Teleport City

13December 25, 2012

In at least one scene we see a Christmas tree and some garland, and I think someone mentions Christmas at some point. In my book, that qualifies this as a cherished holiday movie, like Gremlins and Die Hard

5December 17, 2012

If you can roll with the first five minutes, then you will probably walk away from the viewing experience with a mild sense of having been moderately entertained

5November 29, 2012

Mattei departed this mortal coil via a film that is the perfect summation of everything he ever contributed to the world of cinema

7November 26, 2012

Surreal and outrageous scenarios are handled with the utmost banality of attitude, as if Chinese skinheads kidnapping Abraham Lincoln during World War II is the sort of shit that happens every day

2November 21, 2012

If you want to see Felix Leiter from Goldfinger hopping around naked in bunny ears – and who among us can say they don’t? – this is the film for you.

4November 19, 2012

After more hours than I want to count folded into the capsules that comprise coach service on most major American air carriers, I stepped into Sydney with a single thought: I needed a drink

What pushes this into my good graces is the fact that Van Damme is still trying, perhaps even harder than when he was at the top of the game, to make quality films

Slam Dance isn't quite a classic, but I definitely rank it as an unfairly dismissed and forgotten gem. How you feel about it depends largely on how you feel about Tom Hulce and Wayne Wang

Beam and Daniels have managed to poke a spot on me that was already sore as I am not the biggest fan of white whiskey, be it unaged white dog or simply filtered to be colorless.

Francesca he intends to press against her will into decadent royal society, which in classic style involves lots of cavorting, eating of turkey legs, mild orgies, and devil worship

There were a lot of great albums made to cash in on the James Bond movies. And a lot forgettable albums, and many terrible ones. And then there were a few that were just weird.

In five minutes, you gave me Ken Foree in micro-shorts, full frontal nudity, and murder by steam room. By the time we got to the frozen flying eel, I was willing to pledge my very soul to you

The special thing about Turkish pulp films is how, even at their most plagiarized, they can serve as an example of just how unique a complete rip-off can be

One of the first heavy metal horror films, though it draws more from the Grand Guignol stage theatrics of KISS and Alice Cooper than the pentagrams and pantyhose of glam metal

When America jumped headfirst into the ocean of folly that was Prohibition, the dedicated drinkers of the United States found any number of ways to respond

If exploitation cinema can be traced to a single wellspring from which all its filth and fury flows, an argument can be made that said wellspring is Dwain Esper