Bloodsport (1988)
In this early starring vehicle, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays the real-life Frank W. Dux (as in, “Put up your Dux!”). Frank’s an American soldier who goes A.W.O.L. in order to travel to Hong Kong and participate in the Kumite, a…
The White Buffalo (1977)
I admire this odd, surreal, western monster movie. It has elements of Moby Dick more than Jaws or anything else, with its various characters pushed onward by fate, following nightmares and omens to their respective destinies, which is what attracted…
They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Nine meteorites land in perfect formation in a field in Sussex, and in a plot device that bares no resemblance to Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers, aliens take over the bodies of some scientists and some locals and start building a…
The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
THE MUMMY’S SHROUD plays it downright serious, to some extend with success, on other levels a bit of a failure. Let’s start with a few negative points first. As mentioned in other user-comments, the prologue knows a poorly staged and…
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is sentenced to the guillotine but he succeeds to escape facilitated by the hunchback Karl Immelmann (Michael Gwynn) to Carlsbruck in Germany adopting the alias Doctor Victor Stein. Three years later, he is a successful…
Defining Leadership: Growing A Voice For Independent Theatres
I have for a long time thought the independent theatres needed their own organization. With dynamics of NATO becoming problematic because of the behavior from AMC and the rise of the Global Cinema Federation, the voice of the independent have…
Ghost House – Review
A young couple go on an adventurous vacation to Thailand and find themselves haunted by angry spirits after naively disrespecting a Ghost House. Ghost House is an entertaining horror film that provides a fun story, likeable characters, terrifying creatures, and the…
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Ah, how the internet ‘creates’ new mythology. ‘Shadow of the Cat’ prophetically opens with a quote from Poe’s The Raven, and for most of its running time trots out a parade of mystery movie clichés with wildly uneven results. The…
Subspecies (1991)
To start off with I had a great back story. Two Vampire Brothers one, genuinely good, born of a Mortal woman(Stephan), and the Vampire king and the other, truly Evil, born of a evil witch and the vampire king(Radu). *one…
Boss (1975)
Boss (Fred Williamson) and Amos (D’Urville Martin) are bounty hunters, riding into the city of San Miguel to collect a reward when they find there’s no sheriff. Boss nominates himself the new sheriff, and the reluctant mayor (who is working…
Eaten Alive (1976)
Delirious, surreal, and savage, Tobe Hooper’s follow-up to his landmark debut (“Chainsaw” for those not in the know), is one of a kind while bearing the same signature stamp he left with his predecessor. A sheer unrelenting onslaught of pure…
Blue Demon y Zovek en La invasión de los muertos (1973)
It’s 1972, This is the Mexican version of “The night of the living dead” Professor Zovek was a real national hero. He was an authentic athlete, able to swim, jump the boxer’s rope and perform sit-ups without stopping for more…
RoboGeisha (2009)
Ah, geisha. Beautiful. Alluring. Mysterious. Robotic. Yoshie is the archetypal younger sister, overshadowed in all ways by her elder sibling. Sis is confident. Yoshie is not. Sis is climbing through the ranks of a local geisha house. Yoshie scrubs the…
99 Women (1969)
The newest batch of detainees arrives at a remote women’s prison. The fortress-like prison is ruled with an iron hand by Thelma Diaz (Mercedes McCambridge), a woman who has no qualms against death or torture. But when a new state…
Ashanti (1979)
Ashanti is a very 70s sort of film (1979, to be precise). It reminded me of The Wild Geese in a way (Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Roger Moore on a mission in Africa). It’s a very good film too,…
The Final Comedown (1972)
This brilliant and insightful film stars Billy Dee as a young college age man who is hell-bent on making changes to this racist and hypocritical system we call America .As the reluctant leader of a courageous band of young Black…
Storm Warning (2007)
The lawyer Rob (Robert Taylor) and his French wife Pia (Nadia Farès) rent a small motor boat to spend the day fishing at the sea. In the end of the day, Rob decides to steer the boat through marsh islands…
The Hot Box (1972)
In the jungles of South America. Lynn, Bunny, Ellie and Sue are American nurses working at a hospital clinic in the Latin-American republic of San Rosario. They are kidnapped by some bandits, who were hired by Flavio the leader of…
The Big Gundown (1966)
This film is often referred to as “the best non-Leone spaghetti western.” That may very well be true. For me, it’s difficult to decide because there are a couple of others that I like about as much as this one….
Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! (1967)
The Stranger (Tomas Milian) arrives in the town known by the local Indian tribes as “The Unhappy Place” to see the bodies of his recent partners in crime hanging in front of him. Flashbacks have already revealed that he had…