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Going Full Retard

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:01:05 -0500

The film-within-a-film, Simple Jack, serves to exemplify the lengths to which some actors go for Oscarbait. Rather than being offended by Simple Jack or the discussion of past performances of famous...

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Double Fantasy: The Deaths of John Lennon

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:14:09 -0500

In what’s become a standard bit of movie synchronicity, two films that tread the same ground were premiered less than six months apart. The two Mark David Chapman films haven’t captured many...

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Martyrs

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:18:03 -0500

You can't be in a torture porn movie in France without being female and having a bad haircut. That's what Haute Tension, Frontière(s), and now Martyrs have proven. Like those previous Midnight...

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RockNRolla

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:53:12 -0500

After torturing audiences with unnecessary remake of and metaphysical mobster flick , some feared that Guy Ritche's once-promising career had nose-dived into the shitter.

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The Wizard of Gore

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:54:27 -0500

The glut of horror film remakes in the 21st century has seen far more failures than successes. Luckily, Jeremy Kasten managed to make an exception to the general rule with his 2007 work, The Wizard...

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The Man

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:47:40 -0500

At the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony host Jon Stewart observed that "normally when you see a black man or woman president, an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty." These progressive...

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Postal

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:45:38 -0500

Written by Boll and Bryan C. Knight, everything about Postal is meant to entertain by being offensive. Boll's compared his film to "classic Monty Python" though it's closer to "current South Park."...

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Death Race

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:24:41 -0500

“Death Race” is a three day event wherein a handful of drivers square off on the circular track at Terminal Island prison.

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Kenny

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:23:37 -0500

A production of the Jacobson clan, the film was co-written by and stars Shane Jacobson as Kenny Smythe. He heads a work crew at Splash Down, one of Melbourne’s premiere porta-pottie companies. He...

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Brand Upon the Brain

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:00:35 -0500

Similar in structure to Maddin’s Cowards Bend the Knee, Brand Upon the Brain is “a remembrance in twelve chapters” featuring Guy Maddin (Erik Steffen Maahs) returning to his childhood home—an...

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Privilege

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:14 -0500

The most lavish project director Peter Watkins has tackled, Privilege tells the story of Steven Shorter (Manfred Mann frontman Paul Jones), whose stage act enjoys national prominence in Britain; it's...

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Inglorious Bastards

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:19:53 -0500

By 1977, World War II films were out of vogue. And that year's Inglorious Bastards is simply a derivative reworking of elements from classic WWII fare such as The Great Escape and Kelly's Heroes. The...

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Dirty Money

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:19:24 -0500

A black car rolls into a coastal town. While waves crash on the rocky shore, three men slip out and enter a nearby bank. It's nearly closing time and the gun-toting gents are there for a withdrawal —...

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WarGames 2: The Dead Code

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:05:37 -0500

Computers can do anything! If you've seen cyberthrillers like Untraceable, The Net or Antitrust, you know that for a fact. We've come a long way from 1983's seminal computer flick WarGames where...

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Max & The Junkmen

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:12:48 -0500

Nothing pleases Max (Michel Piccoli) more than busting criminals. He spent his early years as a judge where he saw too many crooks get off on technicalities and bad police procedure. He gave up the...

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High & Low

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:49:46 -0500

Far above the sprawling urban squalor looms the palatial home of Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune), an executive in National Shoes. Working his way up from nothing, Gondo prides himself on being a...

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Classe Tous Risques

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:09:01 -0500

French crime films originate from a rather small gene pool. A handful of series noir writers provided its characters that were portrayed by a limited number of actors in films helmed by a select...

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What's Your Point, Honey?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:29:07 -0500

In all likelihood Hillary Clinton isn’t going to be the first female vice-president of the United States. A combined effort between The White House Project and COSMOgirl, Project 2024 has been...

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Hell's Ground

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:43:45 -0500

Directed by Lollywood film expert Omar Khan (thehotspotonline.com) and produced by the bizarro movie connoisseurs Mondo Macabro, Hell's Ground is a case of too many good things coming together to...

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Megaforce

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:53:08 -0500

Stuntman turned actor/director Hal Needham provided one of Golden Harvest’s biggest hits with The Cannonball Run which blended disaster film-style casting and coast-to-coast racing. His follow-up...

