Free Solo (2018) is an exhilarating, nail-biting, penetrating, revealing documentary on the weird life and times of rock climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold. It is nominated for one Oscar for Best Documentary Feature (for Jimmy Chin, […]
Co-writer/ director Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s fluffy, flashy, good-looking, nicely done Italian 1954 international spectacle The Queen of Babylon [La Cortigiana di Babilonia] is made in glorious colour (Ferraniacolor), which has the benefit of doing full […]
Co-writer/ director Fernando Cerchio’s 1961 Italian sword-and-sandal historical drama epic Nefertite, Regina del Nilo [Queen of the Nile] stars Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price and Edmund Purdom, who in 1954 had starred in The Egyptian, which has a similar […]
Director George Templeton’s 1951 romantic historical adventure Quebec is silly, unpersuasive costumed tosh located during the 1830s Canadian battle for independence from Britain. The emphasis is on a soapy personal story in which the governor’s […]
Director Edward F Finney’s campy, low-budget 1947 poverty row adventure film Queen of the Amazons stars Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison and J Edward Bromberg. Made in black and white by Edward F Finney Productions, and released by Screen Guild Productions, […]
Escape Room is watchable but it’s a cliched story, the acting is pretty bad, and the movie is pretty bad too. Six really boring strangers are given boxes and find themselves in mystery rooms, and […]
Producer Sy Weintraub took over the Tarzan franchise from Sol Lesser with Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure in 1959 and Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), and gave it a bright new look in colour, reviving the series, and now gives it […]
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