Having sent two young women to the sea floor in 47 Meters Down, the enterprising producers flip that sleeper hit’s script by sending two young women to the tippy-top of a TV tower for the vertically challenged, survive-or-die suspenser Fall. In its Cliffhanger-reminiscent prologue, Becky (Grace Caroline Currey, Shazam!) watches her husband (Mason Gooding, 2022’s … Continue reading Fall (2022)
Commented one skeptical reader on a Facebook post about Ski Films: A Comprehensive Guide, Bryan Senn’s latest book, “Ski films!?! Uhh … I’m not knocking it but I think people are running out of genres to write about??! Just an observation.” A fair observation, but one that misses the point. The majority of Senn’s bibliography … Continue reading Ski Films: A Comprehensive Guide
I love a good heist movie. Thirty Dangerous Seconds is not one. Written, directed and produced as pedestrian as possible by movie newbie Joseph Taft, the Oklahoma City-shot obscurity begins with a phone call as Lori (Kathryn Reynolds, Trilogy of Terror) pleads with her drunken oilman love, Glen (a sleepy Robert Lansing, 4D Man), to … Continue reading Thirty Dangerous Seconds (1973)
Among the events crammed into the needlessly distended Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen is a fun moment in which Charlie Hunnam’s drug-trade enforcer runs afoul of — and trades blows with — a group of street thugs. Russian Raid feels like an extension of that scene into nearly two hours of its own, turning a standout bit … Continue reading Russian Raid (2020)
I remember reading a story about Running Time in the pages of Film Threat sometime in the late 1990s and was pretty pumped to see it, especially with Bruce Campbell in the lead role. But, like many things written about in the long-gone and lamented magazine, it never came out. Sadly, I then completely forgot … Continue reading Running Time (1997)