Son of Kaiju Day Marathon is tomorrow!
We’re doing another day of kaiju madness. Yes, an entire day of giant monster movies last week wasn’t enough, so we’re getting excited about Godzilla vs. King Kong starting on HBO Max on March 31. This time, we’re going deep with kaiju from around the world as well as some articles about the history of giant […]
Cool It Carol (1970)
According to the opening credits, “this story is true but actual names and places are fictitious.” That’s because Pete Walker read a story in the tabloid News of the World and got inspired. And unlike movies of this era like Permissive and More, the degenerate lifestyle he envisioned wasn’t tragic. Joe (Robin Askwith, the Confessions of… series) and Carol […]
Witness Infection (2021)
Two rival mob families — the Serrellis and the Miolas — in the Witness Protection Program have been sent to the same city to hide. So life is about to change for Carlo Serrelli (Robert Belushi, the son of Jim) whose father had kept him out of the family business while his brother Dominic (Bret […]
Summer Daydream (2021)
The art of film is to not just toss images on the screen — as so many aspiring indie filmmakers do. The craft of film is to embed your soul on the screen; to allow the audience to connect with your heart. Clark, the young filmmaker of Summer Daydream, comes to learn that lesson: he […]
Zindy the Swamp Boy (1973)
The entire Cardona movie must have come together on this one, because Sr. directed it (you may have seen his movies Night of the Bloody Apes, Santa Claus and Las Mujeres Panteras — at least I hope you have!), Jr. wrote it (you totally should see his movies Tintorera, Guyana: Cult of the Damned and The Bermuda Triangle) and III stars in it […]
Switchblade Sisters (1975)
So easy to love. So hard to kill. Man, if there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, put Switchblade Sisters on the list. Maggie (Joanna Nail, the mother of The Visitor!) has moved to a new high school run by the Silver Daggers and their women, the Dagger Debs. Maggie gets caught up in an arrest and […]
No One Would Tell (1996)
Fred Savage was an ebullient teen, someone who seemingly could never do wrong until in this film, he becomes a high school wrestler who gets on the gas and goes bonkers on Candace Cameron. Yes, there comes a time in every actor’s life to do a made-for-TV ripped from the headlines movie. This one is […]
Racket Girls (1951)
Umberto Scalli (Timothy Farrell, Test Tube Babies, Glen or Glenda) is in charge of women’s wrestling shows, which covers up his crime life, which includes racketeering, bookmaking and prostitution. Yet now, the police and the mob are both after him. Real pro wrestlers Peaches Page, Rita Martinez and Clara Mortensen all play themselves in this. So does […]
Angel (1984)
Man, Angel is pretty much everything I want in a movie. It’s filled with a cast of people I adore as well as presenting an alternative universe Los Angeles that is at once filled with scum and yet presents the nicest group of prostitutes that you’ll ever meet. Foremost amongst them is Molly Stewart, who is […]
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
I have many movie loves, but seriously, juvenile delinquency movies are where it’s at. A Columbia stock actor and dialogue director, Fred F. Sears made a ton of movies, starting with the Charlie Starrett Westerns and Blondie series. He also made the Blackhawk serial and worked as a steady contract director for notorious cheap producer Sam Katzman, […]
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