VISUAL VENGEANCE BLU RAY REVIEW: L.A. AIDS Jabber (1994)
UPDATE: You can watch this movie on Tubi. Just the name L.A. AIDS Jabber is going to offend you or make you want to see this or perhaps even both. Originally released as Jabber in the 90s in the most limited of releases — in the thousands and all self-distributed by creator Drew Godderis — this is the story […]
AVA: A Twist In the Road (2021)
I love when filmmakers send me their movies and ask me to watch them. It’s always a daunting proposition — all I do is throw a few hundred words at something that may have been their life’s work, you know? That said, when Catherane Skillen sent me a copy of her film AVA: A Twist In […]
CANNON MONTH: The Mummy Lives (1993)
You may notice that after Cannon breaks up, both Menahem and Yoram go to the works of Edgar Allan Poe — this is based on the story “Some Words with A Mummy” — and if you think for a second, it makes sense, as Poe has a great name for horror but is also dead […]
Prey (2022)
In case I never told you, I love Predator. I love the whole series. Well, the ones with Aliens are just OK and that last one should have never been released, but still, I love the Yautja and whatever they choose to do in movies. But I was worried about this one. How many series have […]
CANNON MONTH 2: American Ninja V (1993)
This was not originally intended to be part of the American Ninja franchise — the working title was Little Ninja Man — and Cannon Pictures almost name it American Dragons. David Bradley plays Joe Kastle instead of the Sean Davidson character from American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt and American Ninja 4: The Annihilation. He takes on […]
They/Them (2022)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Emily Fear is a librarian in Western PA. You can hear her weekly on the women’s wrestling podcast Grit & Glitter, available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all major platforms. There is an incredible scene late in the film adaptation of Emily Danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post where Cameron (Chloe Grace Moretz) […]
CANNON MONTH 2: No Place to Hide (1992)
Director and writer Richard Danus only directed this one movie — he wrote a lot for TV, like on Serpico and Star Trek: The Next Generation — and somehow, Cannon got it. Drew Barrymore plays Tinsel Harvey — this name feels like a porn star’s or a hardboiled detective’s love interest — and when her ballerina sister […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Street Knight (1993)
Albert Magnoli directed Purple Rain, American Anthem and took over for Andrei Konchalovsky — but was not named for his work — on Tango & Cash. It’s the second lead for American Kenpo fighter Jeff Speakman, who was a direct to video regular. Speakman plays Jeff Barrett, a former cop who once failed to save a hostage from […]
CANNON MOVIE 2: American Samurai (1992)
Seriously, of all the Cannon movies I’ve watched in the second Cannon month, this has to be my favorite. It takes the Enter the Dragon template and then goes absolutely insane with it. All hail Sam Firstenberg, the director of not just this, but Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Fifty/Fifty (1992)
Jake Wyer (Peter Weller) and Sam French (Robert Hays) are mercenaries who have been recruited by CIA agent Martin (director Charles Martin Smith) to overthrow a power-mad Tenggaran dictator named Bosavi (Dom Magwili). Weller and Hays were not the first actors picked for the film, as originally this was a Chuck Norris and Michael Dudikoff team-up, […]
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