Kansas City (1996)
Returning to the city of his birthplace, Robert Altman directed this tribute to the music and movies of his youth. Blondie O’Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and her low-level hood husband Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) get caught trying to steal from Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), a crime boss who works out of The Hey-Hey Club. To escape, […]
Wonder Women (1973)
Dr. Tsu (Nancy Kwan, The World of Suzie Wong) and her army of women have captured 14 of the worlds greatest athletes, selling their organs, body parts and even bodies to rich old men who want to live forever. Mike Harber (Ross Hagen, The Hellcats) is the insurance investigator who stumbles in on her mostly nude, all […]
Aces Go Places (1982)
King Kong (Sam “God of Song” Hui) is a cat burglar who wants to make good, so he teams with Albert “Baldy” Au (Karl Maka), a goofball American detective, and Superintendent Nancy Ho (Sylvia Chang), who is driven crazy by both of these foolish, yet heroic men. The first in a series of movies, Aces Go […]
Mind Games (1989)
Bob Yari has produced plenty of films, but only directed two — this one and Papa: Hemingway in Cuba. I’ll have to add this movie to two of my potential Letterboxd lists: the films of Maxwell Caulfield and movies where psychopaths engage with RVs. So, basically, the first list has this, Empire Records and Prey of […]
Clown Fear (2020)
“It’s not creepy, it’s kitschy.”— famous last words of another desert clown-cult victim Clown Fear (aka, Circus Road during production) is an affable, ‘70s retro-grindhouse flick that tears down the tents of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes and rips you through a Tobe Hooper Texas Chainsaw Massacre-inspired fun house—with a side-organ order of Steven […]
Soft Matter (2020)
It’s the ‘80s all over again. It’s The USA Network’s Commander USA’s Groovie Movies and Night Flight (check out our “Drive-In Friday” tribute) all over again. It’s an ‘80s retro-dream of renting Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case one too many times. And, based on the theatrical one-sheet’s tagline: “Everyone is a science project,” this is Weird […]
Carry On Spying (1964)
The Carry On series has 31 movies from 1958-1978, with another made in 1993), 4 holiday specials, a 13-episode TV series and 3 stage plays, all in the British music hall tradition of bawdy parody. Made on the cheap, they are the second-longest British film series, eclipsed only by James Bond. So it makes sense […]
Shatter (1974)
The last film the classic Hammer made, Shatter was also their second film with the Shaw Brothers after The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. It was directed by Michael Carreras (The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb). It starts Stuart Whitman as Shatter, a hitman who is in the midst of international chaos after killing an African […]
Live and Let Die (1973)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: An American living in London, Jennifer Upton is a freelance writer for International publishers Story Terrace and others. In addition, she has a blog where she frequently writes about horror and sci-fi called Womanycom. Fans of James Bond all have their favorite era. Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth Bond film in the franchise […]
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