The Debt Collector (2018)

I’ve seen more of Scott Adkins’ YouTube interview series Art Of Action than I have the half-a-dozen DTV Scott Adkins’ action movies that come out every year. Adkins is a great interviewer of action stars and stunt people, always delighted and respectful to the people he’s talking to. Aside from Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning, […]

The Evil That Men Do (1984)

Friday night, kicking back on the couch, and I was in the mood for some Eighties Charles Bronson. Even if the movies are beneath Bronson’s resolute, granite-like presence, they are still compelling to me even if they go through the Death Wish motions. The Evil That Men Do (1984) again reunites Bronson with director J. […]

Keoma (1976)

I remember seeing a scene from Keoma (1976), a Franco Nero spaghetti western, on SBS Cult Movies a long time ago and hearing some of its discordant, strange soundtrack, and never forgetting it. Scored by Guido and Maurizo De Angelis (who had already made a lasting impression on me recently with their weird theme to […]

Inferno (1999)

In my quest to cover Jean-Claude Van Damme’s late 1990s period, and sift through the direct-to-video releases for any hidden gems, we ride into Inferno (1999), which works as Van Damme’s version of a modern western. He gets to rock a pair of jeans, wear a singlet, sport a straw hat, and wander through a […]

The Boss (1973)

Henry Silva made a career out of playing heavies and gangsters over many decades. Alongside Jack Palance, their distinctive features didn’t necessarily make them the matinee idol hero leading man type. In the world of American actors working in Italy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, however, they could be tough guy main characters, the leading […]