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Once More into the Porn, Dear Friends

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:43:02 -0500

Rounding out the Star Wars rip-off cycle is the second porn parody, Sex Wars in which the verbose Brinker Duo and his slightly seen sidekick Mark Starkiller come across Princess Layme, who hires them...

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Turkish Delight

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:54:05 -0500

The most blatant of the Star Wars rip offs, Çetin Inanç’s work actually uses clips from Lucas’s film in the opening sequence of The Man Who Saves the World. The clips are run forwards, backwards, and...

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To Infinity and Back

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:06:50 -0500

There’s a lot of groaning to be heard when watching William Sach’s 1980 flick Galaxina. Starring Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten, you’d hope that the groans would be coming from the screen with...

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Spaghetti Space Operas

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:57:53 -0500

For the production of Luigi Cozzi’s 1978 film Starcrash, more money was spent on eye makeup than for special effects. The film’s protagonist, Stella Star (Caroline Munro) wears gobs of mascara and...

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Japanese Whispers

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:23:15 -0500

In Wakusei Daisenso, a team of United Nations astronauts climb aboard the Gohten and head to Venus to rescue June, who’s been outfitted in a pair of leather panties and bustier while held captive by...

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From Brazil with Love

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:46:28 -0500

One of a long series of films starring the Trapalhões, a Brazilian musical “comedy” troupe, this painful flick has the group helping Prince Flick find the other half of a “brain computer” to defeat...

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Star Babe

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:49:57 -0500

Not surprisingly, it was the porn industry who first cashed in on Star Wars phenomenon. Known for quickie knockoffs of current hits (Edward Penishands, anyone?), Star Babe was helmed by...

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Assassination Week Pt. 5: Winter Kills

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:50:43 -0500

Richard Condon penned Winter Kills twenty six years after he wrote The Manchurian Candidate. The latter serves as a fitting counterpoint to the former as Winter Kills is a fairly accurate, albeit...

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Assassination Week Pt. 4: Parallax View

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:53:03 -0500

The 1970s were a Golden Age for assassination films. The cynicism harvested by Watergate gave new life to conspiracy theories while mourning the loss of innocence that the Kennedy/King assassinations...

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Assassination Week Pt. 3: The Price of Power

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:02:47 -0500

Though Van Johnson may play a character named James Garfield and claims to be the twentieth President of the United States, that’s where the historical accuracy of Tonino Valerii’s The Price of Power...

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Assassination Week Pt. 2: Suddenly

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:37:59 -0500

Before Frank Sinatra was trying to foil an assassination attempt in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), he was intent on knocking off the Commander in Chief in Suddenly. As John Baron, Sinatra brings...

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The Tall Target

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:58:53 -0500

John Kennedy doesn’t take shit from anybody. He’s discovered a plot to kill Abraham Lincoln on a stop in Baltimore on the way to his inauguration. When his boss at the New York police headquarters...

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The Cleaner

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:02:02 -0500

Pity poor Renny Harlin. The Finnish director is still trying to recover from the 1995 debacle Cutthroat Island. His last few films have been lucky to even snag a U.S. theatrical release much less a...

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Digging the Bones of Indy Jones

Wed, 28 May 2008 13:38:04 -0500

"How much of human life is lost in waiting?" asks Professor Harold Oxley (John Hurt) in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In the case of the fourth (and newest) Indiana Jones...

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Love Not Given Lightly

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:37:09 -0500

The whip cracks, a man moans; is it pleasure or pain he's feeling? Is there even a difference? Well, to any submissive worth his weight in salty tears, there isn't much. And the safe, sane, and...

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Thu, 22 May 2008 12:48:06 -0500

Hold on to your hats (and your whips and guns), Indiana Jones is back. The Jones saga has survived the near two decade hiatus, returning free of dismal comic relief, extraneous characters, and cutesy...

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Speed Racer

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:07:26 -0500

Monkeys are funny. Poop can be funny too. That said, Speed Racer must simply be hysterical since it has both. It also has a lot of pretty colors that dazzle the eyes and befuddle the mind.

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The Ninth Configuration

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:43:13 -0500

Somewhere in the Northwest United States stands the creepiest castle on the continent. It’s become the asylum for a dozen or so washed-up soldiers who cracked under pressure. From out of the thick...

