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.
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.
Prize-winning action
Jun 4
Our British cousins show with The Tournament that they can make a low budget action movie winner.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.
All wet
May 25
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but this image from the DVD of The Water Babies shows you can judge a movie by its box art. Still, I watched the whole bland enterprise.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
If you remember how technology, the fantastic, and science fiction were, for the most part, depicted on American television in the mid-1970s, the feature length pilot movie for the short lived TV series Future Cop will be pretty much free of surprise and interest for you.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Despite its title and poster art, Crash! is actually a horror movie. But despite being a horror movie, there is very little here that will catch the interest of horror aficionados.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Cinematic flotsam and jetsam
Apr 24
From the director of one of the worst castaway on a deserted island movies ever made comes Lovewrecked, which is… one of the worst castaway on a deserted island movies ever made.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
With care, such as giving a hot woman major firepower, Everly shows you can make a great action movie set almost entirely in one confined space.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
B-Fest Roundup, 2023
Apr 3
It’s been a long time since I did one of these, hasn’t it?
Big Man Japan (2007), in which a Japanese TV comic asks, “What if it really sucked to be Ultraman?”…
Bloodrayne (2005), in which Uwe Boll does all the same crap he usually did in his heyday, but it brings me no pleasure this time…
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973), in which Nathan Juran just isn’t cut out for the 70’s…
The Children (1980), in which Three Mile Island could have been worse…
and…
Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981), in which a bunch of Taiwanese guys raid the entire corpus of Western (or West of them, at any rate) fantasy adventure literature for source material, and make the strangest sword-and-sorcery flick I’ve seen in ages.
I’ve also got another newly rebuilt review:
The Phantom of the Opera (1943), in which I’m able at last to explain why it sucks, instead of just how.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
James Earl Jones IS The Man!
Mar 26
With the help from a script by Rod Serling, actor James Earl Jones gives The Man true Presidential power.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.