A celebration of the wildest and weirdest that action cinema has to offer, the hosts of the Really Awful Movies podcast take you on a fun-filled pilgrimage through the nuttiest movies in the genre.

There are a hundred movies in this book and I love that the creators didn’t just go for the expected but got some of my favorite action films in here. If you love Cannon or Italian action, you’ll love this.

Here’s a list of what’s in here:

• Miami Connection
• Raw Force
• Gymkata
• American Ninja
• City Ninja, a.k.a. Ninja Holocaust
• Dragon Hunt
• Psycho Kickboxer
• Kill Squad
• The Octagon
• No Retreat, No Surrender
• The True Game of Death
• American Kickboxer
• Mission: Killfast
• R.O.T.O.R.
• Robo Vampire
• Run Like Hell
• Eliminators
• Wired to Kill 
• Land of Doom 
• Future Force
• Roller Blade
• Robot Holocaust
• Space Mutiny
• Hired to Kill 
• Hustler Squad 
• Firecracker
• TNT Jackson
• Ninja III: The Domination
• Too Hot to Handle
• The Challenge of the Lady Ninja
• Crocodile Fury
• Lady Terminator
• Alienator
• Strike Commando
• Strike Commando 2
• Deadly Prey
• Commando
• The Annihilators
• One Tough Bastard a.k.a. One Man’s Justice 
• Blind Fury
• Shocking Dark, a.k.a. Terminator 2
• Mercenary Fighters
• Double Target
• Rolling Vengeance
• Death Wish 3
• Massacre Mafia Style aka The Executioner
• Death Force, aka Fighting Mad
• The One Armed Executioner
• Strike of the Panther aka Fists of Blood
• Pocket Ninjas
• Crippled Avengers
• Out for Justice
• Road House
• Cage
• The Condemned
• Parole Violators
• Firestorm
• Low Blow
• No Holds Barred
• Superfights
• Penitentiary 2
• Dolemite
• The Devil’s Sword
• Lock Up
• Furious
• Bloodsport
• Hard to Kill
• Dangerous Men
• Tenement, aka Slaughter in the South Bronx
• Geteven, aka Road to Revenge
• Hunter
• Hard Ticket to Hawaii
• Action USA
• Samurai Cop
• Hollywood Cop
• Mr. No Legs
• Shotgun
• Death Warrior
• Above the Law
• Captain America II: Death Too Soon
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
• Wonder Woman
• Batman & Robin
• Electra
• The Punisher
• Stunt Rock
• The Pumaman
• The Adventures of Hercules
• Conquest
• Sinbad of the Seven Seas
• Invasion USA
• Crackerjack 3
• Skin Traffik, aka A Hitman in London
• Angel of Destruction
• Virus, aka Spill
• Half Past Dead
• Never Too Young to Die
• For Your Height Only
• Nightforce
• Death Machines
• Stone Cold

There’s also an introduction by Brian Trenchard-Smith. How can you go wrong? I had a lot of fun with this book and I bet you will too.

You can get this book now from Schiffer Publishing.

The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster presents poster art created for several hundred classic Westerns produced from 1903 to 1978. More than 800 images — many reproduced as full page — make this the most comprehensive book of Western movie poster art ever published — or so the press release says.

The book attempts to explain America’s fascination with the Wild West from dime novels and pulp-fiction magazines to radio and finally movies. Each chapter devotes a special feature to a specific Western star, writer, director, stuntman or leading lady. The book also has firsthand interviews conducted from as far back as the mid-1970s.

Obviously, if you read this site, you know how great a book like this will be for your collection or to display. I can’t wait to get it and look through these full page posters.

This hardcover book will be available from Schiffer Publishing in March of next year. You can get more information and preorder here.

“When Five Fingers of Death opened in a Times Square movie theater on March 21, 1973, only a handful of Americans knew the difference between an Iron Fist and an Eagle’s Claw. Within weeks, that had changed forever.”

These Fists Break Bricks is more than just an exploration of how kung fu movies infiltrated America. It breaks down — pardon the pun — how martial arts themselves first came to the U.S. as far back as a man named Professor Yamashita being hired by President Teddy Roosevelt to be the White House’s judo instructor. It takes you from the days when Asians were often portrayed as either fools, sinister villains or just Americans in yellowface. And then explains how martial arts films — often about the slums of China and Hing Kong — found their way to the modern grindhouses in America’s inner cities, reaching not just the expected audience, but finding a home in the hearts of African-Americans and Latino audiences.

From the astoundingly insightful intro by the RZA — who paints a picture of being in the audience of NYC karate grindhouses, saying “Inside that theater, away from the noise, cold, and business of outside, I found myself in an audience of like-minded fans allowing ourselves to be transported from the slums of NYC to the hillsides of China and Japan; from the modern-day cityscape to the feudal towns and temples of the martial world.” — to the hit every corner of the martial arts trend nature of this book — comic books, TV, the VHS boom, martial arts schools, the clones of Bruce Lee and so much more — These Fists Break Bricks is essential whether you’re a student of the Shaolin or have a blindspot for these movies.

New York Times bestselling author, Grady Hendrix is celebrated around these parts for his book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the Seventies and Eighties and now, with film historian Chris Poggiali (Temple of Schlock), they’ve made a book that effortlessly solves the challenge of explaining not only the how and what of kung fu cinema, but the why.

Beyond the insightful writing, this book is packed with gorgeous poster and ad art that will delight and inspire anyone who loves — or wants to get into — these movies. As for myself, I have an entire new list of films to seek out. And that’s the highest compliment that I can pay to a book about movies.

You can learn more about the book at the official site or order it from Mondo.