Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young karate expert searches for her brother’s killer in Hong Kong. REVIEW: As someone who loves exploitation cinema, I’m always looking forward to reviewing something from that style of movie. However, if one of those films feels like it tries trying too hard to recreate the same style and attitude of another film, all it …
Read More »Film Review: The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate. REVIEW: It’s been a little tough figuring out what I wanted to say about The Thing With Two heads mainly because I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be some kind of comedy, action …
Read More »Film Review: Hacker (2016)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: With the help of his new friends Alex Danyliuk turns to a life of crime and identity theft. REVIEW: The movie Hacker made me think about our tendency to glorify outlaws. It seems like we like romanticize real life figures known for committing crimes. Look at the Western outlaw Jesse James. People tend to think of …
Read More »Film Review: Teenage Zombies (1959)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.
Read More »Film Review: Glen or Glenda (1953)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda), the other of a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne). REVIEW: Today we’re going over a movie directed by the legendary Ed Wood. For those of you who might not know who he is, which would be surprising, he’s responsible for making many films that are …
Read More »Film Review: Great White (The Last Shark) (1981)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: James Franciscus tries to save hundreds of swimmers in a coastal resort after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing the area. REVIEW: You have to hand it to the Italian movie industry, particularly of the 1980s: it was never afraid to shamelessly rip off other movies or pass their own film off as a sequel to …
Read More »Film Review: The NeverEnding Story III (1994)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young boy must restore order when a group of bullies steal the magical book that acts as a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia. REVIEW: When I saw that there was a 3rd entry in the Neverending Story franchise, I was taken aback. Not only was I unaware they ever made another …
Read More »Film Review: Undefeatable (1993)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Kristi Jones (Cynthia Rothrock) avenges her sister’s death at the hands of a crazed martial arts rapist. REVIEW: Now here we have a movie that brings me back. If you, like myself, were one of those kids in the late ‘80s and the ‘90s that stayed up late night on weekends or during the summer, you …
Read More »Film Review: Miami Connection (1987)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade. REVIEW: The Miami Connection had a kind of strange journey. An independently made martial arts film released originally in 1987, it got a pretty crappy critical reception and flopped at the box office. It …
Read More »Film Review: Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Santa’s sleigh gets stuck in Florida, he tells a group of kids the story of Thumbelina. REVIEW: If there was ever an act that can be seen as wanton cruelty, it’s making someone watch Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. After the misery I endured when I had to review Little Red Riding Hood and …
Read More »Film Review: Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Cowboy James Franciscus seeks fame and fortune by capturing a Tyrannosaurus Rex living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. His victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public. Another film featuring the stop-action special effects talents of Ray Harryhausen. REVIEW: Having come off of …
Read More »Film Review: I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle (1990)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way. REVIEW: I’m not entirely sure my brain had completely recovered …
Read More »Film Review: Nude on the Moon (1961)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A rich rocket scientist organizes an expedition to the moon, which they discover is inhabited by nude women. REVIEW: After being stunned by a movie about a vampiric motorcycle, tortured by a musical from Mexico, and forced to sit through a tepid movie about a snake empowered woman, I wasn’t sure what more I would have …
Read More »Film Review: Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being bitten by a cobra in the Philipines, Lena can turn herself into a snake and she stops aging. The curse comes with a price. The priestess Lena must consume cobra venom and vital young men to stay young. REVIEW: As I watched the batch of movies I was asked to review, my weekend had …
Read More »Film Review: I Am Here…Now (2009)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Disappointed by its creation, the almighty being that created Man arrives on Earth in a human form and interacts with various troubled, wicked and sinful people on his journey to Vegas. REVIEW: My suspicions that the HIgh Sheriffs at this site are trying to see if they can break a person’s spirit by making them watch …
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