Salma Hayek Comes Home:Everly
“Everly” is the sort of gonzo guns and Ginsu knives thriller Tarantino made back before he discovered the joys of bloat. It’s the sort of movie where the titular heroine (Salma Hayek) takes bullets and stabbings and keeps coming…
Under the Skin
Delving into the realm of existential science-fiction, director Jonathan Glazer (“Sexy Beast,” “Birth”) examines what it means to be human. Accompanied by a shadowy, silent motorcyclist, there’s an expressionless, extraterrestrial stalker (Scarlett Johansson) on a mission. Driving a white cargo van, this…
Hardbodies (1984)
Hardbodies, which was released in the summer of ’84, came out around the same time as Ghostbusters and is similar with the latter in the respect that they are both classic films of their respective genres. This movie excels on…
Future War (1997)
Daniel Bernhardt (The guy who starred in Bloodsport II) stars as a slave from a different planet who escapes cyborgs and dinosaurs in a future where Earth is heaven to the alien humans who ditch the slave planet run by…
H.O.T.S. (1979)
The mistreated and downtrodden college girls at FU University(..ha ha), picked on by the rich gals at the local sorority, decide to form their own little club, repairing a bedraggled and unkempt house, naming themselves H.O.T.S.(each letter named after the…
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
When an atomic-powered submarine runs afoul of something most bizarre on their radar, its Commander Pete Matthews decides not to risk the $ 55 million dollar naval submarine he commands and tries to head out of the area but suddenly…
Nightmare City (1980)
Perfecticality would ruin most Italian exploitation films. Zombie ones in particular. Such is the case of the title I know this film best by, and my favorite of the titles, “City Of The Walking Dead.” A surprising tame offering from…
The Omega Man (1971)
This action packed and thought-provoking sci-fi drama has been one of my personal favorites for over 30 years. Charlton Heston found his definitive role here, as the last man on earth, a scientist fighting a single handed battle against hundreds…
Humongous (1982)
This Canadian slasher is definitely one of the better slashers of the 1980s and is unjustifiably panned by everyone. When HUMONGOUS was released the biggest criticism against it was how predictable or derivative it was and it was dismissed as…
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
The studios were scratching their heads during those years trying to come up with which creature should be enlarged and terrorize everyone and you have to give them credit for thinking of mollusks and then making them scary looking. Kudos…
The Phantom Planet (1961)
One of the first revelations that this was going to be a fun camp film was it’s setting in the way distant future of 1980, replete with space age jargon and a goal to find out what’s been happening to…
First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
The amazing imaginative fiction author Stanislaw Lem wrote this visually stunning East German space exploration film with a dated but still thoughtful message. The Sets of Der Schweigende Stern are detailed and beautiful – giving the film an amazingly alien…
The Dark Night Of Joel Goodson: A Reflection on Risky Business
Now when I was a young boy, at the age of five My mother said I was, gonna be the greatest man alive But now I’m a man, way past 21 I had lot’s of fun I’m a man “Muddy…
Red Planet Mars (1952)
Expect a real treat from one of the most intelligent sci-fi films of the 1950s — although it gets little credit (largely because some people are uncomfortable with the overt Christian message). But first a word of warning: in this…
Jungle Holocaust (1977)
Director Ruggero Deodato carried on the tradition of the Italian cannibal subgenre by contributing arguably the best entries in the genre, JUNGLE HOLOCAUST and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST. While CANNIBAL dealt with a very human threat in a cannibal tribe, JUNGLE is…
Andy Devine
Who would have thought on November 16,1906, when Amy Devine, Mae, her stepdaughter, and Tom, Jr., her son, stepped from the train in Kingman, that the year old boy she was carrying in her arms would turn out to be…
Bikini Hotel (1997)
There’s not much to say about this movie….really, there isn’t. J.J. North plays a young woman who inherits an old, broken down hotel from her father. She’s at a loss for ideas on how to keep the place out of…
Unknown World (1951)
This could have been another cheesy 1950’s outer space sci-fi flick, but the participants were going in the opposite direction. So instead, this is a cheesy 1950’s subterranean film, starring an underground submarine called a cyclotram. It’s mission is to…
The Punisher (1989)
Back in the late 1980s, the Australia R rating used to mean something. Where action films were concerned, it often meant quality, or at least that the director and studio were going out of their way to please the hardcore…
Agent Red (2000)
A Marine is sent on a mission to supervise in a Navy secret mission on a submarine. The mission is led by his ex-fiancé. Soon once the sub is in route it is taken over by Russians on board. The…