Reviewing films from the past and the present, and occasionally ranting too!
Happy Holidays A fantastic Christmas film - it's been remade and updated, but for me there's nothing like the original 1947 version for a good feel-good film. Look... it's Santa, I mean Saint Nick, no I mean Kris Kringle Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) turns up to the Macy's Christmas parade only to be hired by… Continue reading Miracle on 34th Street (1947) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reed used to be a werewolf but he's okay nooooooooooooowww! 😉 Under the glow of a full moon if you hear a howl, it might just be Oliver Reed taking lycanthropic form in Hammer Films’ classic 1961 film “The Curse of the Werewolf”. Brief Description: An adopted boy terrorizes the inhabitants of his local town… Continue reading The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Welcome to fant... actually... Welcome to Hell! When a group of people turn up to a resort called Fantasy Island they are under the pretense that their stay will be the best holiday of their lives. While staying as guests on Fantasy Island, their deepest desire will play out in reality and they will get… Continue reading Fantasy Island (2020) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Making Christmas come more than once a year. Bond 19 is Pierce Brosnan's 3rd outing as the British double-0 agent. This film is directed by Michael Apted, written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, with a screenplay by Purvis, Wade, and Bruce Feirstein. Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are producers once again in their… Continue reading The World is Not Enough (1999) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Angry Bond out for revenge Bond 16 is Dalton's second outing in the role. Straight into the action, Bond assists Felix Leiter (David Hedison) to apprehend sadistic drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) on Leiter's wedding day (he is due to marry Della Churchill, played by Priscilla Barnes). Leiter is working with the DEA to… Continue reading License to Kill (1989) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This year was supposed to mark the release of the new 007 film "No Time to Die", but with a global pandemic running rife this has been moved back to 2021. While that's annoying for the fans and for the movie making industry it has allowed me time to re-watch all the old films from… Continue reading 007, Bond, James Bond – License to Kill
"The pain... The pain keeps the hunger away..." You know the score by now; military grade chemical has the ability to animate corpses who become brain-hungry zombies, chaos, panic, fighting, blood, guts, gore....welcome to the 2nd sequel to the successful "Return of the Living Dead" (1985), it's not really like what I have just described… Continue reading Return of the Living Dead III (1993) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
They're coming to get you, Barbara! Released in 1968, George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” is the grandfather of all modern zombie films. It might not be the first zombie film to grace the silver screen, that’s an honour reserved for Victor Halperin’s 1932 “White Zombie” which starred Bela Lugosi, but Romero’s classic… Continue reading Night of the Living Dead (1968) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Not even that bad that it's good for a laugh - a steaming pile of don't waste your time There are some TV movies that are good, there are some that are bad. Some are that bad they are good, and some are that good they shock and amaze. 2017's "Empire of the Sharks" is… Continue reading Empire of the Sharks (2017) ⭐
Great cast but otherwise nothing new Directed by Ariel Vromen this 2016 film has a runtime of 113 minutes and has a cast of A-List Hollywood player to delight. On it's release this film received extremely mixed reviews; some calling it a dark cult classic, while others suggesting it is just an updated version of… Continue reading Criminal (2016) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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