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Ninja Masters of Death Review
I stumbled across this movie the other night (actually I knew about it but only had seen the ending a few times, which we’ll get to) and decided to watch it in order to put myself to sleep. It’s another Godfrey Ho concoctions, this time where he takes the alias of Bruce Lambert. But I…
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The Magnificent Ruffians (1979) Review
The Magnificent Ruffians (1979) aka The Destroyers is another Venoms classic movie. It doesn’t have Wei Pai and that slot is filled by the 7th Venom of Wong Lik, who actually is a good guy in this. This movie is possibly Lu Feng’s magnum opus when it comes to him being able to fully display…
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Shaolin Hand Lock (1978) Review
This movie really should be renamed David Chiang on a Thailand vacation. It’s not a particularly great movie especially in the genre of kung fu but if you like David Chiang and/or Lo Lieh, you might want to check it out as another Shaw Brothers movie. But it’s surprisingly not a Chang Cheh flick which…
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Dynasty (1977): Kung Fu Movie Review
As with Rage of the Dragon, Dynasty (1977) was a movie I had been searching for, taking no less than four decades to discover. It was through a very obscure scene and the fact that I vaguely recalled it coming on channel 13 during one of those kung fu weeks/weekends where they had five special…
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Return of the 18 Bronzemen: Review
After checking out that Rage of the Dragon movie, I decided to give another Carter Wong movie a chance: Return of the 18 Bronzemen. I think my family had this or the one before it but I didn’t have any interest in watching it until now. The only Carter Wong movies I’m really familiar with…
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Rage of the Dragon: Review
Rarely in life do you manage to actually find something that you’ve been looking for that hasn’t rotten to obscurity. However, in the case of a pair of movies, I uncovered one such thing that I’ve been hunting down for four decades. The thing is an old, bizarre kung fu movie called Rage of the…
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Aliens: The Perfect Movie or Inherently Flawed?
Every year, I watch the classic James Cameron movie Aliens as a sort of nod towards reminding myself why I got into creative writing in the first place. Also, it’s simply one of the best movies of all time and possibly my favorite. However, on this viewing, a few things stuck out to me that…
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Disney’s The Black Hole: Movie Review
This probably is my biggest guilty pleasure of a movie. While Star Wars was the cool film to love as a kid of the 80s, The Black Hole was something people ignored or ridiculed mostly denigrating it as a Star Wars knock off. The accusations were well deserved as the movie itself in retrospect did…
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Shaw Brothers The Shaolin Temple Movie Review
I haven’t done one of these in a while but recently re-watched The Shaolin Temple online. It’s one of my favorite Shaw Brothers classic movies, even though, in truth, it really wasn’t a great movie. The key thing about this movie was the all star cast, which features almost all the top names under the…
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Alien: Brett Cocoon vs Brett Egg
Recently, I ran across a video showing rare footage of HR Giger painting a prop of Brett in a cocoon. The description of the video made it sound gruesome in terms of the cocoon being more hideous. Turns out it was the same cocoon from HR Giger’s Alien book.