A beyond low budget Philippines parody — or perhaps rip-off — of the sentai show Bioman, but you are forgiven if you instantly think Power Rangers as that’s the western cultural touchstone for these shows.

The kids spend much of their time fooling with a haunted house before the mad scientist who lives there gives them some pills — yes, a weird neighborhood dudes gives kids pills and he’s the hero — and they become Red Lion 1, Green Dragon 2, Blue Eagle 3, Yellow Tiger 4 and Pink Panther 5.

You have to give it to Mr. Clown for saying screw Warner Media and just straight up dressing like the Joker, as well as having a plan where every time a kid plays a video game, they unleash monsters called Exxor, which all have one host that ends up taking over Mr. Clown’s scheme, which maybe says to me he’s not that good at what he does. I mean, never train your replacement.

If you found the budget of sentai shows to be too high and the shows to make too much sense, I invite you to let Biokids break your will.

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Shot on the world’s smallest film set, this film only has three humans — producer Ken Murray, bird trainer George Burton and Elizabeth Walters — show up in the opening. The stars are the birds of the town of Chirpendale. It was awarded an honorary Academy Award as it doesn’t really fit into the world of normal movies and we’re all better for that.

Bill, a cab driver, is trying to save Coo from a crow named the Black Menace. There’s also a circus act and man, you know, this movie was exactly what I needed the other day, just a fresh dose of innocence and fun.

Director Dean Riesner started as an actor before writing plenty of TV programs, as well as Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, The Enforcer, Fatal Beauty and many more films. He was also married to Maila Nurmi, who we all know better as Vampira.

Today, we may not understand the slang for this movie’s title, which means to sit and speak quietly. This movie is none of those things, a wild ride that has bird firemen, bird motorcyclists and no small matter of astounding bird heroics.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Project A has a clock tower stunt in it, but Jackie Chan had not seen the films of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd when he made this movie, as they were not available on home video. He saw this as the evolution of comedy, action and martial arts that he’d been working on since The Young Master.

This movie and Dragon Lord were the first films since Jackie came back from his initial failed time in America and he had something to prove.

Sergeant Dragon Ma (Chan) is part of the Hong Kong Marine Police, which is battling both pirates and their Hong Kong Police rivals. After one fight oo many, the Marine and regular police have to join forces.

Beyond Dragon Ma, Project A also has Sammo Hung as Zhuo “Fei” Yifei and Yuen Baio as Inspector Hong Tin-Tzu. In time, they all join together to face pirate lord Lor Sam Pau (Dick Wei), who is smuggling guns directly from the cops.

Up until Project A came out, Hong Kong movies didn’t have the large sets and attention to period detail that other movies did. It’s also a film that isn’t all fighting, but instead a mix of action and combat.

Ryo Saeba (Jackie Chan) is a detective who fights crime in Tokyo along with his partner Hideyuki Makimura (Michael Wong) under the business name of City Hunter. When Hideyuki is murdered, Ryo agrees to watch out for his sister Kaori (Joey Wong), who is secretly in love with the man who has helped to raise her.

Ryo and Kaori are hired to locate the daughter of a CEO, Shizuko Imamura (Kumiko Goto), which creates a chase through a skatepark and finds everyone on a cruise ship that is being taken over by Col. Donald “Don Mac” MacDonald (Richard Norton) and his operatives.

What follows is utter lunacy, with Ryo fighting in front of a screen showing Game of Death and basically becoming Bruce Lee, a card-throwing gambler called Kao Ta (Leon Lai), Chan being thrown into a Street Fighter game and a fight turning into multiple characters from the game being turned into real fighters and, of course, Kaori getting sick of Ryo picking up women and knocking him into orbit with a giant cartoon hammer.

While one of Chan’s least favorite movies, I found it wacky and the action moves quickly. This is a film that totally entertained me, particularly the arcade fight.

There have also been three animated films, .357 Magnum, Bay City Wars and Million Dollar Conspiracy, as well as Saviour of the Soul, which takes the main story of City Hunter and changes the names. There’s also a French film based on City Hunter, Nicky Larson et le Parfum de Cupidon (Nicky Larson and Cupid’s Perfume).

Jackie Chan came to America in the 80s and made The Big Brawl, Cannonball Run, Cannonball Run II and The Protector, none of which made him a star here and all of which disappointed him, particularly the last film. Police Squad is the movie that he wanted to make, a film based around stunts that Chan and his stunt team dreamed of doing and a story that united these moments together.

Jackie is Sergeant “Kevin” Chan Ka-Kui, who arrested a drug lord before getting charged with murder. The effort it takes to clear his name is the united story for all of the mayhem, as well as Ka-Kui protecting the drug dealer’s secretary Salina Fong (Brigitte Lin) before she testifies against him, all while his girlfriend May (Maggie Cheung) deals with her jealousy before helping him solve the case.

The end of the movie, which takes place in a glass-filled shopping mall, is filled with some of the most ill-advised stunts of Chan and his team’s careers. At one point, Chan slides down a pole from several stories up. One of Chan’s stuntmen gave him a hug and a Buddhist prayer paper, which he put in his trousers, and then he slid down that light-covered pole and recieved second-degree burns on his hands, a back injury and a dislocated pelvis. There are no wires, there was no practice take, just Chan giving his all to entertain audiences.

In 1990, Miramax wanted to give Jackie another chance in America and wanted to combine this movie and its sequel, the somehow even wilder Police Story 2, as one movie. Chan rejected them.

