Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of the best action movies of the year. In the 1990s, Yau (“Ebola Syndrome,” “The Untold Story”) helmed sensational black comedies and/or true-crime thrillers about psychopathic skid row loners, some of which are now finding new audiences on American Blu-ray boutique labels. Today, Yau […]
Spaghetti westerns do not appeal to me, but I felt like reviewing this one because it has some historical and other camp values. For acute example, it was the last to be filmed spaghetti in Almeria. I have been there and a lot of the site is all broken down now, though some is doing
I didn’t believe a single second of “Crumb Catcher.” It begins with a nauseating blitz of woozy frames: Shane (Rigo Garay) and Leah (Ella Rae Peck) are taking post-wedding photos, holding each other arm-in-arm in a stilted, forced manner. They relate to the photographer the different versions of how they met. Shane is an author,
The Lady in Red (which is also referred to as Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin) is an American crime drama feature that premiered in 1979 and was directed by Lewis Teague, with Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad playing the leading roles. This was one of the early writings of John Sayles who later on
The Stranger Wore A Gun is a Scott-Brown production produced for Columbia pictures and is in some respects a cut above several of the Westerns that Randolph Scott made. It was directed too by Andre de Toth, but it was far from his best. De Toth was born in Austria-Hungary, where he was known as
The original “My Spy” from 2020 was a surprisingly amusing romp with a sly, subversive streak that set it apart from the usual family-friendly, action-comedy fare. Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman had solid chemistry, with Kristen Schaal serving as a wonderfully weird sidekick. And it came out on streaming a few months into the pandemic,
Takuma Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba Shin’ichi) was always up to the challenge and when he was required to free Go Owada (Shioji Akira) from police capture, while the police had the whole building surrounded, he knew he could do it. And for ten million yen, he is willing to do what it takes, at this point
Aren’t movies of this summer spinning delightfully vintage vibes? Just collectively consider “Mad Max” offshoot “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” seeing Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills again through “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” Kevin Costner’s shrewdly old-school Western “Horizon: An American Saga–Chapter 1,” the classical inspirational appeal of “Young Woman and The Sea,” the screwball-adjacent
He lives in a penthouse in New York, filled with an assortment of expensive items such as antique furniture, rich draperies, paintings, and souvenirs which suggests that he has been quite successful as a land developer. In a sudden shift of mood, Arthur Goldman would bark unchecked commands onto his faithful secretary, causing bursts of
Superheroes have changed over the years, and I have expressed my opinions on this particular topic, at no small length, previously. I grew up surrounded by my father’s Bronze and Silver Age comics, so while my knowledge of the genre has evolved, my inclination towards superheroes is still rooted in the idea of heroism as
