Category: Cult Cinema
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After years of sitting in limbo like a case nobody wants to reopen, the Cold War franchise is finally moving again and instead of pushing forward, it’s digging straight into its own past. Cold War 1994 is one of two confirmed prequels, alongside Cold War 1995, backed by Edko Films. Both were shot back-to-back, with…
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WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS!!! (So don’t complain that I didn’t tell you) Listen up, you beautiful creeps and midnight movie maniacs. If you’re like me, you spend your nights digging through the digital bargain bins of on-demand services, like Burke and Hare searching for a fresh corpse. Well, I’ve just emerged from the deep dark depths…
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In 1978, Lau Kar-leung and the legendary Gordon Liu looked at the entire concept of the martial arts movie and decided that what people really wanted was an hour-long, granular, deep-dive into the most grueling vocational school in human history. No shortcuts. No inspirational pop song. Just pain, repetition, and the creeping realization that your…
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James Mark is back in the driver’s seat with Infiltrate, and this time it’s all gas, no brakes. Front and centre is Orphée Ladouceur-Nguyen, usually the one flipping through the air in stunt work, now stepping into the spotlight as the person causing the damage instead of just doubling it. She plays Agent Chen, dropped…
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If you ever find yourself thinking that modern movies are too polished, too coherent, or too reliant on things like consistent lighting and actors who are in the same country, then you need to sit down with Godfrey Ho’s Ninja Terminator. This isn’t just a movie; it’s the cinematic equivalent of a garage sale where…
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This is fucking brutal. The Furious isn’t easing you in with a warm-up, it’s kicking the door off its hinges and throwing four absolute monsters of martial arts cinema straight at you. Xie Miao, Joe Taslim, Jeeja Yanin, and Yayan Ruhian in the same film? That’s not a cast, that’s a warning label. The setup…
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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.…