feb 20
Made during the dying days of Cannon Films, Fifty/Fifty is not without some merit, but overall it can’t hold a candle to Cannon product from its glory days.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
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.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Getting carsick
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.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Communist spaghetti!
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.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
What happens to ordinary people after a great traumatic experience? Fragments (a.k.a. WINGED CREATURES) provides an interesting and insightful look at the various things that can happen to these people.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
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…well, obviously not gloom of night.
Nothing, it seems can stop our fireworks from going ahead, which over the last three years have thumbed their noses at the worst bushfires we’ve ever had and two different manifestations of a pandemic.
So of course I had to share:
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Things are pretty disastrous here, so I can only hope that life is being kinder to the rest of you. There doesn’t seem much to say beyond “Take care” and “Good luck”, so I will say both most sincerely. Here’s hoping that 2022 gives us a break—and sooner rather than later.
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(Ahem. The other thing I should say is—apologies to those people I owe emails. You know who you are. And more to the point, so do I.)
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.Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
The 1976 horror movie The Keeper is one of actor Christopher Lee’s most obscure efforts. And since it’s Canadian, it is also one of his worst.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
The whole extended El Santo family got breakthrough COVID infections for Christmas this year, so this update is both a week or so late and a couple reviews short. I’ll rectify the second half of that next time. For now, though:
The Lost Empire (1983), in which pretty girls with big boobs take on the mysterious final holdover of an ancient, pre-human civilization…
The Phantom Empire (1988), in which the mysterious, final holdover of an ancient, pre-human civilization is a pretty girl with big boobs…
The Stalls of Barchester (1971), in which a fusspot scholar finds the cathedral library that he’s supposed to be cataloguing a total bore until he gets to the personal papers of an extremely naughty archdeacon…
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A Warning to the Curious (1972), in which the aforementioned fusspot scholar has an altogether more direct encounter with supernatural peril.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
A Con’em film
Dec 22
By 2002, PM Entertainment was on its last legs, at this point making movies like Con Express, where the extensive footage cribbed from other movies was in every way much better than anything they newly filmed.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.