Universal Soldier
Universal Soldier might be dumb and derivative but I couldn’t care less, it is also one of the most entertaining action films to be released in the 1990s and provided signature roles for two of my favourite trash icons, Jean-Claude…
Masters Of The Universe
Just as some movies that should be great turn out to be awful, some movies that should be awful turn out to be great – Masters of the Universe. Unfortunately, for a film that’s based on a cartoon that today’s…
Showdown in Little Tokyo
In the area of town known as Little Tokyo, crime is orchestrated by the head of the Yakuza, Funekei Yoshida, the cruel and unstoppable boss. When two police officers find themselves with Yoshida as their common enemy, they reluctantly join…
Shaking With The Rock
The big one hit AT&T Park Monday morning.Or at least that’s what it may have looked like to casual passersby as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was in town filming scenes for an upcoming big-budget earthquake movie, “San Andreas.” Twitter user…
Star Wars Leaks
I’m going to keep this vague. I have no interest in spoiling Star Wars Episode VII, although I’m sure some people will find any information about the film’s plot to be spoilery. If you’re a spoilerphobe or want to go into Star Wars Episode…
What They Say
Occasionally a film comes along that is evident the story derived and evolved from something deep inside the filmmakers heart and mind. The amount of passion and hard work poured into it makes for an awarding winning film. What They…
Hillbilly Horror Show
Four shorts from up and coming filmmakers in an hour show and I don’t know if it’s possible for the Hillbilly Horror Show to be more fun. The hillbilly hosts Bo (Bo Keister), Cephus (Scott Geiter) provide some slack jaw…
Tom Sullivan–Master of “Evil Dead” Low-Budget Effects–Honored
Special-effects wizard Tom Sullivan doesn’t need anyone to tell him how lucky he was in meeting—and joining forces with—star director Sam Raimi in mid-70s Michigan. “I feel like I used up all my good luck on Evil Dead,” said Sullivan to…
Red Skull Returns
While most Marvel movie fans’ thoughts are leaning towards outer space ahead of next week’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige dropped some intriguing statements about the future of two Earth-bound villains previously thought dead or imaginary….
Winning Back Movie Customers
This has been a tough summer for the movies. Not only are fewer Americans going to the movies, but many families feel they have been priced out of the theater. “The cost definitely has a lot to do with it,”…
The Protector 2
When we last saw Kham (Tony Jaa), he had been successfully reunited with his beloved “brother” — a baby elephant named Khon. When the elephant was kidnapped, Kham went on a rampage through Sydney in a quest to get it…
Johnny Mnemonic
Johnny Mnemonic could have been a wonderful movie, had William Gibson not strayed so far from his original story when writing the screenplay. Having painter Robert Longo direct the movie, the first and to this date only full length feature…
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
The legendary, hard-bodied Scream Queen, Linnea Quigley stars in this sleazy B-movie horror-comedy that truly delivers all the sexy stripping and chainsaw wielding glory! Directed by Fred Olen Ray, this dime-store classic is a tribute to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre…
The Quest to Make a Studio-Quality Star Trek Movie on a Kickstarter Budget
The next Star Trek film is coming sooner than you think. It’s scheduled to wrap production in the fall, at which point it will be edited into a 90-minute feature starring well-known actors and boasting a deep bench of design…
The Creeps (1997)
A monster movie, but with little people. The front cover pretty much sums it up … dwarf versions of the classic Universal horror monsters groping a half-naked busty young woman (who, incidentally, doesn’t appear in the movie). Tasteless? Well, that…
The Purge: Anarchy
Audiences had other ideas. The film, which cost just £1.5million to make, went on to take more than £50million at the box office. Clearly this wasn’t just another shocker about a posh family home being besieged by mask-wearing psychos.It seemed…
The Punisher (1989)
This really is a good movie, but Dolph Lundgren’s portrayal of the Punisher isn’t at all like the comics. One could point that out as the director’s fault, so blame isn’t very placable at all. The problem is that Castle…
Fangs of the Wild (1954)
I first thought it was a sort of oater, family western, shot in a superb setting, the Rocky Mountains. A little boy lives here with his father. A little boy who is witness of a murder committed by a man…
TerrorVision (1986)
TERRORVISION is a very peculiar horror-comedy that has the word “camp” labeled all over it. This fairy tale tells about a sloppy alien puppet monster who, presumably by accident, enters Planet Earth via a TV satellite dish. This enormous monster…
The Anomaly
Noel Clarke is more Austin Powers than Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Anomaly, hilariously naff science-fiction mularkey that appears to have been cobbled together like Frankenstein’s monster from the discarded body parts of Total Recall, The Matrix, Source Code and countless…