Friend of the World (2020)
As a global war begins to burn itself out, a young filmmaker named Diane (Alexandra Slade) is trapped in a military bunker with the increasingly unhinged General Gore (Nick Young). That’s a simple explanation for this film’s plot but it gets much stranger than that sentence. Director and writer Brian Patrick Butler has made something […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Hapkido (1972)
Set in 1934 Japanese occupied Korea, Hapkido starts with Yu Ying (Angela Mao), Kao Chang (Cater Wong) and Fan Wei (Sammo Hung, graduating from getting his ass kicked by Mao and being on the same side; he also choreographed the fights) trying to start a school where they can teach hapkido, a martial art that uses […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Lady Whirlwind (1972)
Angela Mao worked with director Huang Feng to create a series of martial arts films that are well-considered like Deadly China Doll, When Taekwondo Strikes, Hapkido and this movie. She’s best known for her appearance in Enter the Dragon as Bruce Lee’s doomed sister. After a career as a hard-fighting star, she moved to New York City […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: In 80 Betten um die Welt (1976)
Around the World In 80 Beds is a collaboration between Erwin C. Dietrich (who took all the credit; he also made Secrets of a French Maid, Six Swedish Girls in a Boarding School, She Devils of the SS and you can get a feel for what he specialized in by those titles; Franco made 17 movies for him) and […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Juliette (1970) / De Sade’s Juliette (1975)
Ah, welcome to the part of watching Jess Franco movies where there are just rumors and hints of films unfinished or finished, screening once and never showing up again. Then again, with as many movies as Franco was part of and the fact that things keep showing up, I know that so much of his […]
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