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Zero Hour

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:47:42 -0500

If you’ve seen Airplane! then you’ve seen Zero Hour, though you may not be aware of it. In the museum of 1970s disaster films, an entire wing is dedicated to airplane-themed films.

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Pretty Poison

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:04:27 -0500

“The world has no place for fantasies,” learns parolee Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) after he meets apple-pie sweet Sue Ann Stepanek (Tuesday Weld). He first spies her bearing the flag in her high...

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Full Contact

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:30:37 -0500

Hong Kong action meets Cannon Film sensibility in Ringo Lam’s Full Contact. The film opens with a robbery where audiences meet baddies Judge, Virgin, and Deano. A motley band of outlaws, Deano is a...

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Iron Man

Sat, 03 May 2008 12:51:02 -0500

Tony Stark makes you feel that he’s a cool exec with a heart of steel. However, he’s really a wounded loner who hides his hurt with booze, broads, and banter. Luckily, Jon Favreau’s Iron Man isn’t a...

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20th Century Oz

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:44:57 -0500

Teenage groupie Dorothy is living in the land down under where she and her pal Jan spend Friday evenings at the local youth center catching unknown musical groups like Wally and the Falcons. Hitching...

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Quintet

Thu, 01 May 2008 16:23:38 -0500

The first thing a viewer notices about Robert Altman’s science fiction film is how dirty the camera’s lens is. The edges of the frame seem smeared, lending the film a dreamy, flashback quality....

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Dinah East

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:21:43 -0500

Released the same year as Michael Sarne’s Myra Breckinridge, this is a lower rent but far more successful interpretation of similar themes. When a lecherous mortician takes an opportunity to see Ms....

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Carnal Knowledge

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:09:17 -0500

What the hell happened to Mike Nichols? The director once delivered consistent films that held up a mirror to American bourgeoisie society with such poignant fare as The Graduate and Who’s Afraid of...

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American Cannibal: The Road to Reality

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:12:59 -0500

A mock-you-mentary about the business of so-called “reality” television, American Cannibal mixes talking head interviews with TV producers, writers, marketers, and stars with the story of an...

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The Cars That Ate Paris

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:16:37 -0500

Poor Arthur Waldo. The painfully soft-spoken man is deathly afraid of driving after accidentally killing a man, and then he has the bad luck to pass through Paris, Australia where the local economy...

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Decoy

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:33:35 -0500

This seldom seen film noir was recently rescued from obscurity by the 'Film Noir Classics Collection.' The film stars Jean Gillie and was intended to be a showcase for her talents by her husband,...

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Over The Top

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:32:35 -0500

Cannon Pictures bet the farm on Over the Top, and it lost. The story of a trucker named Lincoln Hawk (Sylvester Stallone) reuniting with his estranged son, Michael, through a road trip and a series...

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Living Dead Girl

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:01:00 -0500

“I’m not a goddamn photographer, I’m an actress,” screams American tourist Barbara at her husband Greg. Apparently he’s as unconvinced as the audience.

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Chosen Survivors

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:11:24 -0500

Helicopters arrive, laden with the chosen few plucked from their everyday lives and allowed entrance to a secret bunker set into a mountainside. They’ve been hand selected as American’s next best...

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Hero and The Terror

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:18:29 -0500

Danny “Hero” O’Brien doesn’t like to wait for backup, especially when he’s hot on the trail of superhuman serial killer Simon Moon. But if you were Chuck Norris, would you wait around for other cops...

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Crime Wave

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:55:13 -0500

“Once a crook, always a crook,” is the belief of Lieutenant Sims (Sterling Hayden), the tough-talking cop who’s convinced ex-con Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson) has his hands in a filling station heist...

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Queen of Outer Space

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:57:10 -0500

Planet Earth may be in mortal danger, and it’s up to Professor Konrad to uncover the perilous mystery that threatens us all. He’s being chaperoned to Space Station A by a three man crew: Captain Neal...

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Kiler

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:13:31 -0500

Poor Jurek Kiler (Cezary Pazura). He was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong gun in the trunk of his taxi. Now he’s staring down the barrel of a gun, son of a gun, accused of being...

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Mr. Freedom

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:25:38 -0500

The animosity between the US and France has yet to be settled. This longstanding rivalry between the two red, white, and blue countries is at the center of William Klein’s 1969 superhero farce Mr....

