The Phantom Empire (1988)
Fred Olen Ray is a cool dude. He’s made over 100 movies, but this was made somewhat early on in his career. This film is a throwback to 1950’s Z-grade monster cheapies, with a bit of 1930’s serials thrown in…
Tough Guy: The Bob Probert Story
On July 5, 2010, legendary NHL tough guy Bob Probert collapsed on his boat on Lake St. Clair, near Windsor and died of a heart attack. He was only 45 years old. Bob was on his third glass of coke…
Blitzkrieg Bop
I like allegory. I think it is one of the best ways to drive home a point and provide almost instant understanding of a situation or issues. One of the things I find is that often this industry backs away…
The Vengeance of She (1968)
The Vengeance of She is oddly enjoyable if totally trashy. The script goes in a vaguely similar line to the original 1965 She. It has minimal characterisation, has no inner continuity and the actions and deeds of some of the…
Hell’s Angels ’69 (1969)
This movie is about two dudes that most likely hung out with real Hell’s Angels after they became popular and sold-out in the late 60’s and came up with a “perfect heist” type movie using the Angels as props for…
Warriors of the Apocalypse (1985)
In this telling of the age-old tale, we have a bunch of survivors slowly trudging through the wasteland, barely scraping by on food and water. They each have their own specific label (A smart old guy, a cool dude with…
Mama’s Dirty Girls (1974)
Mama’s Dirty Girls is a gritty little seventies thriller, which reminded me a lot of 1974’s other mother and daughter seducing men flick, Big Bad Mama; only with less humour. Typically, the production values are not very good and the…
SheBorg (2016)
It’s been a while that i’ve been this hyped for a movie to be released, even pre-ordered the dvd – a folly i usually stay away from. all starts promising, with a psyched-out scene in a spaceship. there are whacky…
Silk (1986)
This is a low-budget effort about a maverick female cop who single-handedly fights crime and corruption, playing by her own rules (a la Dirty Harry). Set in Honolulu, the film opens with Silk thwarting a robbery with her trusty handgun,…
Death Run (1987)
The plot of Death Run centers around Paul (Rob Bartlett) and his girlfriend Jenny (Wendy Parsons), who live in the midst of a nuclear war and are put in a cryogenic sleep so they can survive the oncoming apocalypse. They…
Cyborg Cop (1993)
Looking at the title I thought that it would be okay. Sadly it failed a bit and the only reason is that it looks cheaply done and the effects used, if we can say effects, are laughable. The cyborg itself…
The Amazons (1973)
What can one expect of a film about raving amazons from 1973? I expected something really terrible but it wasn’t at all as bad as I expected. The basic story of a competition between two female leaders is kind of…
American Commandos (1985)
The ever enjoyable to watch Chris Mitchum headlines in this rather confused Indonesian outing which appears to have at least initially the exact same plot as Arizal’s absolute classic, Final Score (again starring Mitchum). But wait……whilst the first half of…
Equalizer 2000 (1987)
B movie perennial Richard Norton (“Force: Five”) stars as a hero named Slade in this little epic, just one of many grungy post-apocalypse features to pattern itself after “Mad Max” and “The Road Warrior”. Slade is out to get revenge…
Empire of Ash (1988)
Empire of has a lot going for it at first glance. Plenty of action, lots of guns, lots of armour clad vehicles, topless girls, rock soundtrack and plenty of extras. The direction is decent for the most part too in…
The Violent Breed (1984)
On a mission in Vietnam Kirk, Mike and Polo are the only survivors of their platoon who rescue a bunch of children, but Polo stays behind when they get to their boat and tells them to leave. Polo happens to…
The Glass Key (1942)
This is one of a handful of films I kept giving chances to like and finally did on the third viewing. Maybe I expected too much on the first viewing, when I first began to appreciate film noir and had…
Spree (1979)
Spree is one of those movies that has fallen through the cracks and landed in cinematic oblivion. The only people who seem to remember Spree are those who found it distasteful or exploitative. The reason for Spree’s surprising inability to…
Yes There Are Showmen…..
Do I believe in movie going? Hell yes, I believe in it deeply. I believe that a base human need is to collectively experience things. I know that humans really want to be with other humans and that movie going…
Al Capone (1959)
Many actors have portrayed Capone over the years. It’s virtually a “cottage industry,” guaranteeing that yet another Capone flick will hit the screens before the collective audience has quite recovered from its yawn at the last one. And yet, for…