Recent viewings

[indianasmith]

THE LOST EMPIRE (1984) - This is the B movie that got me hooked on B-movies 35 years ago!
Still hilarious today, it features all the hallmarks of 80's cheese - groan-inducing dialogue, skimpy costumes, really BAD martial arts fights, actresses who can't act, bad guys who can't shoot, a dude in a gorilla costume, and the staple of all 80's B-films - BH(squared).*
If you haven't seen this, see it.  If you have seen it, WATCH IT AGAIN!!!  5/5



*Big hair, big hooters

[Rev. Powell]

ALL THE COLORS OF GIALLO (2019): Documentary describing the rise and nature of Italian giallo thrillers of the 60s and 70s, with reflections by practitioners Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, and more. A comprehensive documentary that loses focus as it goes on. Note that this rating is for the title documentary only; the 3-disc set of the same name released by Severin Films contains several smaller features, hours of trailers (with commentary), and a CD of select soundtrack cuts. That compilation is highly recommended. Feature documentary 2.5/5; set 4/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018)
Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales gains spider powers, just in time to help the "original" Spider-Man and several of his alternate-universe counterparts stop The Kingpin from causing inter-dimensional havoc.
I wasn't sure how I was going to like this one at first, since the main character isn't the Spider-Man I grew up on, but the flick is gorgeously animated, very funny, and action packed. Lots of fun -- just forget everything you know about Spidey and roll with it.

[indianasmith]

SUCKER PUNCH (2011) - I loved this movie when I saw it the first time, in the theaters in 2011, and I have loved it every time I have watched it since. This mind-bending, girl power steampunk epic as visually beautiful, philosophically deep, and mentally confusing as it blends and wraps multiple layers of reality into each other.  If you haven't seen it, SEE IT!!!  5/5

[Rev. Powell]

RIFFTRAX: THE ICE CREAM MAN: Clint Howard stars as a psychotic ice cream man; a bunch of kids take it on themselves to investigate him. This is one bad, bad movie: badly written, badly acted, carelessly edited. Fortunately the commentary made me laugh enough to make it worth it, though the jokes at Jan Michael Vincent's expense aren't quite as funny as when it was released in 2018. 3/5.

[Alex]

Battle Angel Alita. Enjoyed it a lot more than the negative reviews I'd heard of it would indicate, but then again I do like cyberpunk style stuff.

[lester1/2jr]

The Attack (2013) - not a masterpiece of any kind, but decent Lebanese movie about an Israeli Arab whose wife decides to become a suicide bomber. brave take on a most controversial subject, it's just a little basic and the many potential themes are a bit beyond the directors grasp. 4/5

[FatFreddysCat]

"Die Hard" (1988)
A lone New York cop visiting his estranged wife in L.A. for the holidays takes on a skyscraper full of terrorists. You've all seen it, you know by heart, it made Bruce Willis into a bona fide movie star.  30+ years later, "Die Hard" still holds up well. Nuff said.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Black Shampoo" (1976)
A bizarre blend of blaxploitation and sexploitation from director Greydon Clark, the '70s trash kingpin of "Satan's Cheerleaders," "Without Warning" and "Joysticks" fame.

Studly black hairdresser "Mr. Jonathan" has a booming business in which he styles rich womens' hair and also attends to their, errr... other needs. Everything goes great until he makes the mistake of falling in love with his salon's new receptionist, who happens to be the "property" of a local mobster.

Cheap as hell and filled with nudity, bad dialogue and wooden acting, this flick plays like a softcore porn until the last fifteen or twenty minutes, when it suddenly turns into an ultra-violent revenge saga with gun play, chainsaw dismemberments (!) and a pool-cue impalement. Even the most experienced bad movie masochists will say "WTF?" at least once during its mercifully short run time. The best part of this flick is the funky-as-hell score. Otherwise, AVOID.

[Rev. Powell]

"Black Shampoo" (1976)
A bizarre blend of blaxploitation and sexploitation from director Greydon Clark, the '70s trash kingpin of "Satan's Cheerleaders," "Without Warning" and "Joysticks" fame.

Studly black hairdresser "Mr. Jonathan" has a booming business in which he styles rich womens' hair and also attends to their, errr... other needs. Everything goes great until he makes the mistake of falling in love with his salon's new receptionist, who happens to be the "property" of a local mobster.

