KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Mr. Majestyk (1974)
Directed by Richard Fleischer (Compulsion, Fantastic Voyage, Soylent Green, Mandingo, The Jazz Singer) and written by Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Out of Sight), this film finds our pally Charles Bronson playing Vincent Majestyk, an ex-con, former U.S. Army Ranger instructor and current watermelon farmer who just wants to get his crop in on time. Bobby Kopas (Paul Koslo, Vanishing Point) tries […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET
From Movietown, their privately-owned studio outside Hong Kong, the Shaw Brothers produced some of the most incredible movies of all time. Now, Arrow Video has carefully curated and gorgeously presented a selection of all-time Shaw Brothers classics in their Shaw Scope box set. With twelve Shaw Brothers films included — each in high definition (1080p) blu ray […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET: Dirty Ho (1979)
Master Wang (Gordon Liu) is really the eleventh prince of Manchuria in disguise, trying to discover which of the other fourteen heirs to the throne are trying to kill him. He’s pretending to be a jewelry dealer which brings him into the world of jewel thief Dirty Ho (Wong Yue). Also, Wang is such a good […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET: Crippled Avengers (1978)
Released in the U.S. as Mortal Combat and The Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms, this is the story of how Chu Twin and his son Chu Cho Chang have started a reign of terror. It all begins when Chu Twin returns home to find his wife murdered and his son critcally injured, with his […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET: Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This Shaw Brothers film originally was on our site on May 8, 2021. Now that Arrow Video’s absolutely essential Shaw Scope set is out, we’re checking out the best possible version of this movie available. Check out how you can get this box below. The Venom Mob had been in Shaw Brothers movies […]
Philippine War Week II: Invasion Cambodia, aka Intrusion: Cambodia (1983)
“There ain’t gonna be no rematch.” — Apollo Creed, telling you there won’t be a “Philippine War Week III” Thank god. The last and final, ever, Philippine war flick reviewed on this site (well, sans the idiotic Commando Invasion snafu that led us to review it, twice, this week). We started this nonsense four months […]
Philippine War Week II: Commando Invasion (1986): Again?
Well, it had to end sometime. Two weeks (the last one was during the first week of August) and 48 films. Sure, there’s oh so much more Vietnam war raging in the South Pacific — and just as many jungle-based sci-fi off-shoots, such as Reb Brown starring in Bruno Mattei’s Robowar. But we just can’t, […]
Philippine War Week II: Final Mission (1984)
Richard Young. Only 50 credits to his resume, but what a bunch of films: Night Call Nurses (1972), Inferno in Paradise (1974), Cocaine Cowboys (1979), High Risk (1981), The Ice Pirates (1984), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) — and don’t forget Saigon Commandos (1988), which, you guess it, pinches footage off the earlier […]
Philippine War Week II: The Devastator (1986)
Ol’ Uncle Cirio, he of the one hundred directing credits beginning in 1955 and ending in 2014. Hey, wait a minute . . . we lost Cirio H. Santiago in 2008. As it turns out: Cirio’s final film was Bloodfist 2050 (2005) — the ninth film in the Bloodfist series, if you’re keeping track of […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET: The Boxer from Shantung (1972)
In short, Ma Yung Cheng leaves behind the poverty of Shantung for the corrupt city of Shanghai, a place where he becomes the first Chinese fighter to defeat a professional Russian wrestler (Mario Milano, who was born in Italy, started wrestling in Venezuela and became a star in Australia), only to find that the fame that […]
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