Goldbeater

I think that you simply could never get tired of watching Paul Newman, especially when he is playing a detective. However, this neo-noir does not come close to his Harper movies. After his previous collaboration with Robert Benton on the excellent Nobody's Fool, my expectations were a little different, and Twilight is, unfortunately, a bit bland throughout.

I admit I enjoyed Moonfall and I had a dumbfounded smile on my face during all the derailed craziness. However, you have to approach it as a total no-brainer (especially when listening to the dialogues). It was a pleasant surprise that John Bradley's character, who I was most worried about after watching the trailers, ended up being the movie's highlight. I enjoyed the plotline with him, Patrick Wilson, and Halle Berry. However, Moonfall also features a forced parallel plotline with family members on earth, which weighs it down, so it drags, and those moments were a stumbling block for me. Scenes with horribly written, uninteresting, unlikable, and even horribly acted characters (I do not want to see Charlie Plummer in anything again, ever) turned a stupid, if entertaining, guilty pleasure into a painful embarrassment.

Poor Bogdanovich, no aspiring filmmaker with big ambitions would or should have been dragged into making this "masterpiece". On the other hand, everybody has to start somewhere, and without Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, we would never have gotten Targets, The Last Picture Show, and Paper Moon. So even the worst repetitive movie like this is vindicated by cinematic history, which is probably the most positive thing I can say about it.

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is one of two versions adapted from the Soviet science fiction movie Planet of Storms. It was adapted for Western audiences and enhanced by the addition of principal scenes featuring Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue. Unlike the subsequent second Roger Corman-produced Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet at least sticks fairly faithfully to the tone of the original material and is not as regrettable in terms of filmmaking as its successor, which up-and-comer Peter Bogdanovich directed.

Planet of Storms is a fairly ambitious Soviet science fiction movie that contains quite a few iconic scenes, although the whole movie cannot be said to work together as a whole in a very satisfying way. However, if I had seen it as a child would probably have rather fond nostalgic memories of it because of the very good practical effects.

After the Venom movies, Sony Pictures continue chasing twenty-year-old cinematic dead ends, wishing to make sales only by sticking the popular Marvel brand name all over their product. However, if you strip this brand away from Morbius, you are left with the equivalent of all the cheesy direct-to-video vampire rubbish with bad actors and even worse special effects they used to release back in the day that flooded the cheaply produced DVD market around the year 2000 after the success of Blade. Few people were interested back then and no one is really interested now. At best, Morbius is just a bland, oft-seen comic book origin story with only the simplest conceivable plot. At its worst, it is a total cringefest with special effects and CGI reminiscent of a pixel holocaust. Uwe Boll would have approved.

The Lost City is a well calculated and refined movie that is inoffensive from a commercial point of view and is also quite unexceptional. Sandra Bullock's stony stiff upper lip and perfectly smoothed cheeks distracted me from the plot, as did the utterly pointless villain played by Daniel Radcliffe. However, he does his best despite the bad casting choice. You would be better off watching the excellent Romancing the Stone again, as The Lost City is just polished commercial crap you can easily do without.

If you want to break it down, this movie can be easily analyzed regarding any logic it may have, and a Michael Bay movie is just that, a Michael Bay movie. As a complete no-brainer, it is very entertaining with impressive stunts. Unfortunately, his tokenistic camerawork and editing techniques are really freaking overused in this movie. He should at least cut back on the coke in the future.

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb is a beautifully colorful, old-school, albeit rather unsurprising and uninteresting Hammer Films production. In addition, while the lead actress may have all the necessary attributes to lure the audience to the cinema through her promotional photos, I believe a dead fish would have acted better.

The one positive thing about the movie was the titular insect monster, which does not appear only at the last minute of the film, but the movie’s makers show it quite regularly throughout the story. It does not make the film any better as it is still overly verbose rubbish, where the actors (especially in the final scene) seem to be competing to see who can spout the most clichéd lines.