88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Monkey Kung Fu (1979)
Wei Chung is a newcomer to prison and immediately starts fighting with Ma Siu Tien, a one eyed old man who is his cellmate. The Ma Siu Tien repeatedly defeats him and on the night before he’s to be executed, he gives the young man half of a medal, telling him that there’s a great […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: F/X (1986) and F/X 2 (1991)
F/X (1986) The unsolicited screenplay was written by actor Gregory Fleeman and documentarian Robert T. Megginson and they’d never tried to sell a movie before. When producer Jack Wiener first read it, they told him they saw it as a made-for-TV movie, but he encouraged them to make it into an actual film, which he […]
TROMA BLU RAY RELEASE: Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
I may have gone on record numerous times of my intense displeasure with most Troma productions, but this was actually produced by The institute, a production company formed by George, Craig A. Colton and Robert Tinnell, and distributed by Troma. After the earthquake that’s always been prophecized that will destroy the coastline of California finally […]
CANNON MONTH: The Assisi Underground (1985)
During World War II, Alexander Ramati worked as a war journalist, entering Assisi with the Allied forces where he met Father Rufino Niccacci, whose Franciscan Monastery of San Damiano in Assisi worked to give Jewis people during World War II new identities and hid them from the Germans, which is much different than how so […]
CANNON MONTH: Déjà Vu (1985)
Based on the novel Always by Trevor Meldal-Johnsen, this is all about Gregory (Nigel Terry), a writer who believes that he was reincarnated and that his fiancee Maggie (Jaclyn Smith) was once his doomed ballerina love in a past life. What takes this movie from somewhat boring to Cannon magic is Shelley Winters, who plays a […]
CANNON MONTH: Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Only with Cannon can you have the sequel be the prequel when it was supposed to be the first movie. The Joseph Zito-made Missing In Action was considered to be the better of the two movies, so this one was turned into the second movie, but everything worked out pretty OK. This was directed by Lance […]
CANNON MONTH: The Ambassador (1984)
Somehow, Golan and Globus tried to make 52 Pick-Up three times. First time around, they thought Joe Don Baker would be the star — thanks Austin Trunick — then they hired Elmore Leonard to adapt his book. He’s not on the final credits of this movie, but said, “Menahem Golan hired me to adapt my novel, […]
CANNON MONTH: Hot Resort (1985)
Hot Resort is an American Lemon Popsicle-style movie without the strangeness of The Last American Teen Virgin. I feel like I could stop writing here, but let’s trudge on. Directed by John Robins, who worked on The Benny Hill Show which had to have served him well in this film, and co-written by Robins, Boaz Davidson (who, yes, made […]
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL: Wild Men (2021)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When […]
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