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) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
And if the poison doesn't get you... God will. There is a good armful of films that come across as weird and strange while being absolutely engrossing, "Bad Boy Bubby" fits into that mold with ease. This Australian film: directed, written, and produced by Rolf de Heer is a low budget 114 minute film that… Continue reading Bad Boy Bubby (1993) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Looking cleverer than it is The 20th Bond film in Eon Productions franchise is Pierce Brosnan’s 4th and final outing as 007. It is also the 40th anniversary film in the franchise too, making it easily the longest running continuing series of films featuring repeated characters. Released in 2002 and with a runtime of 133… Continue reading Die Another Day (2002) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"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) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Send... more... paramedics! This 1985 B-Movie comedy horror film was born from of a split between George A Romero and John Russo after "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) (read more about that later). Described as a "mordant punk comedy", this zombie film broke a lot of the established rules created in other zombie films.… Continue reading The Return of the Living Dead (1985) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
They are us. The third film in George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) series is "Day of the Dead". While it is the third film in the original trilogy, fans of Romero will know that he did make more zombie films later in his career. This 1985 film raises the stakes in… Continue reading Day of the Dead (1985) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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