Finally got around to The Expendables today. (Actually, I’ve been so busy this summer that it’s the only theatrical release I’ve gotten to this summer, and that only because Alex insisted I go see it.) My reaction to it wasn’t as rapturous as, say, this one, but mainly because I knew exactly what I’d get [...]
What can I say? Robert J. Lippert kept bankrolling mediocre genre programmers to fill out double bills, and VCI Entertainment keeps releasing them on DVD and sending them to me, so I keep reviewing them. Tonight’s fare: Renegade Girl (1946).
Confession time: I hadn’t ever seen The Last Man on Earth (1964) before I watched it specifically to review. But I read Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend last year, on which this movie is based, and years ago I had seen The Omega Man (1971), the Charlton Heston vehicle even more loosely based on [...]
… no new movie review tonight. Alas.
The B-Masters Cabal had decided to do a roundtable of TV-movies from the golden age of the ’70s and early ’80s, and I had planned to do Spectre (1977), which starred Robert Culp as an occult detective. Unfortunately, just a few days ago i looked up some information on it and remembered that it was [...]
Ghosts of Goldfield (2007) squanders both a real-life Nevada ghost town setting and the inestimable Rowdy Roddy Piper, two elements which should separately make your movie palatable and together render your movie awesome. Alas.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good legend, right? That’s why Jesse James was the semi-hero in a bunch of 20th-century Westerns. But of all the Jesse James movies made, The Great Jesse James Raid (1953)… is one of them.
There’s really nothing original in Sam’s Lake (2005) — how original can you be with “five twentysomethings go to a getaway cabin and encounter the local boogeyman?” — but at least it feels sincere. It’s not a bad movie, until a story twist pretty much ruins it.
