The Folly Of Luxury Cinemas
I have to first apologize, for the past two weeks I have been off gallivanting around rural Indiana making a World War 2 movie. It was an all consuming experience so I had no time to really share some of…
Insectula! (2015)
Insectula parodies and pay homage to many B and Z science fiction films, and it pays off. This is surprisingly well done for a low budget film made independently over many years. Does this mean it is Citizen Kane? No….
Infra-Man (1975)
Basically, Infra-Man is every Ultraman/Power Rangers cliché ever imagined rolled into a single movie. A heroic young fellow who’s part of a barely explained government agency (that’s clearly hi-tech, since everyone wears clothes made out of tin foil) volunteers to…
The Terrornauts (1967)
The Terrornauts which looks like it was shot on a budget for a real and not Walt Disney high school musical, is one of the quirkiest science fiction films ever made. That’s in fact part of its charm, a Star…
Ms .45 (1981)
Thana (not Hannah as one might mistake to hear) hasn’t had a good lot in life. She doesn’t have really any family or friends, she works for pittance as a clothing workshop, and can’t speak as a mute. She’s also…
Switchblade Sisters (1975)
Jack Hill’s ‘Switchblade Sisters’ is a wild ride that will have you hooked from the get go! It’s everything I hoped Ted V. Mikels disappointing ‘The Doll Squad’ was going to be – a trashy, campy slice of 1970s exploitation…
The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
THE POM POM GIRLS was a huge sleeper hit in it’s day and it’s easy to see why. Thousands of stoned kids across the land with beer in hand at the drive-in, watching this documentary-like fun fest on being a…
Catastrophe (1977)
CATASTROPHE is one of those clip compilation documentaries that gather together shocking footage, add in a famous narrator, and let rip. The previous one I saw was DAYS OF FURY, starring Vincent Price, and CATASTROPHE is much the same. This…
Code Name: Jaguar (1965)
“Code Name: Jaguar” (1965) is a good euro-spy picture, smoothly done, in good color and widescreen, well-paced, amusing at times, well-acted, and with some nice set pieces and production values. The dialog in this film is sharp and witty, adding…
Black Shampoo (1976)
“Black Shampoo” is one of the lousiest blacksploitation films I’ve seen, and if you’re familiar with the genre, you know thats saying a lot. In terms of technical quality, this makes “Dolemite” look like “Do the Right Thing”. Fortunately, its…
Picasso Trigger (1988)
Picasso Trigger, the third film in Andy Sidaris’s Malibu Express series, is par for the course in terms of nudity and violence, with the obligatory big breasted babes disrobing at regular intervals to get fruity with the musclebound hunks, and…