With its rating bumped up from GP (a.k.a. PG) to R in recent years, Blood And Lace may appear to be juicy horror in this day and age, but it actually runs both hot and cold.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
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With its rating bumped up from GP (a.k.a. PG) to R in recent years, Blood And Lace may appear to be juicy horror in this day and age, but it actually runs both hot and cold.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Despite the presence of Rutger Hauer, RPG (a.k.a. REAL PLAYING GAME) is still a science fiction film from Portugal that only succeeds in explaining why you’ve probably never seen a Portuguese movie before in your life.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Wilder napalm (bomb)
Aug 13
Perhaps Gene Wilder deciding to take on the herculean task of commanding four big roles with The World’s Greatest Lover – actor, writer, director, and producer – may explain why the end results are kind of messy and without that many laughs.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Religious supposed do-gooders doing no good when it comes to movies is the focus of Cleanflix, an occasionally uneven but never boring documentary.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
What if you suddenly found yourself the last person on Earth, except for your arch rival? The French movie 2 Alone In Paris (a.k.a. SEULS TWO) takes this premise, and gives it an amusing comic spin.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Hooooboy, this hasn’t aged well, to put it mildly… Popi may be the most offensive G-rated movie of all time, more offensive than when five years later, its star (R.I.P., Alan Arkin) became an R-rated Bean.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
If you can look past some dopey scripting and less than stellar acting, Recoil delivers everything you want from a PM Entertainment actioner.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
A drama in dire straits
Jun 24
The real-life tale told in Money For Nothing proves that sometimes truth can be made to be dumber than fiction.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Just what the doctor ordered – Across 110th Street is a tough, gritty, and mean crime drama from the 1970s that puts most modern efforts of the same genre to shame.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
An Unexpected Theme Emerges
May 31
I didn’t plan this, but this update turns out to be heavily freighted with movies depicting real (or at least “real”) people in fairly fanciful ways, including a variety of kung fu founding fathers and a Catholic priest who isn’t nearly as crazy in the filmmakers’ telling as he was in actuality:
The Boxer from Shantung (1972), in which the 1930’s Warner Brothers gangster formula gets the Shaw Brothers chopsocky treatment…
Crash and Burn (1990), in which a post-apocalyptic slasher runs afoul of a Final Couple with a weapon that Laurie Strode sure would have found handy against Michael Myers…
The Day Time Ended (1979), in which that phrase doesn’t mean at all what you’d naturally expect it to…
Flesh and Fantasy (1943), in which there may or may not be such a thing as Destiny, and you may find it challenging to give a damn one way or the other…
Heroes Two (1974), which inaugurates a long-running cycle of Shaw Brothers kung fu movies concerning the Shaolin Temple and its disciples…
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977), in which William Shatner plays a cowboy veterinarian facing an enemy even more terrifying than his toupe…
and…
The Pope’s Exorcist (2023), in which I learn to my astonished delight that they occasionally do make them like they used to after all!
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.