WATCH NOW Has watching a movie ever made you cringe and say, “I could have done a better job than that.” Well, I found myself reflecting on this scenario about 20 minutes into ‘Man of the Year’, the latest film brought to life by director Barry Levinson in conjunction with Robin Williams. Like in his […]
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WATCH NOW Out there in the sea of palm-trees lies a hidden cove of bizarre yet amazing and unexplainable films. The Crippled Masters is one of those gems that serves as an example for not just cringing content but cringing art. It features not one but two severely disabled martial artist actors; Frankie Shum and
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WATCH NOW The initial idea behind the movie was what if David Allan Coe, in his drunken stupor of cheap whiskey and Quaaludes, created an R rated episode of The Dukes of Hazzard set in 1984 Doomsday America? We don’t have to ask ourselves anything since 1984’s Hell Riders answers it all. Cinematically, it is
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WATCH NOW Even though Ron Howard did not direct this Roger Corman’s production, it was the motion picture that allowed him to shift from acting in films to directing them. Television audiences already knew him from the Andy Griffith Show where he featured for 8 seasons and was now starting on another long running show,
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WATCH NOW Truly horrifying. Not even the romantic involvement of Ann-Margret (The Swinger, 1966) helps it. Hardly a single redeeming feature and nothing that might lend itself to shift it into the so bad it is good category. To tell you the truth, my impression of it is that it would probably go onto a
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WATCH NOW Louis Clyde Stouman; editor: Gerald Roberts; music: Billy Barber score added in 1985; cast: John Wayne (John Wyatt), Marion Burns (Linda Carter), Earl Hodgins (Dr. Carter), Yakima Canutt (Curly Joe Gale), Reed Howes (Tugger), Perry Murdock (Ike), Gordon Clifford (Mike), Gino Corrado (Rurales captain), Henry Hall (Colonel Peters); Runtime: 55; MPAA Rating: NR;
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WATCH NOW So here is yet another Blaxploitation movie, a review of which will appear in this post. This is the fifth of six I am examining this month (thanks, knuckles producers of cheapens box sets!). This particular tape is more slow-paced than most, but fortunately it contains some nice action set pieces to compensate
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WATCH NOW According to British author Douglas Adams, fiction is a tool to understand the lowliness of British culture. He perceived the universe as a classroom with kids playing and using a petty bureaucracy to run a similar place to Earth. Personally, I have never been a fan of comics and novels of this sort,
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WATCH NOW Justin’s Review If you decided to go see this movie based solely on its title, and The Karate Kid’s Martin Kove is in it too, you would assume where? Exactly. And you would be so, so wrong. No, no, you would be so wrong. Unless your demented mind wondered what if a kid
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WATCH NOW Even as a serial killer with a history, he has a penchant for violence, Thorn (Richard Daniel Thomas Holloran) remains a man of tradition. Every two “leap years”, on Leap Day, he visits a remote red state and targets as many teenage students as possible so he can stab the life out of
