Alligator (1980)
David Madison (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown) is a Chicago homicide detective assigned to investigate body parts that keep showing up in the city's sewer system. When the culprit turns out to be an...
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When The Iron Lady came out, my better half surprised me by expressing serious interest in seeing it. The Baroness is not generally prone to a desire to see the biopics of conservative icons, but her...
View ArticleInvisible Invaders (1959)
After atomic scientist Dr. Karl Noymann (John Carradine, The Boogeyman) dies in a lab accident, a strange thing happens: he shows up, alive, on the doorstep of his colleague Dr. Penner (Philip Tonge)....
View ArticleVamp (1986)
Keith (Chris Makepeace, The Last Chase) and AJ (Robert Rusler, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge) are roommates, best friends, and co-conspirators; or at least, AJ gets Keith to go along on...
View ArticleUp Tight!
Tank (Julian Mayfield) is an alcoholic. He's also in a black militant group, but when he is too drunk (in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination) to participate in an arms robbery, the other...
View ArticleDjango Unchained
Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) is a bounty hunter in the American West and South in 1858, just three years before the start of the Civil War. He seeks out Django (Jamie Foxx) because Django can...
View ArticleMinistry of Vengeance
During Vietnam, a unit led by Col. Freeman (James Tolkan, They Might Be Giants) is ambushed. One member of the unit disappears down a tunnel, so Freeman sends his best man, David Miller (John...
View ArticleSaving Private Perez
Crime lord Julian Perez's (Miguel Rodarte) mother Elvira (Isela Vega, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia) demands just one thing from her estranged son: the rescue of his younger, honest brother who...
View ArticleSouth Shore Movie Guild Review: The Ultimate Weapon (1998)
The South Shore Movie Guild meets typically once a month, usually to watch something in the horror/sci-fi/action genres in quality running from high (usually a horror movie) to abjectly terrible...
View ArticleThe Corruption of Devotion in The Grapes of Death
The Grapes of Death (1978) (Les Raisins de la Mort) Directed by Jean Rollin Written by Jean Rollin and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou Jean Rollin is notorious for the 1981 film “Zombie Lake”, with its cheap...
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