Monthly Archives: July 2021

Review: Cutie Honey (Japan 2004)

Posted on July 29, 2021 by David

Now THAT’S how to do a comic book superhero movie. Total live action cartoon full of bizarro touches and cheesecake, it’s genially sleazy in an old fashioned pin-up kind of way but maybe 1/10th as perverted as the original Go … Continue reading →

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Review: Phantom of Death aka Off Balance (Italy 1988)

Posted on July 14, 2021 by David

Man, ‘80s-era Ruggero Deodato is so batshit crazy. Stellar cast (Michael York, Donald Pleasence, Edwidge Fenech) and crew (Pino Donaggio does the music!) in service of a semi-nonsensical giallo about York as a professional pianist/part-time ninja (yes, you read that … Continue reading →

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Review: Zulu Dawn (UK 1979)

Posted on July 10, 2021 by David

If the British clinging on by a thread in Zulu (1964) pissed you off, this is the movie to watch. A prequel to Zulu, Zulu Dawn shows the British stumbling into the absolute fiasco that was the Battle of Isandhlwana, … Continue reading →

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