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Thursday, 23 September 2021

Valley of the Dolls (1967)


 

Three women, all of whom make a career in the world of glamour, experience a string of failed relationships. As they get older, they resort to pills to numb the pain they are going through.

A sordid pulp melodrama gets high-gloss Hollywood treatment; the result is what one would expect, and its not so good.

Halliwell*: "Cliche-ridden but good-looking road-to-ruin melodrama from a bitchy bestseller; production values high, but the whole thing goes over the top at the end."

Maltin BOMB: "Scattered unintentional laughs do not compensate for terribly written, acted, and directed adaptation of Jacqueline Susann novel..." 



Saturday, 21 April 2018

Earthquake (1974)



Various stories of various people as an earthquake of un-imaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.

Risible and bad disaster movie, the advertised "Sensurround" sound probably installed to drown out the ridiculous 'special effects'.

On renewed viewing: pretty bad, trashy entertainment.

Halliwell*: "Dreary drama with very variable special effects, gimmicked up by Sensurround. A box-office bonanza."

Maltin BOMB: "...hackneyed disaster epic..."