R-Point
R-Point is a decent entry in the war-horror film, creating many incredibly effective scenes but ultimately proving to be a bit of a disappointment because it’s almost a great film, which is often worse than just being a bad film. This is one of those movies that just needed one more revision of the script [...]
It takes more than the flu to put me down. Hell, it takes more than a brain stem stroke. Which means that a chunky wanna-be Max Schreck wandering around Romania trying to be the Angel of Death in Talisman (1998), yet another late ’90’s Full Moon production, really doesn’t send me screaming, you know? That’s [...]
Dharem-Veer
Dharam-Veer is a movie designed to thrill, and it succeeds on all of the intended levels, as well as on many levels that probably weren’t so intentional. In addition to the thrill of watching its spectacular musical numbers and beautiful stars, there is the singular thrill that comes from seeing combinations of color and fabric [...]
Don
For much of the film, Don alternates between more modern dress — slick slim-cut suits, hooded sweatshirts, and so on — and an array of garish shirts from the “Amitabh ‘78″ collection. But the crowning achievement is the innovation of the “inner tie,” a brightly colored tie worn around one’s bare neck rather than [...]
New stuff at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting:
The Mad Genius (1931), in which the deja vu may actually give you seizures if you’ve already seen Svengali…
The Serpent’s Tale (1993), in which there are vampires and ancient scrolls and a loony cult and an evil multinational corporation and an insurance fraud scam, and it all kind of makes [...]
… one too many times./I tripped over the Ottoman/until I lost my mind.”
And that curiously-appropriate Dead Milkmen lyric brings me to Badi, the “Turkish E.T.”, one of the most appalling attempts at family entertainment I’ve ever had to suffer through.
Will Laughlin is the Braineater.
The Turkish love for masked superhero movies spills over into Saturday Matinee serials as The Mysterious Doctor Satan is plundered and transformed into The Deathless Devil. The 1940’s Copperhead runs headlong into 1970s Eurospy territory with wanton villainesses and, sadly, the near-Lovecraftian horror of an Odious Comic Relief in a Sherlock Holmes outfit. Who [...]
Tarkan, the Turkish soldier of Attila the Hun raised by wolves, fights Vikings, a giant, a treacherous ‘Chinese’ woman, a big rubber octopus, and logic in general in Tarkan vs. the Vikings. The end of the month hasn’t technically occurred yet, and my roundtable piece is up. I’m legal!
Ken Begg is the [...]
SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. THE MONSTERS
After this initial orgy of monster mayhem, the rest of Contra los Monstruos unfolds as a rapid series of vignettes in which the monsters, the evil Blue Demon, and the green-faced zombies, in various combinations–though most frequently as one large and unruly group–attack Santo and try to kidnap Gloria, [...]
(Yes, yes, I know: it’s İstanbul, not Constantinople. But I too have been a long time gone, so there you have it.)
Büyü (2004)
What would you expect from a movie currently rated by IMDb users as the 22nd worst film of all time? Would you expect a thoroughly average, occasionally inspired horror flick? Hmmm?
You would?
Well then, [...]
Well, it’s a bumper edition of Et Al. this time….but for all that, there was never any doubt in my mind who was going to be this issue’s Pin-Up Of The Month. He even beat out an undead Humphrey Bogart!
Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
Asia-Pol
Asia-Pol in many ways fits in with the spate of James Bond knock-offs that Shaw turned out between 1966 and 1968, but also exhibits some significant differences that can most likely be chalked up to its Nikkatsu pedigree. For one, while the action of those aforementioned films was largely limited to what could be shot [...]
Even the most beautiful love song must end.
Ken Begg is the proprietor of Jabootu: The Bad Movie Dimension.
Then get ready for a tale of action, tragic love, and most of all, tragic music, and be prepared to rock the night away with Knight Rider: The Ballad of Stevie and Michael, Part 2.
Ken Begg is the proprietor of Jabootu: The Bad Movie Dimension.
Did you know that Michael Knight once got married, lost his wife, and tracked down her killer all in one VERY SPECIAL episode of Knight Rider? I did. I saw that show back in the ’80s and never forgot its glory. I knew I was destined to review it one day.
Did you know that the [...]
I could say that this week’s new review, 3 Dev Adam (1973) was chosen not only as part of the Cabal’s “Ottoman Empire Strikes Back” roundtable, but specifically to coincide with the unveiling of the “new” Captain America in the Marvel Universe. But no, it’s just a happy happenstance, the kind upon which my [...]
Well, I can hardly let Lyz be the only B-Master to chime in on the “Ottoman Empire Strikes Back” round table!
KILINK STRIP AND KILL
We soon learn that Kilink has to attend a conference in New York, and I was instantly chilled by the thought of Kilink checking his Blackberry obsessively while sitting in a board [...]
Jabootu contributor Chris Magyar jumps on a cinematic bomb and has the (head and stomach) aches to prove it. From the way he tells it, Lindsey Lohan’s already infamous I Know Who Killed Me certainly knows how to leave a viewer, not to mention every other damn thing, blue. We can only await with fervor [...]
Three weeks or so ago, I braved the frozen, wind-blasted hellscape that is Chicago in the depths of winter in order to watch 24 uninterupted hours of crummy movies. This is what we call “dedication”– that or “complete idiocy.” Either way, this is what I saw that I hadn’t gotten around to reviewing yet:
Barbarella (1968), [...]
First, Teleport City has finally managed to expand itself somewhat and add a couple new writers. That’s our hoopla. And to celebrate, new reviews from the new blood:
Mr. India
The film boasts alternately maudlin and jingoistic appeals to patriotism, a small army of aggressively cute children who are shamelessly exploited for cheap pathos whenever the [...]