Hell Is a City (1960)
Stanley Baker has one of his best leading roles as the tough cop who tries to make several ends meet – catch a dangerous criminal (American actor John Crawford, very effective) who’s basically his alter ego, save his childless marriage…
Sonny and Jed (1972)
Sergio Leone, the king of spaghetti westerns, would never have dreamed of making a western like “Sonny and Jed.” It is a poignant film that was considered daring at the time of its release and is now labeled by many…
The Candy Tangerine Man (1975)
A favorite of both filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his frequent cast member Samuel L. Jackson, “The Candy Tangerine Man” is simply primo exploitation. It stars the unfortunately little known John Daniels (“Black Shampoo”) as “The Baron”, a smooth as hell…
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
The famous critic Pauline Kael in an interview mentioned that the opinion about a film sometimes changes according to the time that the film is viewed. A film that might be great when seen for the first time ten years…
Alien from L.A. (1988)
A California valley girl named Wanda Saknussemm (Kathy Ireland), desperately searching for a means to make a new start and escape her nerdish tendencies, goes to Africa in search of her absentee archaeologist father following reports he may have fallen…
Logan’s Run (1976)
In the year 2274, a faction of the human race, following global war and other apparent catastrophes that have ravaged the Earth, live together in a giant domed city, completely sealed off from the outside world. Here, in this bubbled…
The Thrill Killers (1964)
Ray Dennis Steckler directs and stars as bug-eyed maniac with a buzz-cut(“I hate people!People are cheap!”)whose brother is one of three lunatics having escaped an asylum for the criminally insane. Gary Kent(..this is the third film I’ve seen of this…
The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Singing guitar-slinger Roy Orbison (as Johnny Banner) and hunky sidekick Sammy Jackson (as Steve Menlo) battle more Indians than Union soldiers as they work “undercover” for President Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. When the Civil War ends, a booty of…
Mars Attacks the World (1938)
A large ray from Mars comes crashing through to Earth and messes up the atmosphere causing major storms, which could end up killing everyone. It turns out that Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) plans to destroy the Earth so a…
An Urban Apocalypse: Movie Theatres and The Malls
Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley.The teenage mall culture which formed…
Nightmare Beach (1989)
This juicy slice of summer happens to be one of the most professional Italian movies made on US soil. You get young people partying, 80s metal non stop, wet t-shirt contests, pretty girls making a buck or two on the…
Ghostkeeper (1981)
Ghostkeeper probably has one of the best horror movie settings ever, in my opinion. It takes place in an isolated old lodge (Deer Lodge, an actual functioning resort)amid the snowy Canadian Rockies, surrounded by huge snow-covered mountains and towering evergreen…
Something Beneath (2007)
Arriving at a new hotel, Father Douglas Middleton, (Kevin Sorbo) soon meets with Khali Spence, (Natalie Brown) Aimee, (Paige Bannister) and Symes, (Gordon Tanner) and they prepare for an upcoming seminar. Beset by a series of problems, they look into…
The Last Shark (1981)
Released in the U.S. under the title, “Great White,” in 1982, the movie went as quckly as it had come into theatres at the time due to Steven Spielberg and Universal Studios having the film barred from distribution due to…
Dragon Hunt (1990)
…I don’t know where to begin. Dragon Hunt might just be the worst film in cinematic history. Even Anus Magilicutty was better than this, as it was intentionally bad. Showgirls? No, it had kitsch value and was technically a well…
Starship Invasions (1977)
I remember the ads for this thing, and I remember not wanting to see it. And I remember when I finally saw it on a Sunday afternoon broadcast how it looked like it was shot in a suburb of the…
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
I’m baffled by the dislike afforded this enjoyable sixties romp. The charge that it is less realistic than the previous films is groundless because the others weren’t the real world either. The first featured some daft business with a psychedelic…
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Similar to the under-appreciated “Alien 3″(1992), this dramatic thriller has so many ideas that to disregard it would be a waste. The Creature is sought by scientists on an expedition to the Florida Everglades, where the second film (“Revenge of…
Destination 60,000 (1957)
As directed by George Waggner, this late fifties jet pilot drama is in the vein of Howard Hawks (The Dawn Patrol, Only Angels Have Wings), and as a programmer does its job well. The casting is a bit odd, with…
World Without End (1956)
This fairly ambitious science fiction from minor studio Allied Artists used to be one of my favorite science fiction films when I was kid. This is an another one of those films I first saw on TV as kid and…