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Week 8 (Aug 9 – 15) – Trash-Mex picks Hey, Mario Almada was in over 300 movies, someone’s gotta help us find the good ones! Since 2010 Armando Hernandez has been one of the only people discussing Mexican genre pictures through his website trashmex dot com and the Trash-Mex podcast with co-host Joey Diaz. There’s ORO AUTÉNTICO on this list! […]
Screenshot The story follows a small-time wrestling troupe scraping by in dingy basements and grotty local venues under the guidance of good-hearted owner and promoter Red Henkel (Henry Beckman, The Brood). The undisputed star of the outfit is veteran grappler Danny “Dandy Dan” O’Neil (William Smith, who seems born for this), an aging, hard-drinking, muscle-kissing […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
Advertising executive Henry Hogan (Larry Manetti in his second appearance on the show; he was also in “Printer’s Devil“) tracks down a small New Orleans bakery called Cuzzin’s Dozens, run by an elderly voodoo practitioner named Ruby Cuzzins (Mabel King). Smelling a massive payday, Henry pitches a grand franchising scheme to turn her local treats […]
Week 8 (Aug 9 – 15) – Trash-Mex picks Hey, Mario Almada was in over 300 movies, someone’s gotta help us find the good ones! Since 2010 Armando Hernandez has been one of the only people discussing Mexican genre pictures through his website trashmex dot com and the Trash-Mex podcast with co-host Joey Diaz. There’s ORO AUTÉNTICO on this list! […]
This week, The Eliminators and Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn. We’re talking cyborgs, ninjas, Richard Moll, time travel…this week has it all. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Podcasts, Podchaser and Google Podcasts Important links: Theme song: “Strip Search” by Neal GardnerIndividual License […]
Pay or Die was released under several titles, including Devil’s Three, Mean Business and Devils Three: The Karate Killers. It’s directed by Bobby A. Suarez, an absolute ace of Philippine action cinema. While contemporaries like Cirio Santiago found wider global distribution through Roger Corman, Suarez injected his pictures with a wildly personal flavor, blending bone-crunching […]
Week 8 (Aug 9 – 15) – Trash-Mex picks Hey, Mario Almada was in over 300 movies, someone’s gotta help us find the good ones! Since 2010 Armando Hernandez has been one of the only people discussing Mexican genre pictures through his website trashmex dot com and the Trash-Mex podcast with co-host Joey Diaz. There’s ORO AUTÉNTICO on this list! […]
If the 1973 predecessor was all about high-energy high jinks and dazzling diamond escapades, Richard Lester’s The Four Musketeers pulls back the curtain into something much more raw, melancholic and deeply compelling. Written by George MacDonald Fraser (creator of the Flashman papers) and based on the timeless Alexandre Dumas classic, this second half of the […]
Tony Breda (Tony Lo Bianco) is a well-respected local in his Italian town, but he’s also a small-time crook with a massive weak spot: he completely idolizes Italo-American mobster Frankie Diomede (Lee Van Cleef), a legendary figure known as “Dio” (“God”). You’ll get it once you see the first few moments of Van Cleef in […]
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