The Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
Aug 17, 1999Italian Space Opera
One of the cheap Italian space operas of the 1960s from Antonio Margheriti. This has a certain colourful absurdity amid the mostly dull happenings and B-budget effects
Franco Nero
Camelot (1967)
Mar 27, 2001Arthurian Legends Musical
The Arthurian legends become the basis of this filmed version of a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. On screen with a name cast, the film is slow and stodgy
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
Nov 18, 2021Artist’s Hallucinations and Reality Blurrings
Strange, artistically stylised almost giallo film with Franco Nero as a frustrated artist blurring into visions from the past
Megiddo (2001)
Jul 4, 2004The Biblical End of the World
Sequel to the Biblical End Times/Antichrist film The Omega Code, this dispenses with preaching faith but still slips into absurdity
Bathory (2008)
Aug 8, 2011Historical Countess Bathory Story
Lushly made retelling of the Countess Bathory story, one that tries to make an interesting if historically questionable case that she was kind to servants and a misunderstood victim
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Jul 6, 2015Cannon Films Documentary
Absolutely fascinating documentary about Golan and Globus, the producers of a great deal of action, ninja, Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson films in the 1980s, plus many genre works, under the Cannon Films banner
The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)
May 19, 2023True-Life Exorcist
A film based on the true-life figure of the Vatican’s official exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth this could have been great but descends into tedious hokum