HELL’S ANGELS

1930 DIRECTORS: Howard Hughes,  James Whale & Edmund Goulding Big budget, elaborate air combat scenes which resulted in several deaths and Gimmick after gimmick... This has to be the Howard Hughes' World War 1 epic, Hell's Angels. Where to begin? Well, we follow the Routledge two brothers as they join the war effort and the…

WALL STREET

1987 DIRECTOR: Oliver Stone When looking to review a film like this, there are two distinct points of view to take in to a account: The first being the contemporary context. That being that this was made in 1987, at the height of the Wall Street boom and that, at the time, this must have…

SING (3D)

2016 DIRECTOR: Christophe Lourdelet & Garth Jennings I admit, I went into this with low expectations. It looked like a karaoke kids movie from an animation studio that I do not rate that highly. But what do I know? Illumination studios have managed to rack up a "Stinker" on this blog with The Lorax (3D) (2012),…

007 ~ DANIEL CRAIG

DANIEL CRAIG is Ian Fleming's 007 2006 - 2015 ??? #21 2006 - CASINO ROYALE Directed by Martin Campbell With Die Another Day signing off on Pearce Brosnan's Bond on a low note, well as fans were concerned (though I as not being a particular fan, I found this to be good fun), Casino Royale had…

007 ~ PIERCE BROSNON

PIERCE BROSNON is Ian Fleming's 007 1995 - 2002 #17 1995 - GOLDENEYE Directed by Martin Campbell Bond is back, from a six year hiatus. Reborn and softly rebooted as Pierce Brosnon. The history of Bond is littered with long winded stories about the complicated production issued but suffices to say that Brosnon was long…

007 ~ TIMOTHY DALTON

TIMOTHY DALTON is Ian Fleming's 007 1987 - 1989 #15 1987 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS   Directed by John Glen I am left eating my words as where Timothy Dalton's James Bond is concerned. Since I was a kid, and bare on mind that I was only 9 when The Living Daylights, Dalton's first of two…

007 ~ ROGER MOORE

ROGER MOORE is Ian Fleming's 007 1973 - 1985 #8 1973 - LIVE AND LET DIE Directed by Guy Hamilton The first of the Roger Moore movies, an era seen by many as the most silly, opens with Taro cards, Voodoo and a massive dose of Blacksploitation. But as the Bond series, now 11 years…

007 ~ GEORGE LAZENBY

GEORGE LAZENBY is Ian Fleming's 007 1969 #7 1969 - ON HER MAJESTIES SECRET SERVICE Directed by Peter Hunt With Connery quitting the role after six years and five films, it was time, for the 007 franchises first real challenge, to recast Bond. Model George Lazenby wins the role and whether it he ultimately quit…

007 ~ SEAN CONNERY

SEAN CONNERY is Ian Fleming's 007 1962 - 1967, 1971 & 1983 #1 1962 - DR. NO Directed by Terrence Young The first of the big screen Bond film adaptations would spawn so many of the movie franchises tropes, not least the interpretation of Bond by relative newcomer Sean Connery, who whether he was helped along…

POLICE ACADEMY 5: ASSIGNMENT: MIAMI BEACH

1988 STINKER! DIRECTOR: Alan Myerson After four anarchic, gag laden films, the fifth entry into the ever self-referential Police Academy series may have tipped the franchise over the edge. Never claiming to be anything but a broad comedy, the first movie followed the recruits, lead by Steve Gutenberg's Mahony, as they learned the trade, whilst the…