A Better Tomorrow launched John Woo’s career into the stylistic bullet ballet kinetic filmmaking he’s known for. The movie broke Hong Kong’s box office record. Its “gun-fu” dual-wielding pistol mayhem…
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Zone Troopers is a playful mashup of WW2 action and campy sci-fi adventure. A comic book brought to life, it features scrappy US Soldiers, inept Nazis, and retro-style bug aliens…
The Company of Wolves (1984) was potentially mismarketed. Curiously, the infamous moviemaking wildcard Cannon films (Bloodsport, Death Wish 3) distributed it in the United States, branding it a horror show. …
Trancers is the first entry in a whopping six-film cult-movie franchise (plus the lost footage turned sequel, Trancers 1.5). Its misleading movie poster leans cyberpunk. It’s like you will follow…
Phantasm chilled on my watch list for a year but slipped my attention for far longer. With my weak stomach and proclivity for powerful childlike nightmares (I have a diagnosable…
Somewhere between the ages of six and eight, my parents rented Robot Jox (1990) on VHS. Or I caught a glimpse of its Cable TV commercial. I’m fuzzy on these…
Despite my love for the cult film The Warriors, I had never looked into its director. That man is Walter Hill. Seeking insights into his creativity, I began to go…
Arena (1989) isn’t one of those so-bad-it’s-good movies, nor is it an underappreciated gem. At most times (and I say this lovingly), it’s a load of crap. But I enjoy…
In Sid and Nancy, the couple breaks for a romantic kiss next to an alleyway dumpster as, in semi-slow motion, trash flutters to the ground. A baby has a green…
Leviathan asks if its characters can escape an aquasapien creature. Today, you question if the monster movie all-stars that made it could swim through saturated genre waters and come out…