The Uranium Conspiracy (1978)
You know how I always say that these Eurospy movies are like the UN? How about this one, which is an Israeli/German/Italian movie co-directed by Gianfranco Baldanello (Danger!! Death Ray) and one of my favorite insane people, Menahem Golan — the man who would soon enough direct the magnum opus The Apple. Who would star, some […]
Spy Hard (1996)
If you hate the films of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer — Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, Vampires Suck and so on — blame this movie. This was their first script and it was directed by Jason’s dad Rick, who had met star Leslie Nielsen while directing his Bad Golf VHS series. Sadly, this movie […]
Remo Williams: The Prophecy (1988)
Three years after Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, this pilot was made, starring Jeffrey Meek as Remo and Roddy McDowall as Chiun. It’s based on the novella “The Day Remo Died.” Chiun feels that his student is becoming complacent, so he hires an assassin to teach him a lesson. What Chiun doesn’t know is that the […]
REPOST: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This review originally ran on May 1, 2018. Seeing as how Remo Williams is an American blue-collar James Bond, I figured that I should bring this back, while also adding some new information. After Burton’s Batman, Hollywood wanted tentpole movies that could make sequel after sequel. So why not turn to men’s paperbacks, like The Destroyer, […]
My Hindu Friend (2020)
You had us at Willem Dafoe. You know the roles: Raven Shaddock in the rock ‘ n’ roll noir Streets of Fire and lost rocker Johnny Harte in one of my personal favorites, Roadhouse 66. Then there’s the diabolical forger Eric “Rick” Masters in To Live and Die in L.A. and Sergeant Elias Gordon in […]
The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965)
If I’ve done one thing this Eurospy month, I’ve watched a ton of Lindsay Shonteff movies. This was his first spy film, although he’d eventually also make No. 1 of the Secret Service, Licensed to Love and Kill (1979) and Number One Gun. This was called Licensed to Kill in the UK, but Joseph E. Levine […]
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