WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Cop Killers (1977)
Tucson, Arizona. The insane killer Ray (Jason Williams, Flesh Gordon) and the whiny sad guy Alex (Bill Osco, The Being) get five kilos of cocaine, run into some police, kill those officers — the title is a spoiler — before they steal a frozen lemonade truck, shotgun blast another policeman, murder a gas station worker, […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Cool It Carol (1970)
According to the opening credits, “this story is true, but actual names and places are fictitious.” That’s because Pete Walker read a story in the tabloid News of the World and got inspired. And unlike movies of this era like Permissive and More, the degenerate lifestyle he envisioned wasn’t tragic. Joe (Robin Askwith, the Confessions of… series) and Carol […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Convention Girls (1978)
Directed and co-written — with T. Gertler — by Joseph Adler, who also made Sex and the College Girl and Scream Baby Scream, Convention Girls is a movie that I can’t find. The Alamo Drafthouse refers to it as a “Florida-shot indie obscurity — a super rare 35mm print of a movie never released on DVD or video!” They […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Sister Act (1992)
Aug 11-17 Whoopi Goldberg Week: She’s become a corny tv lady these days, but let’s not forget that at her peak Whoopi was one of the funniest people alive. Directed by Emile Ardolino and written by Paul Rudnick, Sister Act was one of the most financially successful comedies of the early 1990s. It’s about Deloris […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Child (1977)
We first encountered The Child at a Halloween party thrown at the palatial Mexican War Streets home of Mr. Groovy Doom himself, Bill Van Ryn. While some folks drank in the kitchen or enjoyed the mix of Goblin and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult blasting in the sitting room, I was entranced by a […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)
Carol (Rebecca Brooke) is in the middle of a steady swinging relationship between her husband Eddie (David Hausman), next door neighbor and best friend Anne (Chris Jordan) and her partner Pete (Eric Edwards). But when her widowed mother, Jennifer Robison (Jennifer Welles), comes to live with her, she worries that they will have to hide […]
ARROW VIDEO BLU-RAY AND 4K UHD RELEASE: Dark City (1998)
Directed, co-written, and co-produced by Alex Proyas, Dark City was a bomb, but one that has found its audience. It followed Proyas’ first two films, Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds and The Crow. Maybe the movies that followed — Garage Days, I, Robot, Knowing and Gods of Egypt — didn’t live up to the promise he was showing […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Burglar (1987)
Aug 11-17 Whoopi Goldberg Week: She’s become a corny tv lady these days, but let’s not forget that at her peak Whoopi was one of the funniest people alive. Based on The Burglar in the Closet by Lawrence Block, this has Whoopi as former burglar Bernice “Bernie” Rhodenbarr, who is blackmailed into doing jobs for […]
88 FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Love & Crime (1969)
“King of Cult” Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men, Shogun’s Joy of Torture) shares four stories of real-life crimes of passion involving women throughout Japan’s history, including the Hotel Nihonkaku Murders; Oden Takahash, the poison wife and last woman to be executed by beheading in Japan; serial killer Yoshio Kodaira and Sada Abe, whose story was […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986)
Aug 11-17 Whoopi Goldberg Week: She’s become a corny tv lady these days, but let’s not forget that at her peak Whoopi was one of the funniest people alive. This is one of Becca’s favorite movies and she may have seen it hundreds of times. Living up to its title, it has not just one […]
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