Five years later, he would finally become a star here with Rumble In the Bronx.

April 5: Roger Corman’s birthday — Whether he produced or directed the movie, share a movie for Corman’s birthday.

In the mid-1950s, reincarnation was in and The Search for Bridey Murphy was being made, so Roger Corman asked Charles Griffith to write a script, which was originally called The Trance of Diana Love, which is a great title, and was to be in all iambic pentameter.

Griffith said, “I separated all the different things with sequences with the devil, which were really elaborate, and the dialogue in the past was all in iambic pentameter. Roger got very excited by that. He handed the script around for everybody to read, but nobody understood the dialogue, so he told me to translate it into English. The script was ruined.”

I can’t even add up how many wasted hours that was.

Mel Welles, who played Smolkin, told Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup “it was a wonderful script and it probably would have been the cult film rather than Little Shop of Horrors had it been shot that way. But either Roger or someone at American-International Pictures didn’t think it was commercially viable to do it that way and at the last minute a decision was made to rewrite the script without that.”

Quintus Ratcliff (Val DuFour) is a psychic researcher who has spent years in Tibet to learn how to mentally regress someone back into their past life. He wants to prove to an old professor that he can do this, so he hires Diana Love (Pamela Duncan) for $500 to place her into a trance for two days.

She’s soon back in the Middle Ages, trapped in the mind of her ancestor Helene, accused of witchcraft. Diana is able to inform her past self of how to escape, so she heads into the night and meets up with the real witch Livia (Allison Hayes) and even Satan himself (Richard Devon).

Using the link between Diana and Helene, Quintus comes back in time, hoping to convince Helene to avoid her death and change history.

With Billy Barty as an imp and Dick Miller as a leper, this Corman film may have been a cheap one — and one that caused him stress with the bad smelling fog and budget issues — but it’s a fun idea well told. You can’t even tell that it was shot inside a supermarket.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Also known as I Hate Your Guts, Shame and The Stranger, this film was bought by Roger Corman from Seven Arts in 1960. He originally saw Tony Randall as the star and the movie was turned down by AIP, UA and Allied Artistsbefore he raised the money with help from Pathé Labs, with Corman and his brother Gene paying the rest. That said, Pathé eventually got cold feet and the Cormans distributed the movie themselves.

Even though it cost only $90,000, this was one of the few Corman movies to lose money.

Corman said, “We put our hearts, our souls – and what few people do – our money into this picture. Everybody asked us “Why would you make this picture?” as if to say why try to do something you believe in when everything else is so profitable. Obviously we did it because we wanted to, and we think it’s a damn good job.”

It did teach Corman a valuable lesson. He said, “I think it failed for two reasons. One: the audience at that time, the early sixties, simply didn’t want to see a picture about racial integration. Two: it was more of a lecture. From that moment on I thought my films should be entertainment on the surface and I should deliver any theme or idea or concept beneath the surface.”

Based on the Charles Beaumont novel of the same name — Beaumont also wrote the screenplay — The Intruder has Adam Cramer (William Shatner) has shown up in the small Southern town of Caxton to disrupt integration. Even though he’s a stranger and not even a Southerner, he soon charms the entire town into going from accepting blacks and whites in the same school to attempting to use that very same school’s swingset to lynch a black student.

Shatner has claimed that the lives of the cast and crew were threatened, equipment was destroyed and permission to film in a local schoolyard was revoked. He was also told that a tree in one scene actually was used for lynching. And then the entire production was kicked out of East Prairie, MO for being Communists.

The Wild Angels earned $7 million on a budget of $360,000, making it the highest-grossing low-budget film of its era. Not bad for a movie that had script issues between Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith, as well as numerous re-writes by Peter Bogdanovich. Plus, the US State Department tried to prevent the film from being shown in Venice on the grounds that it “did not show America the way it is.”

And yet the Hells Angels brought a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Corman for how they were portrayed in this movie, which really makes me want to be a biker. Maybe they didn’t notice while they were acting as extras, each getting paid $35 per day for their cooperation and $20 per day for their motorcycles.

It’s also the first movie that Peter Fonda would be associated with the counter-culture and motorcycles. While promoting The Trip and autographing astill from this movie showing he and Bruce Dern on one motorcycle, the actor came up with the concept for Easy Rider.

It’s also a movie packed with taglines that shove you into the theater like “Their credo is violence…their God is hate…and they call themselves The Wild Angels” and “The most terrifying film of your time!”

Heavenly Blues (Fonda) shouts, “We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride! We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man. And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that’s what we’re gonna do. We are gonna have a good time. We are gonna have a party.” That opening is at the beginning of Primal Scream’s “Loaded,” which informs so much of Edgar Wright’s The World’s End.

This episodic film moves from trying to find Joe “Loser” Kearns’ (Dern) stolen motorcycle to the gang evading the police to plan the Loser’s funeral and how Blues, Loser’s girl Gayesh (Diane Ladd) and Blues’ lover Mike (Nancy Sinatra) are pulled along as the gang disintegrates as a final party descends into madness.

The close of this movie, as Blues shovels dirt onto the grave of his best friend and says, “There’s nowhere to go,” is exactly why I keep coming back to Corman movies, which have such a heart and something to say in the midst of the mayhem and carny edge that get you into the theater.

We also have this movie to thank for Laura Dern, as the daughter of Dern and Ladd was conceived while this movie was being made.