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Film7070 Week 7: 2004
2004: Brotherhood Brotherhood is an epic Korean war movie in the same mould as Saving Private Ryan. Like Spielberg’s film it features some shockingly brutal battle scenes but it also... -
Film7070 Week 6: 1961 & 1990
1961: Tierra Brutal aka The Savage Guns I had high hopes for Tierra Brutal. It’s a film that’s not easy to find, but, being a fan of Richard Basehart since... -
Film7070 Week 5: 1957
1957: The Tall T I’ve often heard the classic westerns produced by Director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott spoken of with a reverence reserved for the likes of the... -
Film7070 Week 4: 2007
2007: Hot Fuzz Well if the idea behind Film7070 was to see how films have influenced each other over the years then I doubt I’ll find a film where the... -
Film7070 Week 3: 1970
1970: The Dunwich Horror This early attempt to bring the work of H.P. Lovecraft to the screen owes as much to Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby as it does to the master... -
Film7070 Week 2: 1978
1978: The Shout What to make of The Shout? Well this late seventies attempt at art house horror was, for me at least, a disappointing failure. It doesn’t lack for...
Latest Reviews
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Film7070 Week 7: 2004
2004: Brotherhood Brotherhood is an epic Korean war movie in the same mould as Saving Private Ryan. Like Spielberg’s film it features some shockingly brutal battle scenes but it also... -
Film7070 Week 6: 1961 & 1990
1961: Tierra Brutal aka The Savage Guns I had high hopes for Tierra Brutal. It’s a film that’s not easy to find, but, being a fan of Richard Basehart since... -
Film7070 Week 5: 1957
1957: The Tall T I’ve often heard the classic westerns produced by Director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott spoken of with a reverence reserved for the likes of the... -
Film7070 Week 4: 2007
2007: Hot Fuzz Well if the idea behind Film7070 was to see how films have influenced each other over the years then I doubt I’ll find a film where the... -
Film7070 Week 3: 1970
1970: The Dunwich Horror This early attempt to bring the work of H.P. Lovecraft to the screen owes as much to Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby as it does to the master... -
Film7070 Week 2: 1978
1978: The Shout What to make of The Shout? Well this late seventies attempt at art house horror was, for me at least, a disappointing failure. It doesn’t lack for... -
Film7070 Week 1: 1955 & 1965
What, you may be asking yourself, is Film7070? It started off as a challenge Dan Auty (aka MondoDan) set himself for 2011 – watch 70 films, one from each year... -
The Weekend Western: A Bullet for the General
This is an overtly political spaghetti western from Damiano Damiani and, with its anti-American intervention message, it’s still very relevant today. The story deals with an American who falls in... -
Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting: The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge
This third outing for Sonny Chiba’s Takuma Tsurugi comes as something of a letdown. Gone are the insanely gory deaths of the first two films, replaced by a lot of... -
The Friday Night Fright: The House of Whipcord
This sleazy little film was a lot more enjoyable than I was expecting. Director Pete Walker generates a fair amount of tension early on, and populates the film with some... -
Comic Tales: Superman IV – The Quest for Peace
Christopher Reeve’s reign as The Man of Steel comes to a rather ignominious end with this, his fourth outing. Not that Reeve is bad, in fact he clearly still had... -
Watching the Detectives: Ryoko Shinohara is Natsumi Yukihira in Unfair – The Movie
This spin off film from a Japanese TV series suffers on two counts, firstly it’s trying to be Die Hard in a hospital but hasn’t got nearly enough action to... -
Literally Speaking: Winter People
I’m a bit of a Kurt Russell fan, in fact I get a bit of ribbing by family members over how big a Kurt fan I am. That’s not to... -
I Spy: The Constant Gardener
In the modern world big business has as much to hide as governments, and Fernando Meirelles’ film of spy story supremo John le Carré’s novel is an espionage story where... -
Comic Tales: Death Note – The Last Name
This sequel to the original Death Note picks up directly where the first film left off, no real surprise as the films were made at the same time, and has... -
Watching the Detectives: William Powell and Myrna Loy are Nick and Nora Charles in Shadow of the Thin Man
This is my favourite of the series so far, with William Powell as Nick Charles not only having to get to the bottom of the usual murder mystery but also... -
Literally Speaking: The ODESSA File
Frederick Forsyth’s onscreen blurb at the start of the film tells the viewer that the film (of his novel) is based on real events but how closely the film mirrors... -
I Spy: Thunderball
Bond hunts for two stolen nuclear warheads and comes face to face with SPECTRE’s Agent 2, Emilio Largo . By this point in the Bond series the freshness had started... -
SF & Fantasy Sunday: Tokyo – The Last Megalopolis
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis blends the development of Tokyo as a city in the early years of the twentieth century with the occult battle between the powers of good and... -
The Weekend Western: Yankee
Before he became famous as a director of erotica, Tinto Brass made this early spaghetti western that’s very much in the Fistful of Dollars mould. A stranger known only as... -
Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting: Zatoichi the Outlaw
This was the first Zatoichi film produced by Shintarô Katsu’s production company and it’s trying a little too hard to be a blind swordsman epic. The storyline is more complex... -
The Friday Night Fright: The Eye
I’ve a lot of time for the Pang Brothers, their films are visually stylish but not at the expense of character and they’ve managed to avoid getting pigeonholed as horror... -
TV Tomb: The Guns of Will Sonnett – Season 1
While I remember several of the western TV shows of the ‘60s this one escapes me, in fact I’m not even sure it was ever shown on UK television. It’s... -
Comic Tales: Fantastic Four
Anyone expecting the serious minded superheroics of X-Men, or the angst-ridden thrills of Spider-Man would perhaps have been a bit disappointed by Fantastic Four, but for me it does a... -
Watching the Detectives: John Wayne is McQ
Stan Boyle, a friend of Lon McQ’s, is found badly wounded and the veteran cop is convinced local villain Manny Santiago is behind it, so he goes looking for a... -
Literally Speaking: No Way Out
No Way Out starts with Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) being questioned, by whom and about what isn’t really clear. The film then jumps back three months and starts... -
I Spy: The Spy with My Face
Evil organisation THRUSH (the series never explained what the acronym stands for) attempts to infiltrate UNCLE (that one stands for “United Network Command for Law and Enforcement”) by replacing their... -
SF & Fantasy Sunday: Battlefield Earth
It’s one thing to read how bad a film is but until you actually experience it first hand it’s hard to appreciate just how truly awful it can be. Case... -
Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting: Return of the Street Fighter
Sonny Chiba returns as Takuma Tsurugi for the orgy of violence that is Return of the Street Fighter. Chiba’s character may not be quite as cold and merciless as he... -
The Weekend Western: Ulzana’s Raid
When Ulzana leads a band of renegade Apaches off the reservation, Lieutenant DeBuin is assigned to capture or kill him. Along with his cavalry detachment DeBuin is assigned two scouts,...
