Thursday, May 31, 2012

Movie review - "Ride Clear of Diablo" (1954) **1/2

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Audie Murphy Western which starts off fairly predictably - his father and brother are killed and Audie goes looking for revenge. But there...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Movie review - "The Muppets" (2011) ****

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A brilliantly successful to update the old franchise (a horrid word but appropriate nonetheless). They really pulled it off - it explains wh...

Movie review - "Iron Sky" (2012) **1/2 (warning: spoilers)

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There isn't really a justification for Australian tax payer money to be in this, but at least it's different - a very stupid, very f...

Movie review - "Duel at Silver Creek" (1952) **

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An early work from Don Siegel and you can feel his effort to make a decent film - there's energy in the staging, exciting tracking short...

Book review - "Cleopatra" (1889) by H Rider Haggard (warning: spoilers)

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Not long after he wrote She Haggard came up with another tale set in an exotic land about a handsome man who falls for a beautiful, ruthless...

Movie review - "Demetrius and the Gladiators" (1954) *** (warning: spoilers)

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Hollywood didn't go in for sequels as back back in the 1950s, outside of official movie series, but The Robe made so much money, and had...

Movie review - "The Criminal" (1960) **1/2 (warning: spoilers)

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A fusion of the American and British gangster film - expat director Joe Losey has a high old time with this tale of hardened crim Stanley Ba...