Dear God No (2011)
So if you were ever saying to yourself, “I wish someone would make a socially undeeming biker movie that brings back the old bikerspolitation movies of the past but has no morals whatsoever,” you’re in luck. I’ve found a movie for you. The Impalers were on a rape and murder spree when they barely escaped […]
Killing Car (1993)
Also known as Femme Dangereuse (Dangerous Woman), this Jean Rollin-directed movie is all about an Asian woman known as the Car Woman. This role was specifically written for model Tiki Tsang, who is actually Australian. Rollin worked on this film until he grew too ill to complete it, then edited it years later*. The Car […]
King of the Mountain (1981)
Before Paul Walker and Vin Diesel’s exploits in The Fast and the Furious, there was Harry Hamlin and Joseph Bottoms in this film that first chronicled the real life street racing communities of Los Angeles. However, in this tale, they don’t pull a “Point Break” and use their street racing exploits to front a crime […]
Crash! (1977)
I have a real weakness for Charles Band’s movies. I think any study of the past articles on this site will point to this, but today’s example is 1977’s Crash!, a movie where Sue Lyon plays a wife who has to deal with a jealous husband played by José Ferrer who keeps trying to kill her. […]
The Last Run (1971)
Before Vin Diesel mounted up a Mitsubishi in the The Fast and the Furious franchise and before Jason Statham slid into the cockpit of a BMW for Luc Beeson’s The Transporter franchise, there was George C. Scott (The Changling) in this Richard Fleischer-directed (Fantastic Voyage! The New Centurions! Soylent Green! Mr. Majestyk! . . . […]
Rad (1986)
If there was one movie that was hard to rent at my neighborhood mom and pop video store, this would be it.* Leonard Maltin gave this movie his dreaded BOMB review, comparing it to 1950’s car race and 1970’s roller disco movie films. Yeah, Leonard. Wondering why everyone liked it so much? Shot in Alberta, […]
The Last American Hero (1973)
Prohibition bootlegging of the 1930s gave birth to NASCAR: that’s a fact. And one of those bootleggers — and the sport’s biggest success stories — was Junior Jackson, who got his start behind the wheel hauling illegal liquor through the North Carolina foothills. The script by Williams Roberts (The Magnificent Seven, The Devil’s Brigade, one […]
The Changin’ Times of Ike White (2020)
Ike White is one of those musical obscurities, like Jim Morrison’s doppelganger from 1974, The Phantom, or “Sugar Man” Rodriquez, dubbed as a Bob Dylan doppelganger (ironically, both are from Detroit), that you won’t read about in Rolling Stone Record Guides or musicpedias. Ike White is an artist — like unheralded R&B soul artists Gil […]
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