The Mighty Peking Man (1977) – Review

Insisting that all the 70s remake of King Kong was missing was more Asians and a far hornier ape, Shaw Brothers studios broke away from

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The Shadow (1994) – Review

After Tim Burton’s Batman broke big in 89, the race was on to try and find the next gloomy, brooding, urban vigilante to bring to

Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (2023) – Review

Even though the imminent demise of the endlessly beleaguered DCEU has been common knowledge for some time now, the controversial connected universe has longer to

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny (2023) – Review

How much did we really need another Indiana Jones movie? After Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull screwed up Last Crusade’s note perfect ending with CGI

Battle Beyond The Stars (1980) – Review

If you thought Guardians Of The Galaxy was a space opera that boasted some exceedingly eccentric characters, you really should take a gander at Battle

The People That Time Forgot (1977) – Review

As a young child, any kind of public holiday meant that the lunchtime airwaves would be alive with movies of varying genres and even more

Tarzan Triumphs (1942) – Review

1942 brought a sizable change to life in the Great Encarpment as Sol Lesser (who had previous produced rival Tarzan movies for Twentieth Century Fox)

At The Earth’s Core (1976) – Review

Sometimes a movie is so relentlessly cheesy and dated that it virtually becomes critic proof. Take that series of epically staged Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations

Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959) – Review

By the late 50’s, Tarzan had swung through many adventures in numerous incarnations, but few would guess that Edgar Rice Burroughs’ lion wrasslin’ loin clother

The 13th Warrior (1999) – Review

Before Robert Eggers’ The Northman and six seasons of Michael Hirst’s insanely popular Vikings, movies featuring those notoriuos, shaggy Nordic marauders (let alone good ones)

Avatar (2009) – Review

There’s no doubting the success of Avatar, James Cameron’s all-conquering sci-fi that saw the self proclaimed king of the world defy skeptics once again and

Warlords Of Atlantis (1978) – Review

Doug McClure suddenly finding himself stranded in fantastical realms and fighting off rubbery monsters seemed to happen so often during the 70’s it seemed to

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) – Review

Perhaps it’s only fitting that the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies seemed to be getting worse the more money they made at the box office;

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) – Review

I’ve never really been one to complain about inferior sequels taking the sheen of a glowing original, but I really have to think that the

Space Amoeba (1970) – Review

Boasting an original title that translates as Gezora, Ganimes, and Kamoebas: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas – but released in America with

Back To The Future Part III (1990) – Review

Sometimes movies just get a bad rap for no other reason than they decided to do something a tad left field. Take the concluding chapter

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) – Review

There’s always that pressure for sequels to expand on all that has come before, but where do you go when the franchise started by being

Back To The Future Part II (1989) – Review

Even during his 80’s blockbuster phase, director Robert Zemeckis seemed to relish making things ridiculously difficult for himself. Even before he was manipulating technology to

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) – Review

While it makes a certain amount of financial sense for certain, modern trilogies to double up on their final two installments (before the arrival part

Back To The Future (1985) – Review

If you were to hop into a time travelling Delorean and zapped ahead fifty or sixty years into the future (while hopefully avoiding your relatives,

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