Street Mobster (1972)
This has a similar look to some of the early 70s New York gangster and Blaxploitation flicks, only with an eye for the big moody shadows that wouldn’t be out of place in a Carol Reed movie. The acting is…
Hands of Steel (1986)
Sinister industrialist Francis Turner, played by John Saxon, creates a cyborg known as Paco Queruak (Daniel Greene) who has been programmed to terminate the leader of an ecological faction that stands in the way of the dystopian country in which…
Bushido Blade
Bushido Blade is a film that kind of got lost with all the hoopla surrounding the Shogun TV mini-series. Commodore Perry’s opening of Japan deserved a better treatment than what it got here. No reflection on the cast, they certainly…
Suspiria (1977)
Suspiria(1977) is given its cult status in the USA partialy due to the extreme usage of colors. The colors in Suspiria(1977) gives it an artful flavor that makes the movie beautiful to watch. Argento uses the colors of blue, green,…
Battle Beyond the Stars
This film is not cheese. `Flash Gordon’ was cheese (and very tasty cheese, too). This film is a kind of imitation cheese. It’s made from the same substance that goes into those `cheese’ flavoured snacks that have never so much…
Cult Movies’ e-books
In the early 1990s, before information about offbeat movies was available at the click of a mouse, budding film nuts like myself had to find out about oddities and rarities any way we could. Nestled among the Leonard Maltin guides,…
Curse of the Fly (1965)
One of the best horror movies of the 50s is without a doubt the 1958 version of “The Fly”, the story of a scientist who gets fused with a common fly when a experiment goes awfully wrong. Directed by Kurt…
Banana Joe (1982)
Banana Joe(Bud Spencer) is a corpulent and kind illiterate living on a tropical island in the Caribe. He trades bananas when a mobster named Torsillo wishes to take his commerce. Then , for first time in his existence, he goes…
The Challenge (1982)
Rick Murphy, an amateur American boxer (Scott Glenn) becomes involved in a feud between two Japanese brothers, Yoshida (Toshiro Mifune) and his younger brother Hideo, which concerns the possession of a pair of swords known as The Equals passed down…
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
William Castle usually marketed his movies with gimmicks, and for MR. SARDONICUS the gimmick was “the punishment poll.” When the film played in theatrical release, audience members were issued a voting card, and near the movie’s conclusion Castle himself appeared…
Sacramento’s last outdoor movie theater keeps on drivin’
On any given Friday or Saturday night— or maybe even a Tuesday evening— drivers crossing over Highway 50 via the Bradshaw Road exit are likely to see lines of cars, all bound for the West Wind Sacramento 6 drive-in theater—the…
Review – Live Nude Girls
Plot: Live Nude Girls is a feature film comedy set in a 1980’s Los Angeles strip club. The story of Shane (Mike Hatton), an average guy from Chicago who inherits a gentleman’s club from his estranged uncle. Shane leaves…