Fire and Ice (1983)
Forget “Wizards”, this is the best Ralph Bakshi ever has given! Using Frank Frazetta’s characters and art, he created this beautiful and stunning epic that has more life and interest than any other movie he has done. Wheras “Wizards” just…
Rebuilding Cinema
The impact of “Tenet” had the effective impact of slowing releasing air from an over-inflated balloon. Rumors abounded that on Saturday members of a major studio’s theatrical booking department received notice that they soon would be laid off. It is…
The Pusher (1960)
New York City, circa 1958; a heroin kingpin sets up shop, and sets himself up in a posh penthouse apartment on Riverside Drive. His customers are mostly kids, many of them Puerto Rican immigrants looking to find their place in…
The Void (2016)
A local sheriff brings the victim of a mysterious attack to a rundown hospital, where sinister events ensue during a night of blood and gore … Ambitious siege horror with all sorts of influences. After a disturbing opening scene, we…
War of the Zombies (1964)
When Dalmatia’s tribute to Rome is hijacked and the legion guarding it massacred, the Senate sends a centurion (Ettore Manni) to find out what happened. Upon arriving in the distant province, he’s immediately thrust into a hotbed of political intrigue…
House of Wax (1953)
‘House Of Wax’ is an important movie in Vincent Price’s career, because it was his first legitimate horror film, after thirty something pictures in a variety of genres. This really is where the Price persona fans know and love began….
The Dark (1979)
A former convict turned reporter (William Devane) sees that his daughter has been brutally mutilated so he sets out to try and find the killer as does a detective (Richard Jaeckel) working the case. It turns out that a space…
Kill, Granny, Kill! (2014)
Mildred (Donna Swenson) is a nice old lady who has a few skeletons in her closet, quite literally. She is very religious but seems to overlook the commandment “thou shalt not kill,” and I’m not too sure that human flesh…
The 27th Day (1957)
THE 27th DAY replaces the cliched threat of aliens blasting us lasers with the chilling fact that a handful of earth people have the power to destroy the world. Of course, one is an upright American citizen, the ohter is…
Atomic Shark (2016)
When a lifeguard catches wind of a dangerous anomaly off the coast of San Diego, she commissions a band of unlikely heroes to assist her on a suicide mission to save the west coast from total destruction.I dont even know…
Hapkido (1972)
Raymond Chow produced “Lady Kung-Fu,” a no-holds-barred martial arts action flick from the early 1970s directed by Feng Huang, and contains shades of nearly every Bruce Lee movie from that time. When I looked at it last night, I saw…
Deadly China Doll (1973)
This is an early Angela Mao flick that might be the first that wasn’t made by Golden Harvest. The quality of this movie is several notches below that of ones made by Golden Harvest. First it’s obviously made in the…
The Real Bruce Lee (1977)
This movie has all the looks of a quickie movie that was made to capitalize on the death of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong in 1973. I am sure there were many , many movies like this made back then….
Captain China (1950)
“Captain China” (1950) made by Lewis R. Foster was to me in a polluted world enough since then an example of a B picture where a character of a navigator inside a cargo fighting a typhoon gave me a lesson…
Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space (1965)
As earth has become more uninhabitable a desperation journey to a new planet that is going to take years to complete goes awry when the ship’s captain becomes completely unreasonable. The crew is made up of husbands, wives, and children,…
Last of the Wild Horses (1948)
Yes, near the end of this film all the action will shift from the plains, to the courtroom as the hero of the movie is put on trial. Kind of interesting, though not sure a trial of this type would…
The Steel Helmet (1951)
You’ve got to hand it to Fuller— by going to low-budget Lippert Pictures he got basically the unglamorous result he wanted. In the process, however, he had to sacrifice certain production values, but what he got in return was an…
The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
Something just that little bit different here and something really rather good. The slightly odd or seeming unlikely happenings, including the casting of Glynis Johns all make sense by the end, at least as far as I am concerned. Great…
The Long Rope (1961)
Jonas Stone (Hugh Marlowe), a federal circuit judge in the early days of the West, comes to the frontier town of Tularosa to try a Mexican named Manuel Alvarez (John Alonzo) for murder. The town has never had an official…
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
The members of the Count Dracula Society were on to something when they voted BLACULA the scariest (theatrical) film of 1972 (THE NIGHT STALKER, scripted by Richard Matheson, came creeping across tv screens the same year, and rivaled BLACULA for…