If you're interested in the subversive side of genre
cinema, Nikkatsu's "Roman Porno" era is a fascinating subject for
study. This was ostensibly a line of sex...
Volume by volume, the 42nd Street Forever Peep Show Collection has stacked up the entries
to become a mainstay of the Impulse Pictures library. In fact, the se...
If you are a bibliophile with a yen for vintage
paperbacks from the less respectable side of the tracks - men's action novels, horror books, tabloid
cash...
Eclecticism is often the name of the game with the AMG Dirty Dozen. This installment is no different. This time you've got an underrated cop flick with Jeff Br...
If Rambo was the unexpected success of 2008, Rambo: Last Blood will be remembered as the surprise controversy of 2019's autumn season. It was announced as a f...
When Sylvester Stallone made a low-key, heartfelt revival of his most famous character with Rocky Balboa in 2006, it was unexpected but welcome with open arms ...
The Rambo
films have an enduring popularity as a franchise but there doesn't seem to be a
lot of love for Rambo III specifically.
It tends to inspire a ho-hum ...
1985 was very good to Sylvester Stallone at the box office: he enjoyed two titanic hits with sequels to past successes, Rocky IV and Rambo: First Blood Part II...
The theme for September's AMG Dirty Dozens could be
described a few different ways. If you want to be a wag, you could call them grab-bags. If you're a b...
When people talk about the Rambo series, the discussion
is usually colored by Rambo: First
Blood, Part II and its cartoon-lunatic excesses. The more knowledgea...
It is
simultaneously the most famous and most infamous of Stephen King's formidable
bibliography. Until the unexpurgated version of The Stand was released a fe...
The relationship between Stephen King's novels and
television stretches as far back as 1979 with the original two-part miniseries
of Salem's Lot but said relat...
Schlockmaniac #1, alias Your Humble Reviewer.
The person behind this affront to High Culture is Don Guarisco. He has a BFA Degree in Film from Florida State University and has written professionally about pop culture for over a decade. His work in the online arena includes reviews and essays for Yesterdayland (now known as Retroland), All Music Guide, All Movie Guide, AVManiacs and The Temple Of Schlock. His reviews have also been published in several All Music Guide publications and DVD Delirium 3.
