Released 60 years ago, Thunderball was the fourth movie starring Sean Connery as James Bond and remains one of the most successful films of the entire Bond franchise earning back more than 15 times its budget at the box office. Featuring large underwater sequences, the film is notable for the deaths of several key members of SPECTRE (including one at his own funeral in the opening sequence).
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Killer Heat is a flaccid attempt at neo-noir starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a private detective hired by a widow (Shailene Woodley) to look into the death of her husband (Richard Madden). The film is also burdened with a subplot of the family life our private investigator fled from which haunts him (when convient to the script). Adapted from a Norwegian short story, I don’t know if something got lost in translation or if there just wasn’t much here to begin with.
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Released to critical and box office acclaim, although not without controversy for its depiction of Arab characters and culture, it’s easy to forget the success Disney’s Aladdin had given it would be soon eclipsed by The Lion King just two years later. While not the title character, it’s impossible not to begin with Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie. Despite the negative experience with working with Disney, Robin’s stream-of-consciousness comic style translated terrifically to an animated character (even if I could do without some of the more obvious Disney pop-culture references).
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Mary Shelley’s novel has been adapted several times over the years on both stage and screen, but no version is more notable nor done more to bring the story to a wider audience than the 1931 Frankenstein. The Universal Studios’ film set the look of the classic Frankenstein Monster (Boris Karloff) which, despite being diffent than described in Shelley’s work, is still immediately recognizable today and synonymous with the name.
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Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, writer/director Frank Henenlotter‘s bizarre horror-comedy stars James Lorinz as a would-be scientist who attempts to bring back his girlfriend (Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen) after she’s dismembered in a ridiculous lawnmower accident. Needing body parts to fill out his Frankenstein-ish creation, Jeff targets Crack-addicted New York hookers who he kills off through the use of his new drug which make the group of half-naked women each explode in one of the film’s most memorable moments.
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