Arrow’s Cold War Creatures: Four Films From Sam Katzman
Sam Katzman’s films may not have been fancy, but he gave big returns to studios on low investments. Starting his career work as a stage laborer when he was just thirteen, he made films in Hollywood for four decades. Movies were such a part of his life that he was even married on the set […]
The Giant Claw (1957)
Directed by Fred J. Sears (Don’t Knock the Rock, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Teen-Age Crime Wave), The Giant Claw is somehow inspired by matter and anti-matter, as well as la Carcagne, the mythical bird-like banshee from French-Canadian folklore. Yes, some heady material, but then this movie has one of the goofiest — and most awesome — […]
The Force on Thunder Mountain (1978)
Pumpkin, peaches, pumpkin pie, stick a needle in my eye . . . this friggin’ movie. Well, at least it gives us a lead actor — Christopher Cain, in his only film role — crooning his original tune, “Thunder Mountain.” But it ain’t no Jay Ferguson singin’ “Thunder Island” or Michael Martin Murphy lamenting about […]
A Night at the Magic Castle (1988)
Oh man, The Magic Castle, the place where Dai Vernon performed all the time. It’s an invite-only place where strict dress code and the ways of classic Hollywood still remain, a clubhouse for magicians and magic enthusiasts and the home of the Academy of Magical Arts. “The most unusual private club in the world,” visitors […]
Three Men on Fire (1986)
This review is all about expatriate American actors Gordon Mitchell and Richard Harrison. This review is not, however, about — although it spews bullets and blows up like one — an ’80s First Blood-cum-Commando Philippines war flick rip. And it’s not about an ’80s Italian First Blood-cum-Commando Philippines-esque war flick rip, either. And it’s also […]
Peter Carpenter Double Feature: Vixen (1968) and Love Me Like I Do (1970)
“The industry is in bad shape. The people in Hollywood don’t care about films. They’re only worried about lining their pockets.”— The Tinseltown wisdoms of Peter Carpenter These two, lost Peter Carpenter movies have dogged us long enough! It’s time we complete the review quartet of Pete’s four films, which includes his two writing and […]
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021)
Bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) and hit man Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) are back back together. Still unlicensed, Bryce is forced ito come back into the killer’s orbit by Darius’ wife, con artist Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek). Now, they have to save Europe from a killer virus and the plan to make Greece great […]
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