Showing posts with label Simon Ward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simon Ward. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 July 2021

Supergirl (1984)


 

After losing a powerful orb, Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, comes to Earth to retrieve it and instead finds herself up against a wicked witch. 

Of course, it's a silly comic strip adaptation, but made with lots of wit and irony, exciting sequences, and Dunaway has a field day as the bad bad witch.

Halliwell*: "Playful comic strip spectacular which entertains in Wizard of Oz style for most of its way but was savaged by the critics."

Maltin*1/2: "This comic-book movie is a super-drag: long, dull, heavy-handed. Slater is cute but bland in title role; Dunaway is a predictably campy villainess." 



Tuesday, 16 March 2021

The Four Feathers (1978)



 

When British Lieutenant Faversham resigns his commission rather than fight in the 1882 Sudan war, his army pals present him with the four white feathers of cowardice. 

Superior TV production of the popular novel is well-made with an appropriately selected cast, but is a bit lacking in the drama department.

Halliwell: "An effective TV movie..."


 

Saturday, 18 June 2016

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)


Baron Frankenstein, together with a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnap a mentally sick doctor to perform the first brain transplantation ever.