Watching the epics from cinema’s past is often a surreal experience as it’s kinda weird to see what trends were obsessing audiences during Hollywood’s many
Tag: Adventure
The Mummy Returns
The early millennium must have been Willy Wonka’s Chocolate factory for any filmmaker with adolescent tendencies who had been hired to tackle a sizable summer
The Mummy
Back in 1999, I remember emerging from the cinema feeling a little nonplussed about The Mumny, Stephen Sommers’ mega budgeted remake of the classic Universal
Jungle Cruise
Not content with the seemingly endless stream of content they’ve gleaned from Marvel, Star Wars and all the times they’ve remade their own movies into
The Legend Of Tarzan
Hands up if you can remember the last Tarzan movie you saw? Not even the last GOOD Tarzan movie, just the last one, period.A George
Romancing The Stone
In the ranks of underrated action adventure movies of the 80’s, surely no other movie containing acts of rousing darring do deserves more modern column
Tarzan’s New York Adventure
After a relentless production schedule that saw six films churned out in a decade like some loin clothed obsessed production line, the MGM Tarzan series
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure
Reviewing sequels can be hard – especially old ones. There’s always that issue that back then, filmmakers didn’t seem to be all that bothered about
Tarzan Finds A Son!
Anyone following Johnny Weissmuller’s run of early Tarzan movies would no doubt notice that apart the furious jungle action that seems to occur every thirteen
The Guns Of Navarone
When you amass the titans of the men on a mission sub-genre of the movies made about the Second World War, more often than not
Where Eagles Dare
The “men on a mission” movie has had some cracking entries over the years with everything from most of Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible movies to
Tarzan Escapes
Obviously seeing that they had a good thing going with their double team of Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, MGM dove into the deep pools
Tarzan And His Mate
Ever since Johnny Weissmuller’s version of Edgar Rice Burroughs legendary beefcake literally first swung into theaters with 1932’s Tarzan The Ape Man, you’d be hard
Tarzan The Ape Man
The 30’s in Hollywood was a crazy time. As technological advancements meant that filmmakers could experiment as never before and the screen was seeing the
The Rocketeer
Joe Johnston’s hiring for the first Captain America movie was hardly a surprise to anyone familiar with his career to date. Initially a big cog
The Legend Of Zorro
Back in 1998, the previous Zorro nimbly dived into cinemas, slicing his initial into virtually everything he could find in Martin Campbell’s stonking resurrection of
The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad
The cinematic legend that is Ray Harryhausen, has had a impact that effects genre filmmaking to this day. Sure, the technique may be different with
The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot
Genre mashing is one of the greatest things there is about genre cinema – a cinematic practice of squishing different types of movie together to
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
By as early as 1981, Steven Spielberg had pretty much already set his legacy in concrete with the releases of the genre defining Jaws and
King Kong
Comfortably perched on it’s own metaphorical Empire State Building as the greatest action/adventure movie ever made, King Kong lives up to his name. Inspiring virtually
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