Ten players on my movie All-Star team (yes, including the DH)
What would be the greatest team of fictional baseball players from movies ever? While my knowledge of baseball is limited to a lifetime of scoring games and watching Major League, I did the best I could to create a lineup. I didn’t use any real-life people who were portrayed in a film, like any of […]
Double Team (1997)
If you think of directors from the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema, Tsui Hark has to be on the list thanks to directing movies like Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain and the Once Upon a Time in China series, as well as producing The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Black Mask amongst many others. In the […]
Pre-order the new issue of Drive-In Asylum!
Order now at the Etsy store! All orders ship July 15th! Drive-In Asylum #16 features an interview with the star of Larry Buchanan’s The Naked Witch and widow of S.F. Brownrigg, Libby Hall! I got to contribute a cool painting to this article. For my article this issue, I’m covering the batshit crazy French female zombie […]
Double Impact (1991)
Instead of one Jean-Claude Van Damme, why not have two? It ended up being a trope so popular that the actor would return to it several times — Replicant, Maximum Risk, even Timecop to some degree all involve multiple versions of the action star. Here, he plays Chad & Alex Wagner. Chad has grown up in Los Angeles […]
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
Corey Yuen is a Hong Kong action director, film director, producer and action choreographer known for doing the fight scenes for movies like Lethal Weapon 4, X-Men and plenty of Jet Li’s American films like Romeo Must Die, The One and The Expendables. He’s also directed Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan in Dragons Forever and helped start […]
Universal Soldier (1992)
Let’s give Roland Emmerich a break. For every single horrible movie he created like Godzilla and The Day After Tommorrow, I look back at this movie and say, “I have to forgive him. After all, he made Universal Soldier.” It was written by Richard Rothstein (who created the HBO show The Hitchhiker, Christopher Leitch and Dean Devlin, Roland’s […]
Maximum Risk (1996)
If you’re a Hong Kong director in America, your first movie is always with Van Damme. Ringo Lam, you’re up next. Originally known as The Exchange and then Bloodstone, this movie was written by Scary Movie duo Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer but not credited to them. Credit went to Larry Ferguson, who wrote the remake of […]
Kickboxer (1989)
Every time I do an in-depth film week, there comes a moment when I go from “most of these movies aren’t very good” and “they just have the same tropes over and over again” to “I love this movie!” It’s digital Stockholm Syndrome and it happens almost every time. It happened at some point during Chained […]
Sudden Death (1995)
If you live anywhere other than Pittsburgh, this movie — much like Striking Distance — is a DVD that you can find in the $1 section. Here, it’s a prized commodity, a remembrance of the Steel City in the 1990s and a time when the owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ wife decided that she wanted to […]
The Expendables 3 (2014)
When Stallone was looking for new blood to make the next Expendables movie, he looked to director Patrick Hughes, who had only made one movie and several high profile commercials at the time (he would go on to make The Hitman’s Bodyguard). That theme — of the next generation — is what this movie is all about. […]
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