In the '70s and '80s, the Italian genre film mill was as
trend-conscious as it got. Whatever the new commercial cinema craze was - crime
films, post-apocalypti...
For roughly a decade, starting with Bloodsport in 1988 and ending sometime around Knock Off in 1998, Jean-Claude Van Damme was one of the world's top
action fi...
Author's
Disclosure: I'm friends with Mark Savage so don't think of what follows as a review.
Consider it more of an essay, a response to the work informed by ...
It's funny how you sometimes develop respect for
something you first thought was just a cultural oddity. Schlockmania first
experienced Rudy Ray Moore's films ...
The peak period for the giallo film was arguably the
first half of the '70s: Dario Argento made a string of gialli that became
popular around the world, inspir...
It's amazing how far the zombie movie has come in the
last few decades. It's gone from a cult fave subgenre for horror fans to one of
the most reliable commerc...
Disaster movies have been with us since the silent film
era but common wisdom has the prime era of disaster movies beginning in 1970
with Airport. Howeve...
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 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 ...