Cheap as hell and filled with nudity, bad dialogue and wooden acting, this flick plays like a softcore porn until the last fifteen or twenty minutes, when it suddenly turns into an ultra-violent revenge saga with gun play, chainsaw dismemberments (!) and a pool-cue impalement. Even the most experienced bad movie masochists will say "WTF?" at least once during its mercifully short run time. The best part of this flick is the funky-as-hell score. Otherwise, AVOID.

Oh man, I LIKE this one!

[FatFreddysCat]

"Dollman vs. Demonic Toys" (1993)

Before Freddy met Jason, before Alien met Predator, Charles Band's Full Moon studio produced this gleefully cheap "cross-over" between two of their "franchises" - the evil playthings of "Demonic Toys" and the six-inch-tall alien cop "Dollman." As a bonus, they even threw in the shrunken blonde hot chick from "Bad Channels" for good measure.

It's Halloween night and disgraced police officer Judith Grey (Tracy Scoggins, slumming in between her stints on "Dynasty" and "Lois & Clark") has enlisted Dollman (the hilariously deadpan Tim Thomerson) and his girlfriend Ginger (Melissa Behr) to help her eliminate the Demonic Toys once and for all at their toy warehouse home base. Cheap sets, cheap gore, and lotsa low-rent monster mayhem ensues, set to the music of Quiet Riot (!).

Even with a bunch of recycled "Dollman," "Demonic Toys" and "Bad Channels" footage added in for padding, the run time on this epic battle royale was only a hair over an hour!  So hey, at least my suffering was minimal.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Black Shampoo" (1976)
A bizarre blend of blaxploitation and sexploitation from director Greydon Clark, the '70s trash kingpin of "Satan's Cheerleaders," "Without Warning" and "Joysticks" fame.

Studly black hairdresser "Mr. Jonathan" has a booming business in which he styles rich womens' hair and also attends to their, errr... other needs. Everything goes great until he makes the mistake of falling in love with his salon's new receptionist, who happens to be the "property" of a local mobster.

Cheap as hell and filled with nudity, bad dialogue and wooden acting, this flick plays like a softcore porn until the last fifteen or twenty minutes, when it suddenly turns into an ultra-violent revenge saga with gun play, chainsaw dismemberments (!) and a pool-cue impalement. Even the most experienced bad movie masochists will say "WTF?" at least once during its mercifully short run time. The best part of this flick is the funky-as-hell score. Otherwise, AVOID.

Oh man, I LIKE this one!

I wanted to dig it but it's so slow moving that I literally dozed off for a few minutes, yet when I woke up I didn't feel like I'd missed anything.

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" (1976)
A foxy prison escapee and a girl hitchhiker join forces to commit a series of daring bank robberies across Texas, with the cops just a few steps behind them the entire way. The two leading ladies in this oh-so-'70s exploitation action comedy are hot (and frequently nude), plus lots of cars crash and stuff blows up. What more do you need to have a good time with a movie? 

[FatFreddysCat]

"Die Hard 2" (1990)
It's Christmas Eve, and good ole John McClane is "up to his ass in terrorists again!" When a rogue military force takes over Washington DC's Dulles International Airport to free a captured South American drug kingpin, John's the only one who can save the day before planes full of holiday travelers (including his wife, Holly) start falling out of the sky. Bigger and faster moving than the first "DH," with an amazing supporting cast that includes Dennis Franz, John Amos, Wiliiam Sadler (playing the scummiest villain ever!), Franco Nero, and even Robert "T-1000" Patrick, this just may be the best "Die Hard" of 'em all.

[indianasmith]

BLOODY BLOODY BIBLE CAMP - I saw this as a freebie on Amazon Prime and decided to give it a watch.  It checks all the bad movie boxes with a large dose of deliberate offensiveness thrown in (Ron Jeremy as Jesus?  Really?), but it's done in such a goofy, campy style that it's hard to be offended.  Let's see - a bunch of campers are hacked up by someone in a nun costume, and seven years later a priest brings  a group of teenagers back to the camp because his church is interested in buying it.  Predictable, silly, and kinda fun.  4/5