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Badass B-movies

Details: Created: 03 February 2019; Published: 03 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Okay, okay, okay, Uranium deals in East Africa might not sound all that exciting, but when your business associates are Humphrey Bogart, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones, and your location is Italy’s scenic Amalfi Coast, well you have the attention ...

Details: Created: 31 January 2019; Published: 31 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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"Can I come with you?" Are the people around you really who they claim to be? This reality-bending question is at the heart of Screamers, a quiet little science fiction movie that, once seen, tugs at the back of the consciousness far more effectively than ...

Details: Created: 30 January 2019; Published: 30 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Could there be anything more punk than producer Roger Corman hiring director Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World) in 1983 to direct a movie about youth alienation in Los Angeles? I think not. Call it Punxploitation; call it a walk on the wild side of safe suburban homes ...

Details: Created: 28 January 2019; Published: 28 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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It is a film that Roger Ebert eviscerated with his review, taking the moral high ground and shaming 10 to Midnight for its portrayal of sex, violence, and the female condition. He also took to the review to suggest that Charles Bronson was just showing up for a paycheck. And, ...

Details: Created: 26 January 2019; Published: 26 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Marion “Cobra” Cobretti is back on the streets. Wearing his Judas Priest-styled sunglasses, a must for ANY badass in the 1980s, and taking out any number of axe-swinging maniacs, his beat on the street gets a major visual HD upgrade thanks to Shout! Factory’s Collector’s ...

Details: Created: 24 January 2019; Published: 24 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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It is a calm, grey day. The surface of the water is still. A ferry cuts calmly across the surface, careful to make gentle waves. And then it happens. Your worst fears become reality. Rising from the surface of the once calm waters is a beast ...

Details: Created: 23 January 2019; Published: 23 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Part Woman. Part Machine. Total Destruction. When was the last time we had a female kickass alien cyborg film? It’s been a hot minute since, hmm, 1993. Which is why SheBorg (originally released as SheBorg Massacre, a better title if you ask me) immediately grabbed my ...

Details: Created: 21 January 2019; Published: 21 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Because sometimes the act of revenge is stronger medicine than actually doing it. Sometimes. The 16mm footage. The dialogue cards. The city atmospheres. Everything about Nurse Jill, including its smaller than small ...

Details: Created: 20 January 2019; Published: 20 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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The wink and the nod begins with the opening sideways shot as a cop car arrives on the scene. Swiftly, the camera corrects itself and a barrage of cops, all apparently having the worst night of their lives, arrives. The camera glides over the response to the hostage scene that is ...

Details: Created: 19 January 2019; Published: 19 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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You will NEVER forget the first seen ashen-faced zombie (Ben Harris) in this movie. I promise you. That cackle! That expression! It is a scene, in which the zombie chucks a woman’s body over a ledge, that will linger with you thanks to the crazed look glued on the face of ...