I have to admit it makes my day when I open a new DVD and find inside a short full-color mini-comic book. Not only is it a fun little extra, but it suggests that someone put in some overtime creating extra layers of depth to its world. More than most SF films do, perhaps. This […]
Read more "Sentinel 2099 SE (2018)"Somehow, this one managed to fly under my radar. That’s unusual for an Indy film which has earned more that its share of critical praise. Not that I’m complaining: I’m always happy when a film like this comes out of nowhere and whacks me over the head. And what a strange and remarkable film this […]
Read more "Freaks (2018)"Who says sequels can’t be better than the originals? Now, when I say that, a lot of people will naturally think of The Empire Strikes Back or The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2), but this time we’re talking about a film by… The Polonia Brothers. Okay, that’s strange. Almost as strange as their weird career, […]
Read more "Revolt of the Empire of the Apes (2017)"It’s a classic situation — and one I’ll admit that I love. A small group of people wake up in what appears to be a prison — or perhaps a mental hospital — with no memory of how they got there or who they are. There are others locked up in other rooms, but no […]
Read more "Shadow Puppets (2007)"There are some films out there that are so curious it is hard to know what to think of them. Somehow, it seems like a lot of them ended up on video back in the Eighties. Music of the Spheres was one of those films funded by the Canadian government. They used to fund lots […]
Read more "Music of the Spheres (1984)"This is basically the cheap Nineties direct to video version of John Carpenter’s The Thing. Well, one of them. It starts a little differently, at least: a group of losers trying to carry off a heroin deal accidentally blow up their own boat and end up stranded on a deep sea oil platform. Only it’s […]
Read more "Proteus (1995)"It is actually impressive to see so many of the Polonia Brothers‘ stock company of players in one movie. Of course, when I say “see” it’s a somewhat relative term as almost all of them are hidden behind ape masks. Or security guard masks. Heck, even Mark Polonia himself is hiding beneath one. In fact, […]
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