SYNOPSIS: Two people with bad marriages get together, trying to enjoy at least one part of their lives. What they find is more devastation and despair. REVIEW: Intimacy is a movie that is notorious for its real, unsimulated sex scenes. It’s starring Mark Rylance, a recent Oscar winner for Bridge of Spies, and Kerry Fox, a person who has given an on-screen …
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Film Review: Cannibal Mercenary (1983)
SYNOPSIS: Wilson, a Thai veteran of the Vietnam War and all around master of combat, leads a group of men on a daring mission into the jungles of Vietnam to topple a dangerous drug lord and his cannibal army. REVIEW: This is one of those movies that films like Death Proof or Planet Terror or even Hobo With a Shotgun …
Read More »Film Review: Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Adam Sorg is a mildly successful artist; I mean he has a nice house on the beach and a pretty gal. Adam is upset though because a local art critic has informed him that his work lacks true color. Adam’s found that color however, and wait till you see what he paints with now.. REVIEW: Directed …
Read More »Film Review: Samurai Zombie (2008)
SYNOPSIS: Yoroi Samurai Zombie AKA Samurai Zombie is a 2008 Japanese comic horror film directed by Tak Sakaguchi and written by Ryuhei Kitamura, who had previously collaborated on Versus REVIEW: It’s safe to say that the most effective horror movies are the ones that wreak havoc on a happy family. It’s an old cliché that the genre is rotten with …
Read More »Film Review: 68 Kill (2017)
SYNOPSIS: A punk-rock after hours about femininity, masculinity and the theft of $68,000. REVIEW: There seems to be a trend as of late that I’m really digging coming out of the film industry, this trend of course being a rush of balls-out cinema pieces fueled towards violence, comedy, and chaotic absurdity. With movies such as “Mayhem” and “Brawl in Cell …
Read More »Film Review: Rambo (2008)
SYNOPSIS: In Thailand, John Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn Burma, and rescue a group of Christian aid workers who were kidnapped by the ruthless local infantry unit. REVIEW: Way back in 1982, we met John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone, who us action movie loving kids previously met in Rocky), a medal winning Vietnam veteran, in First …
Read More »Film Review: The Torturer (2008)
SYNOPSIS: A U.S. Army interrogator talks with his therapist about actions that took place during a specific interrogation that had questionable results. REVIEW: Written by Graham Green, Richard Loranger Directed By Graham Green Starring: Nichelle Nichols, Andrew W. Walker, Sophia Choi With a name like “The Torturer” one would think that the subject matter of this movie would be rather …
Read More »Film Review: Cathy’s Curse (1977) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: After a father and his daughter are killed in a fiery car crash, a young girl named Cathy (Randi Allen) is possessed by the vengeful spirit that may or may not be related to her. With those close to Cathy either going crazy or mysteriously dying. As the family attempts to solve this mystery, a mysterious doll that …
Read More »Film Review: Harlequin (aka Dark Forces) (1980)
SYNOPSIS: A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the enigmatic stranger who mysteriously comes to “visit” him. Possessing uncanny magical prowess and miraculous psychic abilities, the peculiar, but seemingly benevolent, visitor quickly gains a spell-binding hold over the senator …
Read More »Film Review: Fight for Your Life (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A trio of escaped convicts hold an African American family hostage in their home and subject them to a number of horrible torments. REVIEW: Back in the early 2000s I was hanging around with a group of guys known as the Brains on Film that had their own public access show and website. These guys were hardcore into the exploitation …
Read More »Film Review: American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Haunted by the death of his father and other psychological traumas, Daniel (Roberto Scorza) returns to the home where he was raised. Faced with intense emotional scars, as well as physical — which are realized by the years of self-harm depicted by the cuttings adorning his body — he enters the bathroom to begin a journey of self-exploration, self-mutilation …
Read More »Film Review: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
SYNOPSIS: The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor’s latest creation, Nuclear Man. REVIEW: Today’s journey into bad movie land is the much-maligned Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, though if the director had his way, it would have had the subtitle The Quest for a Budget by the time they wrapped. The film centers on …
Read More »Film Review: The Neighbor Zombie (2010)
SYNOPSIS: In 2010, the people of Seoul, South Korea fight a virus that threatens to infect the planet. REVIEW: By and large, the American movie-going public is pretty much over zombies. The undead apocalypse trend was a mighty force in the mid-2000s consumerist culture, being relevant what with all our wars and recessions and such. For a while there, it …
Read More »Film Review: Possession (1981)
SYNOPSIS: After a woman tells her husband that she wants a divorce she starts acting stranger and stranger as some pretty bizarre things begin to happen all around them. REVIEW: I know this guy that fancies himself as some sort of intellectual (even though he isn’t as nearly smart as he thinks he is) that only watches “intelligent” movies that the …
Read More »Film Review: Santa Clause Conquers the Martians (1964)
SYNOPSIS: The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. REVIEW: Well it’s that time of year for about a million holiday movies to be shown ad nauseum. For some of us, the nonstop bombardment of Christmas themed shows and movies tend to get tiresome to the point that you start wanting to …
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