Junesploitation 2021: Pennies From Heaven (1981)
June 20: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie — is musicals! For the exact same reasons why I find Pennies from Heaven to be a success, I can see why it failed at the box office. Pennies from Heaven was Steve Martin’s first dramatic role in a film. After watching […]
Karate Raider (1995)
Jake Turner (Ronald L. Marchini, who co-wrote and co-directed this) is on a rescue mission to liberate Jennifer Boyden, a DEA agent and the daughter of his old sergeant, who is being held by Pike (Joe Meyer, who has been in a bunch of Marchini’s films), an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia. I mean, what […]
Forgotten Warrior (1986)
Man, this movie has some alternate titles. In France, they call it U.S. Warrior. In Spain, Traición a un Soldado or Betrayal of a Warrior. Greece? O Hamenos Polemistis (The Lost Warrior). In the UK, they call this Forgotten Warrior. But in West Germany, this gets my favorite title: Commander Rainbow. Steve Parrish (Ron Marchini) was escaping a POW camp when […]
Dragon’s Quest (1983) and Ninja Warriors (1985)
After making his debut in Murder in the Orient (1974) with Leo Fong (Kill Point) and finding a home in our public domain hearts with Death Machines (1976), Ron Marchini retreated from the film industry to concentrate on training and writing martial arts books with Leo Fong, as well as becoming a go-to arts teacher. […]
Death Machines (1976): A Third Look
Thanks to Mill Creek box sets, we’ve enjoyed this Ron Marchini flick three times: November 28, 2020, courtesy of Herbert P. Caine for our Mill Creek Sci-Fi Invasion box set blowout, on August 5, 2020, courtesy of Sam the Bossman for our Mill Creek Savage Cinema round up, and again on February 5, 2021, for […]
Murder in the Orient (1974)
There’s nothing quite like Mill Creek’s multiple box set reissues of the epic Death Machines to inspire this first review in our two-day celebration of the eleven films of Ron Marchini. Yeah, we love yah, Leo Fong and Ron Marchini. And it’s great to revisit with you after all these VHS-years in your dual-feature film […]
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