An action-packed film about a rickshaw boy who works to support his mother using his kung fu power to change the course of his life. This is over the top violent and a clear high point in the grimier vein of mid-70s martial arts flicks.
Read More »
This Is Cinerama (1952) Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch, Lowell Thomas, Kathy Darlyn, Documentary
A standard screen B&W prologue during which Lowell Thomas shows how, from the dawn of history, mankind has attempted to create the illusion of depth & movement by artistic, mechanical and photographic means.
Read More »
Pig (2001) Mark Steven Bosko, T. Michael Conway, Jim Volkert, Abdullah Bey, Virginia Drda, Drama
Across America, small town cops rule the land. And what you hear about these prejudiced police is often true. This is the story of one such cop. Part mythic folk hero, part bad-ass, he is both feared and admired, hated and loved by the residents of his town. Witness first hand the violence and boredom consuming this law-man’s daily routine. Come, take a ride with Pig.
Read More »
No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990) Lucas Lowe, Loren Avedon, Keith Vitali, Joseph Campanella, Action
Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.
Read More »
Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend (1992) Ronnie Cramer, Andren Scott, Sarah Young, Jean Wolf, Comedy, Erotic
A lonely security guard can’t even get a decent blind date, so he begins peeping at women through their bedroom windows. Before long he’s paying call girls to come over and secretly videotaping every session. Within two weeks he’s blown his life savings and been subjected to a lot of verbal and physical abuse. This bizarre black comedy is loaded with naked women!
Read More »
Bare Witness (2002) Kelley Cauthen, Angie Everhart, Catalina Larranaga, Daniel Baldwin, Thriller, Erotic
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal ‘eldest business’ there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max ‘Slim’ Reuter’s hookers and porn actresses, whom he had sex with before – and while making a most incriminating call about his murder attempt at a high society campaign party for mayor Garland’s electoral challenger Mary Washington, where the bullet is however caught by councilor Frank Constantine, who also survives. Gav’s client, businessman Ian Hunter, who was videotaped earlier, has his girl Marina shoot Gav and then Julie, later Slim who. Rough but effective police detective Killian investigates, helped by Julie’s friend Carly Marsh, and unravels even more sordid connections.
Read More »
Double Dragon (1994) James Yukich, Robert Patrick, Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Set 15 years in the future in post-earthquake California, where San Diego and Los Angeles are merged into one city, two teenage brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. Millionaire Koga Shuko (a.k.a. Guisman) has the other half and determines to get the brothers’ half in order to have the complete medallion and the absolute power of the magical Double Dragon talisman.
Read More »
Making Love (1982) Arthur Hiller, Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Drama
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach’s office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him.
Read More »
Worried About the Boy (2010) Julian Jarrold, Douglas Booth, Jonny Burt, Mathew Horne, Biography, Drama, Music
In 1980 young George O’Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter,who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange’s trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk.
Read More »
Lisa (1989) Gary Sherman, Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Fourteen year-old Lisa is raised by her unmarried mother Katherine who overprotects her by forbidding her to date until she’s sixteen. In despair, Lisa and schoolmate Wendy make up a game that consists of inferring attractive men’s phone numbers from their car ID and giving them anonymous calls. Last victim is the handsome Richard, with whom Lisa begins a passionate phone relationship, unaware that he’s also a psycho-killer and sex maniac…
Read More »