This is where the Cannon of the 60s and 70s would meet the Cannon of the 80s.

Distributed by the Dewey-Friedland Cannon, this film was directed and produced by the men who would take Cannon into our hearts: Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Based on the hijacking of a flight by terrorists and the mission that freed the hostages known as Operation Entebbe, this movie nearly feels like a documentary.

Originally intended to be a larger budget Hollywood to be made shortly after the actual events with Steve McQueen in the main role, that project died and that’s when the Cannon boys of the 80s came in. They  recreated Uganda’s Entebbe Airport and acquired several realistic scale models of the Ugandan Air Force MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighters. Even better, because this wa sproduced with the co-operation of the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli government, three of the four Hercules transports from the actual event are in this movie. The footage is so realistic that Cannon sold te rights to several documentaries to use it.

Anyone in the movie spoke their native langauge, while an international cut was made with just English being spoken.

This same story was turned into two TV movies: the Irving Krischner-directed Raid on Entebbe — with Charles Bronson as Brigadier General Dan Shomron, Yaphet Kotto as Idi Amin, John Saxon as Major General Benny Peled and Robert Loggia as Yigal Allon and Marvin J. Chomsky’s Victory at Entebbe, which had Helmut Berger as Wilfried Böse, Linda Blair as Chana Vilnofsky, Kirk Douglas as Hershel Vilnofsky, Richard Dreyfuss as Colonel Yoni Netanyahu, Helen Hayes as Etta Grossman Wise, Anthony Hopkins as Yitzhak Rabin, Burt Lancaster as Shimon Peres and Elizabeth Taylor as Edra Vilnofsky. Man — look at those casts!

Golan’s film has a pretty awesome list of talent, though. There’s Klaus Kinski as terorrist Wilfried Bose, Sybil Danning as one of his followers and Yitzchak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Yigal Allon and Gad Yaakobi — all Israeli government officials — as themselves.

This movie was actually a pretty big success at the box officer and with critics, as Golan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

I love Menahem stories and they may not be true all the time, but this one, well…when one of the cargo pilots told him that he was too tired to do another taken, Golan grabbed a prop Uzi and put it to the man’s temple and forced him to go back into the cockpit.

I have no idea how this site has had a recap of drag race docs and a week of drag race movies and this doc never made it in. How many drag racing movies did the 70s have? How many did it need?

Directed by Bill Kimberlin, an Industrial Light and Magic visual effects editor, this was shot at Fremont Raceway and really has a lot of great footage of that era’s racers, as well as an interview with Ed Pink about the oil fire incident that claimed the life of John “the Zookeeper” Mulligan at the U.S. Nationals in 1969.

Drag racing used to be such a big thing in the 70s. I remember commercials for it and getting beyond excited. There was even a 1977 arcade game called Drag Race and the Activision game for the Atari 2600 Dragster. That’s how much people loved it. Just look at all the films on our list above. While I’m not a fan of the sport, it was fun to take a spin through its past.

Madison (Anna Hutchinson, Jules from The Cabin In the Woods) finds out that her two work friends are getting married, so she jumps into wedding planner mode, finding a destination spot for cheap at a remote island vineyard in New Zealand. Of course, the reason it’s so inexpensive is that the owner, David Westhaven (Josh McKenzie) was planning it as his own wedding.

Will these two end up together? I mean, how many of these movies have you watched?

Directed by Aidee Walker and written by John Banas, I watched this hung over on a Sunday morning and it had no demands on me. It was a friendly face as I tried to get my brains back in my head and yes, it was predictable, which is more than I can say for taking edibles, then wondering why they aren’t working, then eating more which is definitely the worst thing you can do. I mean, jumping back into a relationship on the rebound is bad, but take my advice. Wait for the high to kick in and if it doesn’t, it just wasn’t the ideal time for it. Love is kind of the same way.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Oh man. Celebrity exorcist Rachel Stavis brings together Jodie Sweetin from Full House, former basketball player Metta Sandiford-Artest (formerly Ron Artest, formerly Metta World Peace) and Moesha star Shar Jackson to investigate the haunted world of Los Angeles.

I’m pretty amazed by how into this Sweetin is. The comedy is Artest being the tallest one and the most frightened by all of the supernatural events the trio finds itself confronting. Of course, nobody has their soul ripped from their body or dies — sorry for the spoiler — but if you’ve watched enough ghost haunter reality TV, you know exactly what you are getting into.

That said, I’m all for Tubi grabbing more celebrities and making them challenge all the powers of Hell.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Originally known as Jetski, this movie finds Nat (Holly Earl) and her boyfriend Tom (Jack Trueman) on a vacation with their friends Tyler (Malachi Pullar-Latchman), Milly (Catherine Hannay) and Greg (Thomas Flynn). She’s the only one of them that seems to have any sense of morals, so when they decide to steal some jetskis and head out into open water, you’ll cheer on the shark that finds them.

They’re dumb before the shark even gets there, racing the jetskis at one another and causing an accident with numerous injuries, stranding them with no coast in sight. And then, there’s that dorsal fin, and the shark saves us all.

Director James Nunn worked was the second unit director on 47 Meters Down and 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, so he knows how to shoot a shark attack scene, even one that’s done with CGI. Writer Nick Saltrese has experience with soap operas, so that gives some dramatic gravitas to the film, as Tom hasn’t exactly been loyal to Nat.

It’s well shot, the gore isn’t bad and the movie flies by. What more can you ask from a free shark movie in 2022?

You can watch this on Tubi.

Kerry (Elohim Peña) can’t get over the death of his wife Evelyn (Kulani Kai)– a death he caused in an accident — and funeral home owner Charles (Steven Alonte) struggles to help him. As he goes to bed that evening, he’s visited by the Psychopomp (Alonte), a spiritual guide who hopes that the three stories he has to tell can guide him to peace and Evelyn’s soul to the next world.

“Spellbound High Monster Hop” is about the young love between Caroline and Lonnie and the devil mask-wearing man who come between them; “Answers” is about a psychic (N. Meridian) being called in to catch a serial killer (Peter Konx) and “Until Forever” is the tale of a vampire (Ben Shaul) tired of being alive and a young girl (Jillian Ebling) who has a fatal disease.

I liked the idea that director Danny Villanueva Jr. and writer J. Anthony Ramos have put together a film that uses the anthology format to deal with issues of death and loss. It’s an interesting take.

I Dream of a Psychopomp is available now on the Terror Films Channel and digital platforms. It will be on the KIngs of Horror Channel on August 26 and you can also watch it on Tubi. To learn more, visit the official web site.

After recently moving to New York City, Laura’s (Laura Dooling) new roommate Elizabeth is already dead and she’s left alone in the apartment to deal with the emotional and supernatural aftermath.

With the help of Detectives Miller (Frank Wihbey) and Richards (Adrienne King, who is — of course — Alice from Friday the 13th), as well as her ex-boyfriend Christian (Bryan Manley Davis), she has to figure out who left the symbols under Elizabeth’s bed and murdered her before she’s the next victim.

The movie starts with Christian trying to explain to the cops why three dead bodies were in her apartment and also why Laura is gone before rewinding back to its story. That’s a huge spoiler delivered by the actual film that we’re about to watch. That said, Dooling is great in the film and her fears are quite believable, especially once the power goes out.

Director Kurtis Spieler has become well-known for overseeing the dubbing and assembling the footage to create the patchwork cult film New York Ninja. He also made the movies The Devil’s Well and Sheep Skin.

The Dead Girl in Apartment 03 premieres on August 9 on digital and on special edition DVD and blu ray November 22 from Wild Eye Releasing.