At this point, the fourth Universal Mummy movie, the scripts are something of a "variation on a theme," this one with a comic side-kick, that one with a heroic dog, another with the reincarnated princess dying, but the basic template stays the same. Watching them all back-to-back is more than a literal experience of deja vu, especially since many of them reuse footage from previous films.
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The Mummy's Tomb 1942
This, the third Universal Mummy movie, is only 61 minutes long. Yet more than 10 minutes of that runtime is re-used footage from The Mummy's Hand in a lengthy recap. Take that out and you'd have a brief TV episode, something one might imagine as NBC Tuesday Mummy Theatre, with the main role going to whomever is silently dragging his leg around as the mummy (Karloff, only briefly in mummy linen; Tom Tyler; Lon Chaney, Jr.). Could easily be interrupted a few times by ads for arthritis meds.
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Zig Zag 2002
When I taught film criticism, I often asked students both to read reviews and to become familiar with who wrote them. That way, one could get familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the reviewers and better understand WHY they would critique a film one way or another. All criticism is, after all, subjective.
Which brings me to "Zig Zag." There are a lot of negative reviews here on Letterboxd, and rightly so. This is an uneven film, despite the quality of…
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Cloak and Dagger 1946
Set aside for a moment the idea that just because he looks like Gary Cooper, a nuclear scientist could agree to become a spy and go straight to work without orientation or training or advice. Willing suspension of disbelief in place, Fritz Lang gives us a taut, satisfying spy thriller almost on a par with "Ministry of Fear" (1944) and grittier than most of Hitcock's spy stuff.
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