This weekend's review: Gray Lady Down.

Despite being a submarine-centric movie, Gray Lady Down isn’t a reject from my Sub Month project; I just stumbled across it somewhere else and thought the title and summary made it worth seeing. And the movie does wind up containing elements that work or that I like. The problem is, those bits are scattered ( Read more... )

And now we return to business as usual with today's review; From Time to Time.

I was sold on the idea of From Time To Time when cinematixyz here on Livejournal mentioned that it involved the 1700’s and a captain in the British Royal Navy, though of course the rest of the plot sounded interesting too. But I was busy with other things and forgot about the ( Read more... )

The second half of the double feature, as hinted in my final paragraph yesterday, is the 2001 TV miniseries version of The Lost World.

There were four reasons I wanted to check out the 2001 TV miniseries of The Lost World. One, it would allow me to do a double feature with the Irwin Allen version (and make a retrospective of sorts when you throw ( Read more... )

Part one of this weekend's post-Halloween double feature: Vampire Over London.

I found out about Vampire Over London when I was watching the previously reviewed You’ll Find Out. As You’ll Find Out had been more of a horror comedy, I figured this one would be more of the same. I was correct on that score, though I’d also say this one trends even ( Read more... )

Today's review: The 1990 TV movie adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde.

By this point in the retrospective, I was assuming all the Jekyll and Hyde adaptations would hit most of the same beats. Jekyll would be portrayed as a decent guy who wanted to separate our good and evil halves and there would be at least one major female character to serve as a love ( Read more... )

Today's review: Humshakals.

While my experiences with Bollywood movies have been hit and miss, and I definitely think most of them go on too long, I still don’t mind checking them out as long as they have a promising sounding plot. Humshakals looked like it might be an amusing comedy, so it went on my “to watch” list. Well, I can definitely say it ( Read more... )

Today's review: Relentless.

Relentless has a good title and looked like it had an interesting plot, and since I’m a fan of thrillers, I figured I’d give it a shot. Once I’d finished watching, I concluded that the overarching idea was good, and there were parts that were generally well handled. But I also think that some of the finer details were a ( Read more... )

This weekend's review: Oh Heavenly Dog.

I was of mixed opinions about Oh Heavenly Dog when I sat down to watch it. On the one hand, the title wasn’t very promising. On the other, the summary was. Now that I’ve seen it, I’d say my opinions are still mixed, though for more sophisticated reasons.

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This weekend's review: The Game.

The longer I think about The Game, the less I like it. I wanted to watch it because it sounded like a thriller with a neat “what is reality?” type hook. What I got was a movie that left me very uncomfortable.

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This weekend's review: Zotz!

I’m always a bit curious about movies that have exclamation points in their titles, generally wondering why the crew felt compelled to add punctuation to the title and if it’ll ultimately make sense that they did so. In the case of Zotz!, it also had the draw of being a comedy, and I was hoping for wacky shenanigans. ( Read more... )