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Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters (Taiwan 1968)
Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 “We are big strong men. Why should we worry about three little girls?” Oh, buddy, you should, you really should. This early Taiwanese wuxia about three separated sisters seeking revenge on the men … Continue reading
Review: The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (Taiwan 1968)
Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 The first film in the loose Swordsman of All Swordsman trilogy could not be more different than the awesomely goofy Ghost Hill, it’s a deadly serious revenge film (Stock Wuxia Plot #4, kid … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968, OSKFF, Polly Shang-Kuan, Subway Cinema, Taiwan, Wuxia
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Review: The Ghost Hill (Taiwan 1971)
Subway Cinema’s 9th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2021 Well this was an unexpected pleasure. An absolutely buck wild wuxia full of delightful nonsense, crazy weapons, and traps. Harpoon hands. Darts in the shape of the Chinese character for “death” … Continue reading
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Tagged 1971, OSKFF, Polly Shang-Kuan, Subway Cinema, Taiwan, Wuxia
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Review: The King of Wuxia (Taiwan 2022)
Subway Cinema’s 10th Old School Kung Fu Festival 2023 2023’s OSKFF (schedule here) is kicking off this Friday, April 14, with an absolute monster – Lin Jing-Jie’s massive, comprehensive documentary on King Hu, possibly the most influential and important Chinese … Continue reading
Review: Tenebre (Italy 1982)
Last time I saw Tenebrae (10-15 years ago?), I was so distracted by the banging Goblin score, and the tracking camera, and the ultra sleaze, and the ultra violence, and the absolutely bonkers plot twists, I failed to appreciate how … Continue reading
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Tagged 1982, Dario Argento, Giallo, Horror, Italy, John Saxon
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Review: Red Crow and the Ghost Ship (Japan 1989)
When you have a magical flying sloop designed by Hayao Miyazaki and staffed by a muppet crow created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, who are you going to get to captain the ship? Jo F’in Shishido, of course. Very short, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1989, Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, Jim Henson, Jo Shishido
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Review: The Mystery of the Green Spider (West Germany 1960)
Ein Musikkrimi, per its title, a murder mystery set at a cabaret to maximize musical performances, hell, they even launch into one to distract the audience during the second murder. Definitely in a similar vein to Phantom of the Paradise … Continue reading
Review: Red Sun (France/Italy/Spain 1971)
Bronson-mania! Is this Toshiro Mifune-Charles Bronson “fish out of water Eastern warrior trying to recover a lost national treasure teams up with roguish Western outlaw cowboy” the first instance of the same plot used again by The Stranger and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, France, Italy, Luc Merenda, Spaghetti Western, Spain, Toshiro Mifune, Ursula Andress, Western
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Review: Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (USA 1968)
“Almost sounds like a girl.” “A girl? Perhaps. Or a monster.” I’d call this Bog’s What’s Up Tiger Lily but that would be giving it waaayyyy more credit than it deserves. This is just some Corman-purchased Soviet space flick footage that Bog … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968, Peter Bogdanovich, Russia, USA
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Review: In Search of My Wife’s Husband (Morocco 1993)
I just got back from a 9 day trip to Morocco last night, and holy shit, what an amazing time. Went all over, Fez, Marrakech, Casablanca, the edge of the Sahara, the Todhra Gorge, ate like a king, sfenj donuts, … Continue reading