It may be a bit of an oldie, but Ring Of Bright Water still has the power to charm and entertain in this modern age.Archive for category New Reviews
Rings true
Jul 8
It may be a bit of an oldie, but Ring Of Bright Water still has the power to charm and entertain in this modern age.
Overall, Lots to Catch Up On
Jun 24
Between my own dereliction of duty and the mysterious recent website outages, I’ve let quite a few updates slip by without announcing them here. Here’s what you missed if you’ve been relying on the Cabal site to keep track of 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting…
Posted in February:
Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994), which bizarrely disguises an extended meditation on redemption, forgiveness, and Divine will as a direct-to-video exploitation movie about a runaway devil-girl wreaking vigilante justice on a corrupt city of the mortal world…
Endgame (1983), which is sort of like a trashy, precognitive hybrid of Children of Men and The Running Man…
and…
Nosferatu (2024), in which Robert Eggers creates the best Dracula movie in years by running away from Dracula not quite as fast as his legs could have carried him.
I also rewrote one of my old reviews so extensively that it became two mostly new ones:
Gamera (1965), in which Daiei confront Toho with Godzilla’s only serious competition by being as unlike Godzilla as the kaiju eiga formula will permit…
Gammera the Invincible (1966), in which American International Pictures are having none of that, and do their damnedest to stuff the big, weird turtle back into the box.
Posted in April:
The College Girl Murders (1967), in which not even the producers at Rialto Film can take their years-long Edgar Wallace Mysteries project altogether seriously anymore…
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971), in which one of the Deep South’s loonier preachers warns us all against the coming Cuban conquest…
Killer Workout (1987), which takes “no pain, no gain” to a whole new level…
Night of the Comet (1984), in which the comet that killed the dinosaurs returns to mop up their ecological successors…
and…
Sheba, Baby (1975), in which no one wants to see William Girdler, of all people, behave himself.
Posted in May:
Come Drink with Me (1966), in which King Hu reinvents wuxia for what was then the modern age…
Companion (2025), in which being a selfish, exploitative dick toward your girlfriend is still a bad idea even if she’s a robot…
Halloween Ends (2022), in which we should be so lucky…
Mickey 17 (2025), which teaches us that in space, no one can hear you complain about how much your job sucks…
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Sinners (2025), in which blues lovers battle vampires in the Jim Crow South.
And posted just yesterday:
The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978), in which Joseph Barbera (yes, that Joseph Barbera!) makes an animal-attack disaster flick for ABC’s “Movie of the Week”…
The Crater Lake Monster (1977), in which a pair of redneck imbeciles won’t stop inadvertently feeding tourists to a resurrected plesiosaur…
Fear No Evil (1969), in which a psychiatrist who dabbles in the occult throws down against a coven of devil-worshipping laser physicists…
Felicity (1978), in which Australian schlockmeister John D. Lamond tries his hand at the Emmanuelle routine…
The Girl with the Thunderbolt Kick (1968), in which Chang Cheh makes a sequel to Come Drink with Me, but you’d never guess that’s what it was without the leading lady’s character name to guide you…
and…
In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission (2013), in which Uwe Boll somehow manages to make “the Transporter goes to Narnia” boring.
A miracle whipping
Jun 22
If only you *don’t* believe in the totally forgotten major Hollywood studio comedy Miracles… we’d get by.Or, “Fat Wish”
Jun 22
In Stand Alone, a very overweight (despite the poster art) Charles Durning huffs, puffs, and blows away cocaine cowboys.Turkish delight
May 29
Look up in the sky! It’s Turkish Superman, an especially unintentionally funny cut-rate foreign rip-off.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
An international crew goes to the moon in 12 To The Moon so that no one country can take the blame for the movie’s failure.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Nine years before AIRPLANE!, the made-for-TV Terror In The Sky told the same story, but without the comedy.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Kung foolery
Apr 21
The Cannon pick-up Young Dragons: Kung Fu Kids teaches kids the joys of beating up adults.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
A gunslinger’s Hallyday
Apr 11
Johnny Hallyday, the French Elvis Presley, stars in the spaghetti western The Specialists, directed by the legendary Sergio Corbucci.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.