10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: The Bravest Revenge (1970)
The second movie in The Swordsman of All Swordsmen trilogy, this is about Shi Fang Yi (Polly Shang-kuan) and her family, who work to avenge the murder of her father at the hands of Chau Mutien (Yi Yuan). They spend five years under five masters and Hsih Fung Yi becomes the mistress of the double daggers, […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: Night Orchid (1983)
Chu Liuxiang icomes from a series of novels by Taiwanese writer Gu Long and hiname literally means lingering fragrance. He steals from the rich, gives to the poor and serves justice as a bandit. A master of vertical surface running and leaping — Qinggong — and the metal hand fan, he has never taken the […]
10TH ANNUAL OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST: The Valiant Ones (1975)
Corrupt officials have taken bribes and allowed a band of Japanese pirates — which includes Han Yingjie (Han Ying-chieh), Hakatatsu (Sammo Hung) and Simon Yuen as a bald pirate with a bo staff — to terrorize the South China coast. A small band of fighters, led by husband and wife Wu Ji-Yuan (Pai Ying) and Wu […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
April 21: Gone Legitimate — A movie featuring an adult film actor in a mainstream role. Marco Ferreri is probably best known for his film La Grande Bouffe. Here, he sets a film in an end-of-the-world-feeling New York City, a place of only the strange and the rats, a place where Gerard Lafayette (Gérard Depardieu) lives […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Murder at the Murder Mystery Party (2023)
An aspiring actress named Clara Edwards (Savannah Lee Smith, Gossip Girl) has just arrived from Texas — to quote Poison, “She stepped off the bus out into the city streets. Just a small town girl with her whole life packed in a suitcase by her feet. But somehow the lights didn’t shine as bright as they did on […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: The Canyons (2013)
April 21: Gone Legitimate — A movie featuring an adult film actor in a mainstream role. Producer Braxton Pope, writer Bret Easton Ellis and director Paul Schrader had the movie Bait get canceled due to money and then decided to make another one that was crowd funded. Paul Schrader. Making a crowd funded movie. They raised $159,015 […]
Night Gallery season 2 episode 15: Green Fingers/The Funeral/The Tune in Dan’s Cafe
There are three stories in this episode, which often feels like too much, but I promise to be open minded as we get close to the end of the second season of Night Gallery. “Green Fingers” was directed by John Badham from a Rod Serling script, which was based on an R.C. Cook short story. Elsa […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: 10 (1979)
April 21: Gone Legitimate — A movie featuring an adult film actor in a mainstream role. During his 42nd birthday party, composer George Webber (Dudley Moore) learns that he’s not aging well. Despite the love of his girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Julie Andrews), he’s more obsessed with youth and beauty, whether he sees it through a telescope […]
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