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Forgotten Action Cinema: The Screaming Tiger
Misleading titles to common household action movies often depress me. Of course, I didn’t expect director Lung Chien’s ridiculous 1973 Jimmy Wang Yu vehicle “The Screaming Tiger” (“Screaming Ninja”, “King of Boxers”, et. al.)...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: American Samurai
Continuing in their thankless quest to blanket the globe with cheap, run-of-the-mill action pictures, forgotten B-movie mastermind Cannon Films released the David Bradley “Bloodsport” knock-off “American Samurai” upon the world at-large way back in...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Future Kick
Director Damian Klaus’s 1991 post-apocalyptic epic “Future Kick” is an epic failure. An entertaining failure, mind you, but a failure nonetheless. Seriously, folks: If you’re going to cast Don “The Dragon” Wilson in your...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Street Asylum
I was drawn to the VHS copy of softcore porn veteran Gregory Dark’s 1990 sci-fi thriller “Street Asylum” because of the picture of G. Gordon Liddy as a cyborg on the cover. Sadly, this...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Revolt
When his brother is savagely murdered attempting to smuggle drugs across the Mexican border, an grieving man with a sweet mustache decides to avenge his sibling’s untimely demise. Along the way, you’ll also encounter...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Thunderpants
How anyone on God’s greenish earth could despise a motion picture built solely around a child who cannot stop farting is simply beyond my limited means of comprehension. Apparently a lot of people do,...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Oblivion
Imagine, if you will, a cheap, second-rate sound stage dressed to resemble a typical Old West-style township, complete with poorly constructed storefronts and several idiosyncratic ceiling fans mounted from a selection of elevated planes...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Clementine
Although this particular action-oriented outing is more understandably undiscovered than unfortunately forgotten, I felt its inclusion here was important as it represented a milestone in my cinematic journey. Last night’s slow and steady consumption...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: The Patriot
I like to think that, in every actor’s storied filmography, there lies a film that will get you punched directly in the face should you bring the title up within close proximity to said...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Twister’s Revenge
Thank the dark powers of Cthulhu for the boys and girls at Mill Creek Entertainment, the company responsible for dumping all of those insanely enjoyable, genre-themed “50 Movie Pack” DVD sets into bargain bins...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Lady Dragon
While other savvy web-oriented reviewers are spending their oh-so precious moments viewing critically-acclaimed, life-affirming, award-winning motion pictures in exquisite art house theaters around the globe, I prefer to expend my lazy days off watching...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Laserblast
What happens you when you give a shiftless teenager direct, unsupervised access to laser weaponry from dimensions unknown? Not a lot, really. Director Michael Rae and veteran schlock producer Charles Band’s gloriously wretched 1978...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Outta Time
When the day comes for me to wither and wheeze and die in a derelict nursing home surrounded by feeding tubes and oxygen tanks, I shall not regret the fact that I watched the...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Psycho Kickboxer
Damn you, Shock-O-Rama! Despite the fact that the scene depicted on the packaging for directors David Haycox and Mardy South’s cheesy martial arts revenge saga “Psycho Kickboxer” never actually appears in the film, I...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Pocket Ninjas
Currently ranked as one of the absolute worst motion pictures in the entire Internet Movie Database, questionable director Dave Eddy’s surreal 1997 kiddie kung fu adventure “Pocket Ninjas” is, if nothing else, a unique,...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Of Cooks and Kung Fu
By 1979, kung fu cinema had covered quite a bit of territory. In order to stay relevant, filmmakers had to aim their creative juices in different directions, regardless of how outrageous or asinine the...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Dudes
“Decline of the Western Civilization” director Penelope Spheeris, while talented, has certainly made some very strange choices during the early stages of her career. And while the filmmaker’s pseudo-cool 1987 revenge saga “Dudes” isn’t...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Split Second
On the surface, director Tony Maylam’s seriously misunderstood 1992 sci-fi actioner “Split Second” appears to be an impossibly uninspired “Alien” knock-off that borrows heavily from Stephen Hopkins’ silly sequel to John McTiernan’s immortal classic...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: The Order of the Black Eagle
A legion of modern-day Nazis are operating within the jungles of South America, and it’s up to international secret agent Duncan Jax to take them down. What he doesn’t know, of course, is that...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: TC 2000
When you stop to ponder how many times Billy Blanks gets his ass kicked over the course of T.J. Scott’s dorky science fiction actioner “TC 2000″, you seriously start to question his status as...
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