WATCH NOW After the subpar Italian action film Black Cobra of 1987, the question arises whether people were wanting to see more of Fred ‘The Hammer’ Williamson’s tough New York cop character Robert ‘Bob’ Malone, but if there were, a couple of years later their wish would be granted with The Black Cobra 2. However, […]
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WATCH NOW It really highlighted that Donnie Yen was ready to take that next step in the HK martial arts film roster to have his name alongside Jackie Chan and Jet Li, thanks to a terrific fight he had in that movie with Wu Jing and Sammo Hung. I think that Yip Wilson is more
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WATCH NOW I guess I was something like halfway through my first viewing of Captain Apache when I understood that this is one of those movies that really has to be seen twice in order to get something out of it. My notepad, usually filled with gauzy outlines of the story, character names, and other
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WATCH NOW After a prologue that features the authorities evicting the Stokes family from their tenant farm in Arkansas, the timeline fast-forwards to 1958 where the same Stokes family from the prologue can be found in sunny California. The Stokes women are now attempting to keep their hairdressing business afloat and to add to this
WATCH NOW Nabonga (1944) with the cast consisting of Julie London, Gorilla (Ray Corrigan), and Buster Crabbe: Nabonga blends genres reminiscent of adventure films like Tarzan the Ape Man and King Kong. Similarly, Terry Moore played a role similar to London’s in Mighty Joe Young. Review: Unlike other films, Sam Newfield’s Poverty Row jungle film
WATCH NOW While marching disreputable people across the broad square, the police are being accompanied by the village band playing an oompah-pah tune. At this point, everyone is smiling. These people are all bore criminals. The voice of Humphrey Bogart on the square police is telling us as much, but we know better: they were
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WATCH NOW In 2017, BFI Southbank hosted a screening of his films, due to it being a century since French director Jean-Pierre Melville’s birth. The film made by him in 1962 was also released in the region. The works of Melville are distinct due to his passion for American cinema which led to him creating
WATCH NOW Regardless of what one thinks of Lewis’s level of creativity, it is important to look away from those movies to gauge the true extent of the depravity in his artistry. She-Devils on Wheels was Lewis’s entry into the motorcycle genre fueled by Roger Corman’s movie, ‘The Wild Angels’. It was also the first
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WATCH NOW Cirio H. Santiago (July 5, 2019) has a movie called Death Force, which we previously examined. After the Vietnam War, the movie was re-released on video with a new title, Fighting Mad. It is more known for it’s blaxploitation than Carsploitation and more Kung fu than Rambo. As with every war movie made
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WATCH NOW “The Big Easy” being one of the most potent American films in a year, also happens to be a very good thriller. I say ‘happens’ because the plot of this movie is a mere excuse for its true strength, the creation of a group of characters so fascinating, so intricate, and so innovative
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