Video Wars (1983)

The things I get myself into… Okay, anytime you try some long-lost film, you know the odds.  Most films made by someone you never heard of, in a city without a major film industry are going to be terrible, or worse.  We know that. And, yes, M. Night Shyamalan managed to do his best work […]

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Project: Valkyrie (2002)

I’ve been looking for this one for a while. Back in 2011, Jeff Waltrowski released an interesting microbudgeted faux-Thirties film called It Came from Yesterday which riffed on the old adventure serials.  Jeff himself starred as Professor Jack Cranston, genius inventor and the head of the crime-fighting Electric Club, which was a sort of cross […]

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La poupée [The Doll] (1962)

Curiouser and curiouser. This was my third early Sixties Italian science fiction film for the weekend. And, by far, the oddest. Even for the early Sixties. Now there are still a few little-known science fiction movies from the age before Lucas lurking out there which I haven’t seen yet.  But it isn’t always easy to […]

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