Seven Mummies is a conceptual oddity. Though the title gives the impression that it is a modern mummy film, what we have is a variant of the Western ghost town concept that we have seen in films like Ghost Town (1988), Phantom Town (1997), and Purgatory (1999). (I have a more detailed list of Western/genre […]
Massacre Time (Tempo di Massacro, Il Bruto e la Bestia), a Western directed by Lucio Fulci (known for The Beyond and House By the Cemetery) opens with a scene that could fit nicely into the horror movies that Shotgun Fullback will later become infamous for. While lurking in the woods, Jason “Junior” Scott (Nino Castelnuovo,
The planet Sargacia has Finders, who are intergalactic police. They’ve assigned Abraxas and Secundus to a particular case. Abraxas has been a Finder for almost ten thousand years. Relying on the Answer Box, a device that every Finder has and which works as a scanner and communicator, Abraxas is able to locate any object from
Few could contest the fact that Oliver Reed experienced some highlights throughout his career in cinema. He acted in films directed by Joseph Losey, Ken Russell, David Cronenberg, Nicolas Roeg, and Terry Gilliam, and was once briefly considered as a potential replacement for Sean Connery as James Bond. Not a great lover of the ‘Hollywood
From what I can tell, every type of genre exists within the indie film realm from all corners of the planet, and over the years we have witnessed some very impressive works, the one thing that usually drags a production’s impression down is the ‘artificial’ dialogue in the movie. It is strange that big-budget films
This year, Pegasus was among the strongest competitors for the Spring Festival holiday in China, ranked alongside The Wandering Earth and Crazy Alien. Written by Han Han, Pegasus is more literate than other films competing at the box office which was his goal when making it. This is evident in the film as it detaches
If you read my review of Sam Mendes’ 1917, you’d know I hardly ever go to the cinema unless the film piques my interest and at the beginning of March 2020, my husband and I went to watch an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Our going out for a movie ended up being one of
In the words of Barbara Kruger of 1981, “You contrive elaborate rituals which permit you to caress the body of other males”. In the most extraordinary and intolerable ways possible, A Warrior’s Heart, meticulously performs those “elaborate rituals” through its brutish protagonist Conor, the short-tempered American high school student, and Kellan Lutz, the hot-blooded actor
Owen Daybright is a ranch foreman for Colorado cattleman Arch Strobie, who happens to be Owen’s foster dad. While Owen is in the company of his foster brother Lee Strobie at a local saloon, they learn that Lily Fasken has given birth to a baby. The attending doctor explains that he was never summoned during
In the following article, you can check the summary of B-Movie Director Roger Corman’s filmography first and then his B-movie style over the years because this was written before his 2023 updated biography came out. The 1975 film features actor David Carradine’s one of the most iconic performances. According to Roger, it was the most
