Literary rating: ★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ★★★ Bold is an incredibly prolific author, whose site lists eight separate series of novels, with a total of sixty-four books between them. The series are mostly named in the format, “ FBI thriller”, which does suggest a certain production-line quality to them. I wonder… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★½ “Talk is cheap, and so is this.” Reviewing director Profitt’s filmography on the IMDb is an interesting experience. He seems to have started off in the paranormal, drifted through pseudo-reality TV with titles like Untold Undercover Police Stories, and has now found a niche in the low-budget urban gangster… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★½ “Failed to sustain my undivided attention” We begin with the usual disclaimer for films of this kind: middle-aged white guys like me are not the target audience. However, I think it’s fair to say that concepts like story-telling and character development are not limited to any particular race, colour… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★½ “Still a better movie than Wonder Woman 1984.“ This Taiwanese production takes place on an island where women have been separate from men for 23 generations, developing more or less your stereotypical Amazonian society. Men are rejected, male babies tossed out to see to sink or swim (typically the former)… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★ “Not everything is black and white…” It’s interesting to look at the film’s IMDb page, and contrast the reviews, where there’s nothing less than an 8/10, with the rating, where 73% of votes are a 1/10. One “review” was actually a rant about other reviews which appear to have… Continue reading| Girls With Guns