Honorable Mention Strange. I never thought of William Devane as an action hero. But I suppose on Television in the 1970s almost anything was possible, particularly when it came to TV movies. For example, it came as a bit of a shock when I realized that this movie came out two years before the film […]
Read more "Red Alert (1977)"If there were any justice in the world of Cinema, you’d have heard of Andras Rajnai by now. And maybe even be his biggest fan. He was one of the most remarkable talents in the field of science fiction and fantasy film, and yet very few people have ever heard of him because he made […]
Read more "Gyémántpiramis [Diamond Pyramid] (1985)"You have to remember that Filmation was once one of the undisputed rulers of Saturday Morning. They produced a vast flood of animated cartoons, a few feature films, and even a handful of live action TV shows over their twenty-six year career, all but one of these productions proudly made in their entirety in the […]
Read more "Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1982)"(aka, The New Gladiators) Okay, this one caught me off guard. You have to remember that this is an Italian Science Fiction film from the Eighties, when their film industry was busy churning out lots of Star Wars rip-offs, Mad Max rip-offs and Alien rip-offs. Made with very little money, international casts who couldn’t even […]
Read more "I guerrieri dell’anno 2072 [Warriors of the Year 2072] (1984)"You never know what you are going to find next. After all, there are a lot of incredible movies out there no one has ever heard of. Consider for a moment the 1986 French comedy, Kamikaze: The first thing you’ll notice is that it was produced by Luc Besson. Now this is actually more remarkable […]
Read more "Kamikaze (1986)"It is always odd when you see a movie (or book or comic or whatever) which is caught in the middle of a major upheaval. Think of the early sound films with their awkward too square aspect ratio and everyone huddled around the camera in every shot so they can be near the microphone. […]
Read more "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953)"Osamu Tezuka is probably as close to Walt Disney as anyone in Japan will ever be. He started out by redefining Manga and then jumpstarted the Japanese anime market with Astroboy. In his early work, he told surprisingly dark stories for younger readers featuring a running cast of familiar characters, but later moved to more […]
Read more "Fumoon (1980)"I always wonder why I watch these things. I suppose it’s because they sound so good, but darn it, most of them sort of fall flat, and a lot of the time I’m not exactly sure just why that is. In fact, I can only remember one of them that proved memorably good — the […]
Read more "Snow Monster [Daxue guai] (2019)"Look, it’s a question of time and place. When a mysterious boy who seems to be from the future or another reality appears suddenly in England’s West Country and says he is looking for a mysterious intersection of all the lines of power called “the Juganet,” I instantly guessed what it was. After all, I’ve […]
Read more "Sky (1975)"This is one of the rarest of Toho’s Tokusatsu films. But what the heck, I managed to see it anyway. Mind you, while I didn’t exactly see it in the worst way possible — after all, the quality of the film itself was quite good — I came fairly close. I couldn’t find any subtitles […]
Read more "Shuto shôshitsu [Tokyo Blackout] (1987)"
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