If you’ve had the pleasure of seeing recent documentary Electric Boogaloo: the Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, it’s feasible that, like myself, you may well have found yourself anxious to see these three movies. In many respects, this trilogy might well be the perfect embodiment of the Cannon Films ethos. The output of producers […]
This fascinating, equal parts inspirational and cautionary tale might rival Macbeth in its portrayal of the cost of ambition – and for this writer, plus many other British readers who were around in the 1980s, there’s a curiously personal element given how that ambition had rather significant consequences in the UK. The matter only comes […]
Opening disclaimer: at the time of writing I’ve yet to get through the entire seven disc Blu-ray set that Studiocanal have lovingly put together for Series 5 of TV classic The Avengers (in the wake of series 4 enjoying similar treatment earlier this year). However, I just had to bring this review forward a little, […]
By Keri O’Shea Dreams are curious things; they can be a distillation of the deepest anxieties and fears which leave people cold long after waking, or they can be pure wish fulfillment – but in either incarnation, the way the brain can weave elements into a narrative is clearly always going to be appealing, fertile […]
By Keri O’Shea Look, I was going to try to play coy on the source of the horror in this film, but seeing as ‘Night of the Wolf’ has been added to the title (sigh), and that to avoid any residual ambiguity there’s a massive savage wolf on the cover art, there’s little point really. […]
By Keri O’Shea I always make it a point never to read reviews of new films I’m about to review: some people may be better than I am at filtering out the opinions of others before forming one of their own, but it’s not so for me. I find it virtually impossible not to carry […]
How well can a TV show hold up after fifty years? Surprisingly well, it turns out. No doubt we could pick and choose any number of once-popular shows from the 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s and be overwhelmed by how dated they feel, how old hat the storytelling and dialogue seem, how cheesy and […]
By Ben Bussey And so, one writer’s Troma education continues. Up until only a few months ago, pretty much all I’d seen from the famed trash cinema factory were the original Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke ‘Em High (or at least those are the only ones that come to mind). However, after 88 Films […]
Review by Ben Bussey So- how does one go about making a sequel to a film as knowingly absurd and excessive as Troma’s original Toxic Avenger? With some difficulty, it would seem. As much as Troma’s output is designed to be more or less critic proof – that old ‘so bad it’s good’ thing – […]
Review by Ben Bussey This, for better or worse, is one of those “where it all began” movies. Though Troma had already been in the filmmaking/distribution game for a full decade before The Toxic Avenger came along, this is the film on which their legend is built, and with which their enduring formula was established: […]
Review by Tristan Bishop I have a feeling Robert Rodriguez might be a vampire himself. Let alone how he doesn’t seem to age (he looks a good twenty years younger than 45), he doesn’t even seem to sleep. The last 12 months have seen him direct Machete Kills and the forthcoming Sin City: A Dame […]