Red Sun (1971)
This Spaghetti Western with enjoyable casting (Bronson , Mifune , Delon and Andress) concerns about robbing a Japanese blade from a train crossing American West and the Japan Ambassador had for gift of emperor (the Japanese Ambassador refers to the…
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Considered the first blaxploitation film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song features Melvin Van Peebles (who also directed, wrote, produced, edited and did music for the film) as Sweetback, a Los Angeles-area “male prostitute”/”sex performer” (who only has relations with females). He…
‘Fires on the Plain’
There are horrors-of-war movies (“Come and See”), and then there are World War II horror movies (“Dead Snow”), and judging by “Fires on the Plain,” it’s not entirely clear whether Japanese splatter director Shinya Tsukamoto understands the difference. The “Tetsuo:…
Super Fly (1972)
This was Director Gordon Parks’Jr. follow-up to one of the most successful and also one of the top five highest grossing pictures of 1971,the straight in-your face blaxploitation crime-drama,”Shaft”,starring Richard Roundtree. This time around,he goes for the exploitation genre a…
Cold Sweat (1970)
This gritty, straightforward, unpretentious, Charles Bronson hostage thriller relies on realistic, white-knuckled suspense to maintain its momentum throughout its tense 94 minutes. James Mason, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland, Michel Constantin, Luigi Pistilli and Jean Topart co-star in this no-nonsense, muscular…
Red Ball Express (1952)
he setup, in case you don’t already know it, is this. The troops of the western Allies were bottle necked in Normandy, France, for the first month or so after the D-Day landings. The armies finally broke through the German…
Three the Hard Way (1974)
When diabolical racist/fascist/evil white cracker Monroe Feather (Robinson), with the help of fellow evil whitey, scientist Dr. Fortrero (Richard Angarola) invent a red serum that is harmless to whites and lethal to blacks and plan to dump it in the…
Bermuda Tentacles – DVD/Bluray Now Available
When Air Force One goes down over the Bermuda Triangle, the Navy sends its best rescue team. But in saving the president, the team awakens a creature that threatens the entire eastern seaboard. [youtube_sc url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3t5DtWKpNU”] Bermuda Tentacles was directed by…
Black Caesar (1973)
When Edward G. Robinson filed “Little Caesar” in 1933, he could never have imagined that fifty-two years later it would be reconfigured as Blaxploitation and become a cult classic in its own right. Williamson stars as a former shoeshine boy…
The Nasty Rabbit (1964)
The films produced by Arch Hall Sr. and starring Arch Hall Jr. are overall an entertaining lot, considering the low budgets. They made a juvenile delinquent film (the Choppers), a horror comedy (Eegah), a rock and roll film in the…
Schlock (1973)
SCHLOCK is ridiculous, offensive, ignorant, and childish. It’s also really funny, and it’s now available on DVD with, yes, a great commentary track that you may have to listen to more than once; because in their enthusiastic recollections of making…
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966)
Rat Pfink A Boo Boo is a hard title to review properly. It’s a film I give one star in terms of actual filmmaking, whether it be acting, writing, editing or even making any coherent sense. But I give it…
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
First off, I saw the remake first and only after I found that there is an original. The remake is mediocre. The original is nothing special either, but at least it’s better than the remake. For anyone who have seen…
H.B.Halicki
“H.B. “TOBY”‘ HALICKIlived the American dream. At 15 he left his home in Dunkirk, New York and moved to California. He started working pumping gas and within two years owned his own body shop. He enrolled in real estate classes…
Ed Wood, B-Movie King, Gets a Film Retrospective
Twenty years ago, Johnny Depp played the title B-movie director in Tim Burton’s frisky biopic “Ed Wood.” The film introduced the eccentric Wood, then mostly known to fans of cult cinema, to a mainstream audience and renewed interest in his…
“Jaws” still alive on Martha’s Vineyard
Forty years ago, Edgartown Harbor on Martha’s Vineyard, looked a little different than it does today. The tranquil summer tourist magnet was transformed into Amity Island, the famous town from “Jaws.” Roy Scheider, left, and Richard Dreyfuss are shown…
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
To this day my friend and I still refer to the gremiln like he is real. When something goes wrong with my computer, it is the gremlin, when my keys are misplaced and then show up in a spot that…
Evil Toons (1992)
Four women are staying the weekend in a spooky house they’ve been hired to clean, but before long one of them has been possessed by a demon unwittingly brought to life and embarks on a murderous rampage. I really like…
Women’s Prison Movies
Babes behaving badly. Chicks in chains. Sweeties in the slammer. As a rule, movies about women in prison have been far from subtle. In fact, they’re part of what cinema buffs would call the exploitation genre. Conceived by men, produced…
Hold On! (1966)
Somebody, somewhere, in 1966, got the idea to make a movie featuring the English rock-n-roll band Herman’s Hermits. That somebody should be interrogated at length. This movie was obviously a crass attempt to cash in on the evolving music phenomena…