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Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Week 20, Round 1
The latest round of voting takes place here. The list of eliminations to date follows.
Summer Weekend Review: Quest for Fire (1981)
We’ve been reviewing older films on the weekend, suited to summer viewing, and the first three weeks have seen Hollywood’s most famous depictions of our primitive ancestors, One Million BC and One Million Years BC. Those films feature dinosaurs and serious camp appeal; 1981 saw a serious attempt at the subject, and took its inspiration from a 1911 novel.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Week 19, Round 1
The latest round of voting takes place here.
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Summer Weekend Review: “One Million Years BC” (1966)
It’s no Jurassic World but, for years, the Hammer remake of the One Million BC stood as the definitive humans with dinosaurs pic. It also kickstarted Raquel Welch’s career, and sold more than one million copies of that fur bikini pin-up.1
Jurassic World Tops Box Office A Third Week
A rarity for a Summer flick, the fourth Jurassic Park movie has maintained the top slot in the box office for a third week, making $54 million and totaling $500 million since its debut. It has also taken the lead from Avengers: Age of Ultron as the highest grossing film for 2015. The second Avengers movie (which was #10 at the box office this week) has totalled $452 million since it’s debut in May.
Pixar’s Inside Out (reviewed last week), stayed in second for another week at $52 million. Seth McFarlane’s Ted 2 debuted in third with $33 million.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Week 18, Round One
The latest round of voting is here. The list of eliminations to date follows.
Summer Weekend Review: “One Million BC” (1940)
It has been awhile since we’ve run weekend reviews of older genre movies and, with summer upon us, we’d like to once more supplement reviews and discussions of newer fare with a few seasonally-appropriate oldies. SF Beach Movies are rare, but the next few weeks will see reviews of the closest thing, the fantastic Caveman films from the cinematic past1.
(And they are topical just now)
Movie Review: Inside Out
After taking 2014 off, Pixar returns with two films this year (a first for the company). The first of which is a look inside the head of an eleven-year-old girl, Inside Out.
Their second film of 2015 is The Good Dinosaur and debuts in November.
Greatest Fantasy Film Tournament: Round One, Week Seventeen
The voting continues here. As usual, the complete eliminations list follows.