FORGOTTEN HEROES: Spawn (1997)
There was a time when comic books were not celebrated. When only the disenfranchised cared or knew about them instead of the mainstream. And in those ancient times — let’s call them 1992 — no news was bigger than when Marvel’s biggest creators left en masse to form Image Comics. At the time, these artists […]
FORGOTTEN HEROES: The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
Captain Invincible helped win World War 2 but couldn’t survive the McCarthy hearings. Angry that his country turned its back on him, he moved to Australia and became a drunk. Thirty years later, Mr. Midnight, his greatest villain, comes back and steals the hypno ray. The U.S. government now needs the Captain back. But is […]
FORGOTTEN HEROES: 3 Giant Men (1973)
In the world of Turkish cinema, Spider-Man leads a gang of counterfeiter who use murders people with outboar dmotors, axes and man-eating guinea pigs. Santo is a secret agent who rarely wears his mask and puts things directly into his pants, pockets by damned. And Captain America doesn’t have a shield, smokes and brings his […]
FORGOTTEN HEROES: Megaforce (1982)
In 1982, you could not read a comic book without seeing the ad for Megaforce. It’s the first hype I can truly remember, save for the similar ad strategy for 1977’s Orca. As a ten-year-old chubby geek, I needed to know all about Ace Hunter and his crew of super soldiers. I wondered, “As a small child […]
FORGOTTEN HEROES: Doc Savage (1975)
As a kid, I was obsessed with superheroes. And in the late 1970’s, there was an abundance of them on the small screen after 1978’s Superman. Captain America, Spider-Man, The Hulk, Wonder Woman and Dr. Strange all got their own TV movies or shows. And then there’s all of the non-comic book heroes, like Gemini Man, […]
FUCKED UP FUTURES: Gas-s-s-s (1970)
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It would be the last movie that Roger Corman would direct for AIP. And it would be the last film he’d helm for nearly twenty years, too. Why? Turns out Corman was unhappy to the cuts made to the film (AIP and Corman […]
FUCKED UP FUTURES: Idaho Transfer (1973)
Karen Braden just got out of a mental hospital. Now, her father and sister, Isa, have taken her to a secret government facility in Idaho where they’re working on matter transference. However, they’ve learned how to travel through time instead, which has taught them a sad fact: an ecological event will soon wipe out civilization. […]
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
I was in a meeting with some business friends early this year when we started to discuss the troubling nature of how films from the past seem horrifying when viewed through the prism of today’s more woke culture. In fact, that conversation is exactly when I decided to take our podcast and turn it into this […]
FUCKED UP FUTURES: 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
One of the nice things about an Italian ripoff film is that it allows us to revisit the worlds of our favorite movies. You don’t need any exposition or set up — you already know all about how New York City got even worse from Escape from New York. Just sit back and enjoy, because Enzo G. […]
FUCKED UP FUTURES: A Boy and His Dog (1975)
There’s nothing like the bond between a man and his dog. So many of the entries on this site are written in the middle of the night, as our dog likes to wake me up at 3 AM to go for a walk, then I can’t go back to sleep. Vic (a very young Don […]
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