Dune (1984)
I can’t imagine being the father of a kid who dragged you to the theater to see Dune without you knowing a single thing about it. This is a movie that spends the first ten minutes explaining the world of Dune and how important melange — spice — is, extending life, expanding consciousness and allow space […]
Philippine War Week: Devil’s Dynamite (1987)
Editor’s Note: This review ran on December 19, 2020. We’ve brought it back for our “Philippines War Week” tribute of films. Look, there’s no such person as Joe Livingstone, the director of this movie. Or William Palmer, its writer. They’re both Godfrey Ho, the Hong Kong Ed Wood who made at least eighty movies from […]
Philippine War Week: American Commandos (1985)
You have to feel bad for the Vietnam vets in this movie. They go back to Nam with the best of intentions, hoping to destroy the Golden Triangle’s drug empires, but when they get there they learn that their fellow soldiers are the ones behind it all. How did they get there? Well, Chris Mitchum […]
Philippine War Week: Deadly Commando (1982)
Also known as Suicide Force, this film comes to us from the dual directing team of Nick Cacas (Jungle Fighters and the Ron Marchini-starring Forgotten Warrior) and Segundo Ramos (who has fifty-six films to his credit, but let’s go with Eastwood and Bronson as an example, a movie that has Richard Gomez and Joey Marquez playing the two action heroes in a […]
Philippine War Week: Saigon Commandos (1988)
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Paul Andolina, whose website is Wrestling with Film, for sending this to us to express his love of Philippine war flicks. This review first ran on October 15, 2018, and we’ve brought it back . . . as our first review for our week-long “Philippines War Week” tribute that ends on […]
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
American-International Pictures follow up to The Raven, this movie reunites Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff. Adding to the trio is Basil Rathbone, giving this film an astounding cast. They’re all working from a script by Richard Matheson and direction by Jacques Tourneur, who for my money made some of the greatest horror movies ever […]
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