If you can somehow find a copy, you’ll find Don’t Cry, It’s Only Thunder to be an excellent drama that should be much better known.
Archive for September, 2016
A different side of war
Sep 30
The Antonio Margheriti actioner Code Name: Wild Geese not only wastes its cast, but also any viewer’s time.
The three big stars in Don’t Turn The Other Cheek! help to make it a fun comic spaghetti western.
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The greatest compliment you could pay an exploitation film is to say it looks like they designed the poster first and then recreated it on screen. This formulation describes Inframan perfectly. Every one of its scenes could be bullet-pointed with the word “SEE!” in front of it (“SEE! Hong Kong engulfed in flames! SEE! The evil sorceress with an army of kung fu monsters!”) It is, in many ways, a perfect film, in that it is resoundingly successful in achieving what it sets out to do—which is transport its audience into a hyperbolic comic book world and entertain them beyond their wildest dreams. Its production values are high enough that it never seems to be striving beyond its means–its art direction, set and costume design all combining to create a seamless alternate reality. As such, it never once betrays its commitment to being a nonstop celebration of color, speed, style, violence and the joyous suspension of disbelief. In short, it is cinematic escapism in its absolute purest form.
Keith Allison is the chief Bacchanologist at Teleport City.