You Can’t Kill Meme (2021)
A political meme — you’ve seen them if you’re on social media — is a purposefully designed visual framing of a position that is created to deliver an inside joke, trigger an emotional reaction and create a sense of belonging. Memes are an entirely new form of political communication and attempts to use them for good […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET: Five Shaolin Masters (1974)
After suffering numerous defeats at the hands of the Qing kung fu experts, five patriots return to the ruined Shaolin temple — that burned down at the end of Shaolin Temple — to perfect their kung fu and take revenge. Hu De-Di (David Chiang), Cai De-Zhong (Ti Lung), Fang Da-Hong (Mang Fei), Ma Chao-Xing (Alexander Fu Sheng) […]
9th Old School Kung Fu Fest: Shaolin Kung Fu (1974)
The Old School Kung Fu Fest is back and the Museum of the Moving Image and Subway Cinema will co-present eight newly restored films and one fan favorite classic by Kuo on glorious 35mm. Four titles will be available exclusively online, December 6–13, and another five films for in-person big-screen viewing at MoMI, December 10–12. To see any […]
9th Old School Kung Fu Fest: World of Drunken Master (1979)
The Old School Kung Fu Fest is back and the Museum of the Moving Image and Subway Cinema will co-present eight newly restored films and one fan favorite classic by Kuo on glorious 35mm. Four titles will be available exclusively online, December 6–13, and another five films for in-person big-screen viewing at MoMI, December 10–12. To see any […]
Death to Metal (2019)
After a freak accident, an already disturbed priest is transformed into a mutated killing machine on a mission to wipe out anyone that loves heavy metal. I mean, with a concept like that, how can I not watch — much less not love — this movie? The tagline is the nail in the upside down […]
Philippine War Week II: Super Platoon (1987)
This Godfrey Ho Philippine Namsploitationer to cash in on all things John Rambo is actually a pre-John Rambo Hong Kong action-joint known as Black Warrior by Tomas Tang. Tang, by way of his Filmark International Studios, is a name you see oft-mentioned on Ho’s end product since a lot of Tang’s stuff, such as Devil’s […]
Philippine War Week II: Mission War Flame (1987)
Godfrey Ho. He’s Joe Livingstone. He’s Willie Palmer. He’s Charles Lee. And here, he is Bruce Lambert behind the camera and Eric Coleman behind the typewriter. You’ll also notice the name of Sally Nicholls credited for “dialog” on many of Godfrey’s films. Well, someone had to thread together Ho’s piecemeal efforts into coherency. And she’s […]
Exclusive interview with Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush should need no introduction, but if we must, let’s just say that he’s a very Zelig-like figure when it comes to the movies that we love on this site. After a childhood in Fort Lee, NJ he attended the New York University Film School and had Martin Scorsese as a teacher and faculty […]
Philippine War Week II: Soldier Terminators (1988)
Leave it to Godfrey Ho to mash-up Sly Stallone and Arnie Schwarzenegger into one film. But not First Blood and Commando: Rambo and The Terminator. Only one problem. Well, there’s more than one problem with this film, but the main one: there’s no “Terminators,” as you know them, in this film. Luckily, Godfrey didn’t put […]
Philippine War Week II: Rescue Team (1983)
Jim Goldman is also Jun Gallardo, the director of fifty plus movies like SFX Retaliator and The Firebird Conspiracy. Are you surprised that he’s recruited Richard Harrison for this film mission? If you’ve watched as many movies where the Philippines become the new Vietnam, you’re not. Also known as Operation Coleman — Frank Coleman is the man who […]
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