Tom Jolliffe looks back at a couple of video era films about nefarious hitchhikers, The Nature of The Beast and Midnight Ride… ‘My mother told me never to do this.’ Words of wisdom foolishly ignored by Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in the 1986 Rutger Hauer classic, The Hitcher. Halsey picked up a hitchhiker and […]
The Essential Ninja Movies of Sho Kosugi
Marvelous Videos presents the essential ninja movies of Sho Kosugi… Like samurai, ninja are a Japanese staple that have become amazing figures of their own. Impoverished mercenaries from the feudal era of Japan have grown into icons of espionage, sabotage, and sweet black robes. As such, it’s no surprise why ninja movies are very popular. […]
Le Tigre: The Dolph Lundgren/Andrzej Zulawski Film That Never Was
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Le Tigre. A film that never was with the strange combination of Dolph Lundgren and director Andrzej Zulawski… Cinema is absolutely loaded with films that came tantalisingly close to seeing the light of day before falling at the final hurdle. Even this year will bring us a new Bond film, […]
Masters of the Universe with critic Scott J. Davis | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #74
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic and interviewer Scott J. Davis discusses the high camp and nostalgia of the 1980s cult fantasy Masters of the Universe… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, […]
The B to Z of Movies: The Independent Mavericks, and a Lasting Legacy
Continuing in our look at the B to Z of movies, Tom Jolliffe looks at the rogue film-makers who operated away from the studio systems, from the 50’s through to the prolific video era… What do Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and host […]
Update: Cannon Films are coming back and producing American Ninja Apprentice and Return of The Delta Force
If you’re a fan of bad movies, then you’ll probably know The Cannon Group. Throughout the 1980s, they brought us cinema classics like Death Wish 3, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Apple, Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, American Ninja, Missing in Action, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Delta Force. They […]
