Starting with 1973’s Stacey and 1979’s Seven, the former director of ABC’s Wide World of Sports and innovator of instant replay, slow-motion replay and split-screen views created a world of men that can’t shoot straight and gorgeous female agents. He called his movies b-movies, not because they were lower in quality, but because he filled them with what he referred […]
I’ve just spent an entire week watching Andy Sidaris movies. Fourteen of them to be exact. By the end, I felt that I had learned some new things about life. Special lessons, if you will. And while I’m in no way ready to join the ranks of L.E.T.H.A.L. ( Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and […]
“We prefer the lighter approach to our brand of entertainment. We like people feeling good at the end of the film.” Andy Sidaris was born in Chicago but grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. This city would become the home for many of his later films. Before he’d go into film, however, Sidaris was an Emmy […]
One of the things you may notice as you watch the Andy Sidaris movies that we’ve been covering this week is that they’re all produced by his wife, Arlene. We’re beyond pleased that she took the time to answer a few of our questions about these iconic films and why we still love them years […]
Writer/director Nello Rossati isn’t an Italian filmmaker that gets brought up all that often. He does have some interesting films in his resume, including 1987’s Django Strikes Again, the only official sequel to a western genre all on its own. He also made Bona parte di Paolina, one of the few Napoleon-sploitation films that I can think […]
Yes, I realize that this is not a Full Moon film, but they carry it in their online store and on their streaming platform and I’m quite frankly exhausted by all the puppets and bongs and miniature killers and DeCoteau movies and when I saw Sybil Danning on the poster, teenage me said, “We need […]
There’s not too many films that sell me within a minute of its two minute trailer with a want, no, a need, to see the movie it shills. Oh, do I ever want to stream this movie. If Quentin Tarantino decided to make another retro-homage to his video store memories of old — only trading […]
If I had to pick two Mexican stars to be secret agents, it would be Santo and Jorge Rivera, who we all know as Mace from Fulci’s insane ode to fog Conquest. Yes, the Eurospy craze stuck around a little but longer in Mexico and if Santo gets to be a spy, so be it. The […]
June 21: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie — is Julie Strain. On January 10, 2021, our world got a whole lot worse when Julie Strain died. In everything she did — and look, not every movie is really all that great, but who cares — she exuded confidence, a […]
“A Supercharged Girl! Always Ready For Action . . . of Any Kind!!” — Copywriter innuendo to make you buy that ticket While this sounds like a female-spun, Sexploitation-era James Bond knockoff, à la Cherie Caffaro’s Ginger McAllister from Ginger (1971), The Abductors (1972), and Girls Are For Loving (1973) — which, along with Ted […]
