Category: Movie

Movie Review: Green Lantern: First Flight

A Green Lantern briefing is interrupted.

Movie Review: Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) Directed by Lauren Montgomery Test Pilot Hal Jordan is practicing in a flight simulator when that non-vehicle is suddenly surrounded by a green glow and transported to a nearby desert. There he finds a crashed spacecraft and its dying pilot, an alien named Abin Sur. Abin Sur bequeaths his… Continue reading Movie Review: Green Lantern: First Flight

Movie Review: The Castle of Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu and Lin Tang arrive at their new base.

Movie Review: The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) directed by Jesus Franco Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) has once again resurfaced. This time he has a plan to extort the nations of the world by freezing the oceans. He demonstrates proof of concept by creating an iceberg in the Caribbean and sinking a ship. Which works, but… Continue reading Movie Review: The Castle of Fu Manchu

Movie Review: Beyond Obsession (1982)

Nina and Matthew share a smoke.

Movie Review: Beyond Obsession (1982) directed by Liliana Cavani aka “Beyond the Door” Matthew Jackson (Tom Berenger), an American oil worker in Morocco, takes a trip to Marrakesh. At a boring sex show, he meets an Italian woman, Nina (Eleanora Giorgi). She takes him to a slightly more exciting brothel, gets Matthew high, and hooks him… Continue reading Movie Review: Beyond Obsession (1982)

Movie Review: He Walked by Night

Lee explains his findings to Brennan and Jones.

Movie Review: He Walked by Night (1948) directed by Alfred Werker Los Angeles, California, late 1945. An LAPD patrol car spots a man standing in front of a closed electronics store. He hurriedly walks away, but the patrol officer follows and asks him questions. When the man is asked for identification, he instead pulls a gun… Continue reading Movie Review: He Walked by Night

Movie Review: Street Sisters

Painted Woman shows little affection for the Boy.

Movie Review: Street Sisters (1974) directed by Arthur Roberson (aka Black Hooker) Painted Woman (Sandra Alexandra) grew up poor on the farm of Grandpa (Jeff Burton) and Grandma (Kathryn Jackson). Grandpa is a hard man, for all that he’s a preacher on the side and spouts Bible talk. Grandma is well-meaning, but goes along to get… Continue reading Movie Review: Street Sisters

Movie Review: The Man with the Iron Fists

The Blacksmith checks out his new fists.

Movie Review: The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) directed by RZA Jungle Village is a lawless town, inhabited by various clans (most named after animals) that engage in frequent turf wars. The Blacksmith (RZA) is one of the few important neutral parties. He uses his skills to make superior weaponry for anyone who can pay… Continue reading Movie Review: The Man with the Iron Fists

Movie Review: I Walked With a Zombie

Betsy meets her patient.

Movie Review: I Walked With a Zombie (1943) directed by Jacques Tourneur It’s a particularly cold and snowy winter in Ottawa, so recently graduated Canadian nurse Betsy Connell (Frances Dee) is quite willing to be hired for private nursing duty to take place on the island of San Sebastian in the West Indies. On the ship… Continue reading Movie Review: I Walked With a Zombie

Movie Review: Firecracker (1981)

Susanne fends off some hotel thieves. This isn't the most famous fight scene in the movie, but I pretend to be a family friendly blog.

Movie Review: Firecracker (1981) directed by Cirio H. Santiago Susanne Carter (Jillian Kesner) is a martial arts instructor from California looking for her missing sister Bonny (Carolyn Smith), a photographer who was going by her professional name of “Vanessa” when she disappeared in the Philippines. According to bar-with-rooms-upstairs owner Pete (Pete Cooper), she hasn’t been… Continue reading Movie Review: Firecracker (1981)

Movie Review: Lethal Weapon

Murtaugh and Riggs take a while to warm to each other.

Movie Review: Lethal Weapon (1987) directed by Richard Donner It’s Christmas time in the big city, and it seems the half-naked Amanda Hunsaker (Jackie Swanson) has already been partying a little too hardy as she takes a swan dive from her apartment balcony. Toxicology reports however reveal that her drugs were tampered with, and that makes… Continue reading Movie Review: Lethal Weapon

Movie Review: 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End

Cho-san is about to suffer retirony.

Movie Review: 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008) directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi When Kenji Endo (Toshiaka Karisawa) was a teenager, he loved rock music, especially “20th Century Boy” by T. Rex. He thought rock, and in particular his own music, could change the world. But some twenty years on in the late 1990s,… Continue reading Movie Review: 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End