(aka, Carbon Copy) Let’s start with Andrew Bellware: He first came to my attention with Prometheus Trap, an odd yet intelligent endless time loop film made for next to nothing, and not long afterwards I saw his even better follow up, Clone Hunter. That was enough to get me interested in his work and I’ve […]
Read more "Android Uprising (2020)"(Literal Translation: The Big Effigy) It starts with a death. At a remote secret research facility, surrounded by soldiers and under the tightest security imaginable, a scientist — one of the first to join the project, and second only to the director — drops dead without warning. The doctors at the facility cannot find […]
Read more "A nagy képmás [Larger Than Life] (1977)"Look, let’s get one thing straight: Action movies are absurd. It goes with the territory. In fact, complaining about the absurdity of an action movie is a lot like complaining about the wind when you are out in a sailboat. It’s what makes the thing go. I know, a lot of people sneer at Deep […]
Read more "Deep Rising (1998)"(aka, Third Planet After the Sun) I doubt if anyone is exactly surprised that there haven’t been many Bulgarian science fiction films. To be fair, there have been a few, but for the most part no one has ever heard of them in the West. And they are rather hard to find. Particularly when we […]
Read more "Treta sled slantzeto [The Third Planet] (1972)"(Includes The Man from M.A.R.S. (1922). Aka, Radio-Mania, Mars Mania, M.A.R.S.) “Mother, does not the astonishing restriction of Earth man’s cerebral cavities limit his perspicacity to an infinitesimal minimum?” “Do not ask childish questions, dear!” Once again, I got to see something I never dreamed I would get a chance to see. Although I have […]
Read more "100 Years of 3D Movies Featuring the Man from M.A.R.S. (2022)"I’ll admit it, I watch some pretty strange films. Take Computer of Death, for example. Here we have what amounts to an attempt at a Greek copy of Tron. Only it must have been made for less than you’d spend for a used car. You see, Paris Vellis is a genius computer expert. We know […]
Read more "Ta kompiouter tou thanatou [Computer of Death] (1987)"It should be a big deal. After all, Warriors of Future was Hong Kong’s first attempt to go head-to-head with Hollywood, making its first big budget blockbuster movie. And while it doesn’t have quite as big a budget as the latest Marvel movie, it does have a lot of the things we expect from Hollywood: […]
Read more "Ming yat zin gei [Warriors of Future] (2022)"(aka, Crazy Rabbit) It is often hard to explain why we get obsessed with finding certain films. I think I stumbled across a reference to it on Letterboxed…or was it that some search or other led me to its page on IMDB? I honestly can’t remember. But, when you are talking about a film which […]
Read more "Feng kuang de tu zi [Mad Rabbit] (1997)"I’ve got a real soft spot for The Last Man on Earth. It’s far from perfect, but the first half hour or so is as close most movies ever come. But a year after it came out, Mario Gómez Martín directed this interesting short version of the novel that inspired the Vincent Price movie, Richard […]
Read more "Soy leyenda [I Am Legend] (1967)"Look, it’s a Hong Kong thing. Either you accept it for what it is, or you go off and watch something safe, like a Hallmark Christmas Movie or a SyFy network original “vs.” giant monster movie. Both of which are distinctively American in the same way that HK Chopsockey comedies are so very Hong Kong, […]
Read more "Zui jia pai dang 2: Da xian shen tong [Mad Mission Part 2: Aces Go Places] (1983)"
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