Revenge of the Shogun Women (1977)
Mei-Chun Chang made another 3D kung fu movie we covered, Dynasty, so we were super excited to get this movie, also known as 13 Golden Nuns. Thirteen women are ravaged by bandits and the rules of the time state that they must go to a convent. What the rules did not state was that they would spend […]
9th Old School Kung Fu Fest: The Old 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 […]
9th Old School Kung Fu Fest: Interview with OSKFF 2021 Programmer Grady Hendrix
Old School Kung Fu Fest 2021 Programmer Grady Hendrix is no stranger to this site. After all, we just covered his book These Fists Break Bricks and did an entire week around his Paperbacks from Hell and interviewed him about the influence of paperbacks on the movies that we adore so much. We had the chance to speak […]
Philippine War Week II: The Last American Soldier (1988)
Directed and written by the Italian director Ignazio Dolce, who went from being an actor to directing six films of his own (the others are L’ammazzatina, Last Platoon, Leathernecks, Last Flight to Hell and La Spina del Papavero), this movie finds its hero Sgt. Roger “Commander” Craig — yes, the guy’s name is is a rank higher than his actual […]
Philippine War Week II: No Dead Heroes (1986)
The most comforting aspect of these Philippine First Blood and Commando inversions is that you can always count on Mike Monty, Nick Nicholson, and Paul Vance to show up as the ubiquitously evil CIA, KGB, or General (from either the Ruskie or Yank side) with one hand over their heart — and the other in […]
Philippine War Week II: Mission Terminate (1987)
We come here, not to bury Philippine Namsplotation films, but to praise Richard Norton. That’s right, kids: it’s another B&S About Movies film-geek fandom joint. Aussie actor Richard Norton got his start in Chuck Norris’s The Octagon (1980) and Forced Vengeance (1982), contributing to multiple episodes of CBS-TV’s Walker, Texas Ranger, starring in Robert Clouse’s […]
Philippine War Week II: Platoon the Warriors (1987)
Take the 1984 Filipino movie Diegong Bayong, get some footage from Hong Kong, throw it in a blender and boom, you have Platoon Warrior or Platoon the Warriors and yes, if you’re wondering if this has something to do with Godfrey Ho of course it does. Jack Barlow (Anthony Alonzo) has lost his son, father and mother […]
Achoura (2021)
If you enjoy the cultural horror twists of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro — not so much the U.S. studio tentpoles of Mimic and Hellboy, but of Pan’s Laybrinth, The Devil’s Backbone, and Cronos — you’ll enjoy this France-Morocco co-production that first appeared in the overseas theatrical marketplace in 2018. Described by its studio as […]
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