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Cobra Woman

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:20:13 -0500

Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes? Perhaps because snakes are the most phallic creature to crawl the Earth, and only the alluring Maria Montez can tame them. Montez stars as Tollea, a woman with a...

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Blast of Silence

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:33:20 -0500

Asking a group of cinephiles what film ended the film noir cycle is akin to throwing raw meat to a pack of wild dogs. If you’re not careful, you’re liable to lose a finger.

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Nightmare Alley

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:29:22 -0500

Tyrone Power works the Ten-in-One as Stan Carlisle, a front man in a mentalist act. Not content to work for Zeena and her rum bum husband, Stan’s got plans of learning Zeena’s secret code and...

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Reptilicus

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:58:36 -0500

Japan didn’t corner the market on giant monster movies. This Danish entry into the genre stars a missing link, the titular Reptilicus. Looking like a sickly sea serpent, the creature’s tail was...

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Battle Beyond the Stars

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:17:31 -0500

This guilty pleasure is a Roger Corman production that features a diverse group of talent, including director Jimmy T. Murakami and screenwriter John Sayles. One of the better films in the vast wake...

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Rififi

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:13:16 -0500

Based loosely on a dense, argot-strewn novel by Auguste Le Breton, Rififi was co-adapted by director Jules Dassin while on the Hollywood blacklist in the US. Having blazed trails with film Noir...

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High Plains Drifter

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:18:34 -0500

You can look all over the world and not find a bigger badass than Clint Eastwood, and in High Plains Drifter, he plays one of the toughest antihero hombres to ever squint at the screen.

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A Boy and His Dog

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:15:20 -0500

Accompanying a candy-colored montage of mushroom clouds is the ironic legend that “Politicians had finally solved the problem of urban blight.” This sets the tone for the wry post-apocalyptic tale of...

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Skidoo

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:42:04 -0500

Jackie Gleason stars as Tony Banks, a retired torpedo who’s tapped by God (Groucho Marx), the head of La Cosa Nostra, to bump off George “Blue Chips” Packard (Mickey Rooney) before he turns state’s...

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The Heroic Trio

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:14:41 -0500

Gathering three of the hottest Hong Kong starlets (in looks and box office draw), The Heroic Trio is a superhero fantasy cum supernatural adventure. Anita Mui stars as Wonder Woman, a modern day...

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Damnation Alley

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:15:11 -0500

Straight arrow Air Force Major Sam Denton and loose cannon Lieutenant Jake Tanner push the proverbial “button” that launches a counterstrike against the Soviet Union in the opening sortie of World...

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Johnny Mnemonic

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:49:04 -0500

In what other film will you see a pioneer of punk, the original gangsta, an avant-garde Japanese director, a Finnish scholar, and a teen heartthrob all act side by side with a dolphin? None other...

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Myra Breckinridge

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:50 -0500

Far worse than any disaster dreamed up by Irwin Allen, the end of the 1960s saw cinema often misguidedly attempting to embrace popular culture. Along with the LSD-laced bomb and the free love fest...

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Rio Bravo

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:12:43 -0500

A seminal Western, Rio Bravo is a terrific treatise on male friendship, loyalty, and pride. John Wayne stars as Sheriff John T. Chance, a former gunfighter who’s settled down in what’s normally a...

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Darktown Strutters

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:11:47 -0500

Written by George Armitage, Darktown Strutters is steeped in Blaxploitation tropes. Syreena, leader of the all-girl Darktown Strutters motorcycle gang, travels through a 1970s California landscape...

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Cyborg 2087

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:03:32 -0500

Out of a suppressive future ruled by robotic sentinels comes a man determined to change the past. It’s not easy — Killer cyborgs are in pursuit. But while on the run he meets a woman who believes in...

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Night of the Lepus

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:06:04 -0500

In the 1970s, America was under attack. Hordes of spiders, ants, rats, snakes, alligators, piranhas, and other nasty creepy crawlies nipped at the heels of the average citizen at every turn. But none...

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Z.P.G.

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:01:24 -0500

Set in a dystopian future, Z.P.G. (”Zero Population Growth”) tells the Malthusian tale of a world where the planet’s natural resources have been consumed to such a critical level that the “World...

