Shameless Self Expression

AKA “The Face of Eve” A plane crashes somewhere in the Amazon jungle, emerging is adventurer Robert Walker Jr., looking for a lost Incan treasure. Instead he happens upon the stunning Eve (Celeste Yarnall), who has lived in the jungle since she was a little girl. It just so happens that a lot of people are looking for Eve, including her grandfather Colonel Stuart (Christopher Lee), and even some bloodthirsty tribal natives. Fred Clark plays a scheming night club owner/promoter, and Herbert Lom plays the clearly shady Diego, whilst Jose Maria Caffarel plays a local guide.   I’m not really a jungle adventure guy, but this 1968 film from co-directors Robert Lynn (the rather solid true story “Dr. Crippen” ) and Jeremy Summers ( “Five Golden Dragons” ) is well-mounted and one of the more enjoyable ones. In fact, there’s really only two flaws here. The first is a silly subplot involving Rosenda Monteros, a very clearly and visibly Mexican actress supposedly pretending to be Eve, th...

Two Brooklyn plumbers – and brothers – named Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) attempt to rescue a palaeontology student named Daisy (Samantha) kidnapped by goons and taken to another dimension. Said dimension is home to dinosaurs that escaped their fate on earth 65 million years ago and have evolved into humanoids. They are led by King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) who believes Daisy is some kind of princess and a descendant of the dinosaurs on Dinohattan. Fisher Stevens and Richard Edson play Koopa’s idiot cousins/henchmen Iggy and Spike – The Goombas. Fiona Shaw plays Koopa’s moll, whilst a predominantly unrecognisable Lance Henriksen plays Daisy’s father Bowser, former king of Dinohattan.   Notorious 1993 film adaptation of the popular Nintendo video game franchise that started with “Donkey Kong” . I was never a Nintendo guy. My only first-hand experience with the franchise was “Donkey Kong” on one of those Game & Watch things as a kid. I was a Commodore 64 guy, s...