The martial arts exercise Kill And Kill Again has enough good action to help it stand up well to the action output from Asia.
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The idea behind the documentary Hollywood Babylon – a sleazy look at old Hollywood scandals – sounds like it can’t miss, but it does. Badly.
Not worth your time
Jul 12
Based on an urban legend, The Philadelphia Experiment is definitely one time where you should just stick to reading about the urban legend.
Lots of new stuff at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting:
A Game of Death (1945), in which RKO tries to figure out how to get The Most Dangerous Game past the Production Code…
Kongo (1932), in which MGM still has the luxury of being able to say, “Sod the Code!”…
Liquid Sky (1982), in which aliens don’t screw around when they’re looking to score dope, but the movie unfortunately does…
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), in which giant robots punch giant monsters in the face again…
Predator (1987), in which Count Zaroff isn’t from around here…
Sole Survivor (1970), in which the ghosts of a World War II bomber crew would like a word with the one guy from their unit who’s still alive…
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), in which questions I never cared about are answered well enough, I suppose…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989), in which a made-for-cable interpretation that you probably missed even if you did subscribe to Showtime in 1989 improbably raises the bar on all the famous versions…
Torture Ship (1939), in which glands are the key to crime-prevention…
and…
Without Warning (1979), in which Count Zaroff isn’t from around there, either.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
For the birds
Jul 2
Unless you’ve ever wanted to see the ribald side of Menahem Golan, I would suggest you avoid seeing What’s Good For The Goose.
Twenty years already?
Jun 22
It’s the 20th anniversary of The Unknown Movies, so to mark the occasion, I decided to review a “twenty” movie – that being Twenty Bucks.
It was perhaps inevitable that Empire Pictures would fold with efforts like Eliminators, having a high concept but pretty poor execution for the most part.
AMITYVILLE DEATH HOUSE (2015)
…in which it seems that even the name guest-star would rather be watching a different film…
But, hey! – eye-windows!
[NB: NSFW: a little blood, and some very silly nudity.]
I have also transferred over:
– Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde (1931)
– The Lodger (1927)
– The Lodger (1932)
Boys will be (bad) boys
Jun 2
What makes someone turn bad? The drama The Boys Next Door manages to engross while looking at some possible answers to that question.
Losing my religion
May 23
“Pray TV was a piece of s**t from beginning to end… Oh god, it was the worst movie you’ve ever seen.” – Dabney Coleman, 2016 interview.