For years after the cancellation of the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series (1975-1979), this oddity floating in syndication, perplexing series fans because although it was a WW feature length drama, it starred Cathy Lee Crosby in a production that seemed tightly budgeted, and just looked and felt all wrong…
When Stephen Sommers pitched to Universal’s studio brass his vision to reinvigorate their classic monsters into a new franchises, he hit gold with The Mummy (1999), a boisterous and blatant homage of sorts to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) that benefited from high energy, broad humour, and the buddy-buddy pairing of a male and female leads…
Perhaps put into production to beat Tom Cruise’s The Mummy production by a year, this 4-part ITV mini-series was foolishly rebranded as The Mummy of Tutankhamun for North American home video, confusing DVD buyers who caught the series on TV…
The third film based on a Tennessee Williams play did great business upon its release, even earning Oscar nominations for Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, plus Art Direction-Set Decoration, but Suddenly, Last Summer is a strange little film whose pedigree hides a troubled production that may have contributed to the weird atmosphere…
Comrade Detective is billed by its executive producers as a forgotten Romanian TV detective series from 1983 that served as an overt propaganda loudspeaker for the corrupt Soviet dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu…
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