Security (2017)

Antonio Banderas’ soulful performance in Pain And Glory made me really re-appreciate him as an actor. But also seeing him carry a Direct to Video action movie called Security (2017) was another testament to his presence and talent. Banderas is not sleep walking through this moderately budgeted B-movie Die Hard rip off where he plays […]

Deep Rising (1998)

More spooky movie reviews for Halloween! 🎃 Deep Rising (1998) was in the Roger Ebert book, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie and Ebert didn’t like it. Generally the film’s received negative reviews. Maybe it was just the slew of Aliens rip-offs around the late 1990s and the number of action horror flicks that took […]

Best Of The Best 2 (1993)

Best Of The Best 2 (1993): definitely a title I saw in a video store magazine as a kid and was like, “There was a Best Of The Best 1?” Thanks to a VHS rip on YouTube, I know all about the first movie now, which I did enjoy, a late-1980s martial arts melodrama with […]

Psychomania (1973)

The opening credits to Psychomania (1973) aka The Death Wheelers are such a vibe. Helmeted bikers riding around a Stonehenge-type clearing in the mist while droney psychedelic rock plays. This reaches a level of eerie that the remainder of the movie doesn’t quite reach. Still, that’s not a knock, this is an entertaining 1970s British […]

Night In Paradise (2020)

Night In Paradise (2020; aka Nagwonui bam) is good but not great, but it is an interesting South Korean movie that might have slipped past notice as a Netflix Original. Directed by Park Hoon-jung (screenwriter of I Saw The Devil), the film is like a meeting point between a violent gangster film and a slow […]