All the latest Movieland investigations from detectives Dick Japowski & Joey Arizona.
The Arizona Case Files
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
An expedition featuring Peter Cushing head into the Himalayas in search of the mythical yeti...as you'd expect from a Hammer movie it doesn't end well for everyone involved.
The production on this film is exceptional for the time, the mountain sets are fantastic and they're often cut with aerial shots of the men on the mountain. However I prefer a little more monster in my monster movies.
Rewatch: 2.5 Doughnuts
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Glass (2019)
The world's of Shyamalan come together, and depending on how you look at it this Glass is both half full and half empty. Deep and meditative or empty and slow? The kind of movie that "splits" audiences. It's been a few days, so I'm at the point where I think it may have been ok or I may just be being hoodwinked I just can't tell!
First watch: 2.5 Doughnuts
The Arizona Case Files
Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017)
Jack Sparrow and the usual suspects return for a fifth swashbuckling adventure, and there's plenty of swashbuckling and adventure to be had. At this point if you've seen one Pirates movie you've seen them all though, ridiculous set pieces, Sparrow switching between drunken idiot/genius and a cursed sea captain that wants his blood. check, check, and check.
First watch: 3 Doughnuts
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The Rep (2012)
Documentary chronicling the first year of a repertory cinema in Toronto and the three friends who didn't think it would be so hard to make it work.
Other second run movie theatres are highlighted, but unless you have Quentin Tarantino behind you, it seems this an increasingly difficult business to get into.
All that said it only made me want to do it more!
First watch: 4 Doughnuts
The Arizona Case Files
Daylight (1996)
Sylvester Stallone gets caught up in the mid-nineties obsession with disaster based action movies, but not to be out done by tornadoes and volcanoes Sly gets massive explosions followed by massive flooding, it's a two for one sale.
Rewatch: 3 Doughnuts
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Blood Father (2016)
A former biker gang member and recovering addict has his now tranquil life flipped upside down when his estranged daughter contacts him out of the blue. She's got on the wrong side of some bad apples, and now they're hunting her down. So father of the year Mel Gibson takes his offspring on the run.
Gibson might not be the one of Hollywood's biggest big shots, but he can still make some cracking movies.
First watch: 4 Doughnuts
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The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
In their second big screen outing Kermit and the gang head to New York, with a dream of putting their musical on Broadway.
Full of great gags, but some of the musical numbers fall a little flat, particularly the Muppet Babies section. But this is definitely still one of the best Muppet Movies.
Rewatch: 4 Doughnuts
Have you seen any of the movies we've investigated? What's your verdict? Are they guilty or innocent? Let us know in the comments below.