Today's review: Saddle the Wind.

The title Saddle the Wind makes it fairly obvious that the movie it’s attached to is a Western, but it also suggests that the movie will be somewhat melancholy. Perhaps it’s a movie about the last days of the Old West, or centers around a lonely rider who wants to settle down but knows he can’t. The actual movie ( Read more... )

This weekend's review: The Mouse That Roared.

I’d heard the name The Mouse That Roared before, but I didn’t know much of anything about it until I got an opportunity to watch it. I was a little more wary when I heard it starred Peter Sellers, because a lot of the movies I’ve watched with him since starting this blog have left me cold, but I was ( Read more... )

Today's (slightly late) review: Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman.

A title like Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman definitely does the job of making you want to see it, even if you suspect the movie is going to be pure schlock (though for some, that might be even more of a draw). In my case, I was curious about the title and ( Read more... )

This weekend's review: The Bigamist.

The Bigamist looked like a very interesting movie just from the title and description alone. A noir centered around someone having two spouses has a lot of potential, especially when you consider the way noirs often play out. Once I’d watched it, I’d say it’s still an interesting movie…just not quite in the ( Read more... )

Today's review: The Power of Few.

I’ll start off by saying that I like the concept of The Power of Few. In fact, for 4/5ths of the movie, I was enjoying the movie in general. The ending does bring things down massively, but that doesn’t mean the story as a whole isn’t worth talking about.

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The second half of the double feature, as hinted in my final paragraph yesterday, is the 2001 TV miniseries version of The Lost World.

There were four reasons I wanted to check out the 2001 TV miniseries of The Lost World. One, it would allow me to do a double feature with the Irwin Allen version (and make a retrospective of sorts when you throw ( Read more... )

This weekend's review is actually a double feature. So first up; the 1960 version of The Lost World.

I had two reasons I wanted to watch the 1960 version of The Lost World. One was because I’d already watched the 1925 version of the same story and wanted to compare it as best as my memory would allow; the other was because it was written and ( Read more... )

Today's review: Quantum Apocalypse.

A movie with a title like Quantum Apocalypse is pretty much begging to be seen, even if you know absolutely nothing about the movie. However, I did see a short summary before I watched it, which made me hope I was in for something like The Martian, where the focus was on plot and believable science rather than ( Read more... )

This weekend's review: My Year Without Sex.

When you see a movie with the title My Year Without Sex, it would be understandable if you hazarded a guess about what the movie would revolve around, and that’s before you read the summary. However, the truth of the matter is that the movie is a pretty big bait-and-switch, though it tries to hide this ( Read more... )

Today's review: Dangerous Moonlight.

Dangerous Moonlight gives every indication of being a typical war movie. It was made in 1941, the poster features airplanes, and while the title could easily be seen in other genres like noir, it works as a war film title when combined with the other elements. But while it occasionally feints in that direction ( Read more... )