Commando
Sylvester Stallone claims this film was made in response to Rambo, during the Stallone/Schwarzenegger cinematic arms race that claimed more onscreen lives than the Cold War. An invincible ex-military man […]
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Why I was wrong about Star Trek: Insurrection
In 2015 I reviewed Star Trek: Insurrection. In that review I concluded it’s one of the worst Star Trek films, feeling more like a drawn out episode than a proper […]
Screens of the Stone Age: 1,000,000 B.C.
Twenty-six years before One Million Years B.C., when Raquel Welch was still in fur diapers, came 1940’s 1,000,000 BC. This slice of cinematic prehistory follows much the same story as […]
Screens of the Stone Age: Alpha
10,000 years before 10,000 BC, Alpha deals not just with early humans but early canines, as we discover how dogs became to man what diamonds are to girls. Like 10,000 […]
Screens of the Stone Age: 10,000 BC
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, lived a strange pair of goblins. They didn’t know who they were. Or what they were doing. So they […]
The Mask of Zorro
During the Mexican War of Independence, masked vigilante and sword graffiti pioneer Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) is a symbol of hope for an oppressed people. But when he’s imprisoned for 20 […]
Underwater
A deep-sea driller (Kristen Stewart) does some serious offshore boring in her latest box office bellyflop. Hot on the heels of the now long-forgotten Charlie’s Angels reboot, Stewart reaches new […]
He Who Dares
Downing Street is under siege in this action movie whose most realistic aspect is how easy it is to get into Number 10. This rip-off of Olympus Has Fallen and […]
Superman III
Clarke Kent (Christopher Reeve) lives out everyone’s fantasy and goes to a high school reunion with superpowers. Meanwhile accidental computer hacker Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) is accosted by oil tycoons […]
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Calvin (Sam Harris) is a World War Two veteran who killed Hitler in a secret mission, and now lives out his life peacefully in a small town. That is, until […]
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