The 1979 boxing movie sequel Rocky II provides another fistful of dollars for Sylvester Stallone as writer, director and star of this virtual reprise of the original 1976 Rocky. In this one, the unemployed, inarticulate, […]
Dolph Lundgren stars in writer-director Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 boxing movie sequel Rocky IV as Russian boxer Ivan Drago, the so-called ‘Siberian Express’, who delivers a final knockout blow to Rocky Balboa (Stallone)’s old rival and […]
Another Robin Hood film? Really? Though it is amazingly eight years since Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (2010), director Otto Bathurst’s 2018 Robin Hood just goes to show that it is not nearly long enough. Cheeky chappy modern-day actor Taron Egerton is miscast […]
After 42 years, Creed II is the eighth film in the incredibly long-running Rocky franchise and the second focused on Apollo Creed’s son Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan). Well that is a milestone and possibly some kind of […]
The 2018 New Dragon Tattoo Story, Uruguay director Fede Alvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, is a brisk, capable and coldly efficient noir-style action crime thriller, but it is also uber-dark, gruelling and deeply unpleasant, […]
Director Mario Bava’s 1970 Italian giallo film 5 Bambole per la Luna d’Agosto [Five Dolls for an August Moon] is fascinating as a work of the much-admired cult film-maker and as a loose, uncredited adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel And Then […]
Director Mario Bava’s typically stylish 1970 giallo film Il Rosso Segno della Follia [A Hatchet for the Honeymoon] stars Stephen Forsyth, Dagmar Lassander, Laura Betti, and Femi Benussi. The screenplay is written by Santiago Moncada. Stephen Forsyth stars as the handsome, 30-year-old John Harrington, […]
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