Tag: Danny Bilson
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World War II soldiers meet aliens picture isn’t good enough as a WWII movie or as an alien movie. There are some solid original ideas, but mostly there are just bad ripoffs of more popular sci-fi and adventure films. It doesn’t help a lot of the acting is real bad. Biff Manard’s legitimately great, but…
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Cliff’s New York Adventure doesn’t feature any New York landmarks. No Rocketeer at the Empire State Building or Statue of Liberty. There’s a neat guest appearance by the Shadow (Stevens does a great job of dodging copyright infringement). It’s got a lot going on–there’s the resolution of the first story’s cliffhanger as Cliff confronts Betty…
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There’s something real strange about Trancers. It’s not the film’s obvious references to early 1980s sci-fi successes, Blade Runner and The Terminator (cop travels back in time to fight zombie bad guys who look like regular people). It’s certainly not the direction–while Trancers is incredibly low budget, $400,000 still was a few bucks in 1985,…
The Stop Button 