Cape Fear (1962) – Review

Sometimes, watching a film and its remake ass-backwards can be a shocking mistake to make. Watch the redux first – even one as top drawer

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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) – Review

Anyone who has watched the thoroughly unnecessary Dirty Dozen TV movie, Deadly Mission, will probably agree that it’s an extremely pale imitation of an original

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) – Review

True story. When I watched The Fatal Mission, the fourth and final entry into the thoroughly unnecessary trio of TV movie sequels to follow The

Cannonball Run II (1984) – Review

If you look at it a certain way, Cannonball Run II makes perfect sense. After all, wasn’t the first Cannonball Run only an exaggerated progression

Kelly’s Heroes (1970) – Review

Back in the glory days of the Second World War movie, you could always count on selfless acts of heroism to save the day as

Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) – Review

You’d think that having a disparate group of survivors fight to escape the upside-down hellscape of an upturned ocean liner would be drama enough, but

Escape To Athena (1979) – Review

When you take a good, long, hard look at that much-loved sub-genre of the war film – the men on a mission movie – there’s

Horror Express (1972) – Review

The 70’s brought a wave of realism to the horror genre the likes of which had never been seen before with such mavericks such a

The Dirty Dozen (1967) – Review

You know what most of those war time movies featuring men on a desperate mission have in common – apart from usually having big Hollywood

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) – Review

The times were a’ changing and Sean Connery, whose smirking visage had impishly eyed many women from his vantage point of being swaddled in a