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Forgotten Action Cinema: Call Him Mr. Shatter
On paper, the idea of combining the spectacular abilities of Hammer Films and Shaw Brothers must have seemed like super swell idea. A twisty British spy flick working side by side with the elaborate...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Surviving the Game
Before he was solving cases with The Belz on “Law & Order: SVU”, Ice-T was running for his life in director Ernest R. Dickerson’s 1994 offering “Surviving the Game”, a movie loosely based on...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Highway to Hell
“Drop Dead Fred” director Ate de Jong’s deliriously enjoyable satanic road trip “Highway to Hell” is one of my all-time favorite late-night Cinemax discoveries. Ever. Now, thanks to the efforts of a certain movie...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Detention
You may say that this particular title is too new to have been forgotten already, but ask anyone within earshot if they’ve heard of this dodgy little number and you’ll see why I’ve decided...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Gunmen
After weathering the contagious cinematic disease known amongst hardcore film fanatics as “Highlander 3: The Sorcerer” (aka “Highlander: The Final Dimension”), it’s anyone’s guess why I decided to investigate the dodgy 1994 Christopher Lambert/Mario...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Brazilian Brawl
Since I’m not the type of suicidal numb skull who enjoys pissing off a family of extremely buff, impossibly intimidating Brazilian brothers skilled in Jiu-Jitsu, I’m going to try to keep my analysis of...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Raiders of Atlantis
Infamous “Cannibal Holocaust” director Ruggero Deodato’s silly 1983 action knock-off “Raiders of Atlantis” (aka “Atlantis Interceptors”) is quite possibly one of the most unintentionally confusing movies ever to grace my highly perplexed television screen....
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Hurricane Smith
For a movie which features action guru Carl Weathers standing in front of an enormous explosion while wielding two handguns and a curvy lady on its cover, you’d think Colin Budds’ generic 1992 action...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Surf Nazis Must Die
Peter George’s insanely tasteless 1987 oddity “Surf Nazis Must Die” was an integral part of my DIY B-movie education. As sad as it may sound, this strange and frequently illogical little tale of one...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: For Your Height Only
Is it an impossibly sad hour in this lonely, pathetic little world when a guy who claims to be an aficionado of cinema boldly declares that a picture as goofy as Eddie Nicart’s surreal...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Eliminators
“Demonic Toys” director Peter Manoogian’s cheesy 1986 science fiction flick “Eliminators” has, in cinematic theory, everything you could possibly want from an action movie. The feature generous offers up plenty of martial arts experts,...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Deathstalker
There’s a scene about halfway through director James Sbardellati’s thoroughly unremarkable sword and sorcery yarn “Deathstalker” which features a particularly uncomfortable sexual assault on a toady little henchman who has been magically transformed into...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Omega Cop
Although you won’t find his name listed anywhere within the annals of cinematic history, martial arts wizard and part-time B-movie icon Ron Marchini is, in my humble opinion, the quintessential action hero for our...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: Traxx
“Pumping Iron” producer Jerome Gary’s undeniably goofy 1988 action/farce “Traxx” is typical De Laurentiis buffoonery fueled by radio and voice personality Shadoe Stevens, the man responsible for introducing comic genius Craig Ferguson on The...
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Forgotten Action Cinema: R.O.T.O.R.
Fans of cheesy 80′s cinema are probably well-versed in the world of “R.O.T.O.R.”, writer/director Cullen Blaine’s seriously misguided sci-fi actioner that borrows liberally from both “The Terminator” and “Robocop”. However, what those aforementioned flicks...
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