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Mermaids of Tiburon

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:08:19 -0500

In Mermaids of Tiburon, the freshman film of underwater cinematographer John Lamb, diver Samuel Jamison meets with Ernst Steinhauer about some rare luminescent pearls that are to be found off the...

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Miracle Mile

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:19:53 -0600

Named one of the ten best un-produced screenplays by American Film in 1983, it would take another five years for writer/director Steve De Jarnatt’s Miracle Mile to finally come to fruition. The film...

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Zardoz

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:01:46 -0600

Have you ever wanted to see Sean Connery wearing a diaper? Look no further than Zardoz, John Boorman’s self-indulgent treatise on classism. Set in 2293, Connery plays Zed, one of the Exterminators —...

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The Hidden

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:13:56 -0600

There’s an alien in our midst, and it loves sex, violence, fast cars, and rock-n-roll. It’s creeping from one character actor to another turning law-abiding citizens into creeps. Luckily, hot-handed...

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Pickup on South Street

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:09:21 -0600

Richard Widmark, aka the King of Film Noir (Kiss of Death, Night and the City, Panic in the Streets), stars as Skip McCoy in Sam Fuller’s thriller Pickup on South Street. Skip is as shifty as smoke....

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The Killer

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:13:17 -0600

Director John Woo’s early career wasn’t that special. A workman, not a craftsman, he turned out chop sockey flicks, broad comedies, and lighthearted dramas while toiling away for Hong Kong’s Golden...

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The Warriors

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:35:49 -0600

Can you count, suckers? If you can, then you’ll know that Cyrus (Roger Hill), leader of the Gramercy Riffs, has his head on straight when he gathers nine delegates from a hundred gangs from all...

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Runaway

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:06:41 -0600

Having trouble with your robot? You’d better call the cops. Sergeant Jack Ramsay (Tom Selleck) will undoubtedly come to your rescue. More of a glorified IT department than police, Ramsay and his team...

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Escape from New York

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:22:35 -0600

If the image of the Statue of Liberty’s head in a New York street in Cloverfield seems familiar, it’s because this was used prior for the poster of Escape from New York. In the film’s alternate...

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Barbarella

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:01:49 -0600

In this adaptation of the hipster French comic by Jean-Claude Forest, Jane Fonda dazzles audiences with rainbow colors, wears some truly revealing outfits (when wearing anything at all) and is...

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Outland

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:16:24 -0600

When Marshall William T. O’Niel (Sean Connery) begins his tour of duty at the Io titanium mine he discovers that his most important role is to keep the peace while keeping his mouth shut and his eyes...

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For The Bible Tells Me So

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:44:21 -0600

What do you do when your heart tells you one thing but your dogma tells you another? That’s the main question at the heart of For the Bible Tells Me So, an examination of the rift between religious...

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Satan's Cheerleaders

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:09:08 -0600

It’s The Pom Pom Girls meets Race with the Devil when a quartet of promiscuous high schoolers cross their school’s janitor. He has his janitorial services union card and he’s also a member of the...

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Capricorn One

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:15:13 -0600

“I’m always unwrapping things,” says Elliot Gould. He may be talking about hotel soap packages, but as investigative journalist Robert Caulfield, Gould also unwraps the biggest cover-up since the...

Rare videos from around the globe, specializing in Japanese art flicks and other obscurities.

The Satan Bug

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:37:27 -0600

The Satan Bug mixes equal parts of John Frankenheimer’s Black Sunday and Michael Bay’s The Rock. The film begins with a break-in at Station Three, the most important germ warfare research facility in...

Rare videos from around the globe, specializing in Japanese art flicks and other obscurities.

Brainsmasher... A Love Story

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:20:27 -0600

Perhaps with only the exceptions of Uwe Boll and Michael Bay, Albert Pyun may be one of the most reviled directors in the history of cinema. Having helmed such classic fare as Captain America, Alien...

Rare videos from around the globe, specializing in Japanese art flicks and other obscurities.

Logan's Run

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:02:00 -0600

If you ever find yourself living in a domed city, you might as well start planning to break out. Because if movies have taught us anything, it’s that the world outside the dome will always be a lot...

Rare videos from around the globe, specializing in Japanese art flicks and other obscurities.