Category: Cult Cinema
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I love Traditional Kung-Fu movies. I know this might put me in a minority of one, but I love everything about them. I love the pomp and circumstance. I love how they are steeped in Chinese Opera. I love how people are decent enough to stand around in the background of a fight, waiting for…
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With acting more wooden than a forest, nighttime shots that just aren’t, a lobster from the local aquarium for a super imposed giant monster, and a Leader whose beard looks like it was glued to his face from a shagpile carpet and painted black with boot polish, Teenagers from Outer Space is a fucking laugh…
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If Police Story is my idea of perfection in the genre of Action/Comedy, then Donnie Yen’s SPL (aka: Killzone) is the ultimate downer that is, somehow, also biblically good. Welcome to a world where the color palette is bruised kidney, the moral compass is spinning like a ceiling fan in a hurricane, and the only…
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Look, we’ve all had bad days. You catch your husband at a bar with a woman whose hair has more volume than your entire personality, you get gaslit by the local sheriff, and then, to top it all off, giant bald alien in a velvet tracksuit tries to steal your diamond necklace. It’s a lot.…
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Listen up: if you want to understand what action cinema looked like before safety nets, digital doubles, and lawyers, watch Police Story. In 1985, Jackie Chan turned a Hong Kong shopping mall into a demolition zone and treated his own body like a crash-test dummy. What follows isn’t just action choreography, it’s controlled chaos performed…