This was a charming little low-budget comedy with a street killer twist. Directed by Bob Logan and starring Linda Blair, Murray "The Unknown Comic" Langston, Bob Zany, Ruth Buzzi, Johnny Dark, Melissa Shear, Glen Vincent, Jack Hanrahan and Kevin Benton.
Lots of great characters and good jokes in this one, i epecially loved Johnny Dark as Nick.
Vickie Adderly: I'm sorry, I don't know your name. Nick: Call me by my nickname. Vickie Adderly: Ok, what's your nickname? Nick: Nick."
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Gleaming the Cube (1989). Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Richard Herd, Ed Lauter, Micole Mercurio, Charles Cyphers and Le Tuan. After his Vietnamese foster brother is found hanged in a hotel, a skateboarding enthusiast youth undertakes to track down the murderers with the help of a homicide detective.
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Gulag (1985). David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, David Suchet, Warren Clarke and John McEnery. An American athlete turned sports reporter who is covering the athletics in Moscow is falsely incriminated by the KGB for spying and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a gulag, from which he tries to escape.
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Stranded (1987). Ione Skye, Maureen O'Sullivan, Joe Morton, Susan Barnes, Cameron Dye, Michael Greene, Brendan Hughes, Gary Swanson, Flea, Florence Schauffler, Spice Williams, Dennis Vero, Harry Ceaser, Kevin Haley, Nathan LeGrand and Jeff Levine. An adolescent girl and her grandmother are taken hostage in their home by aliens who have come to earth.
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Bronco Billy (1980) - Not too bad. The one thing I like about Clint Eastwood is that he teaches you not to buy into taken for granted ideas. He plays by his own rules in a good way. I like Geoffrey Lewis too even if he is in every Eastwood movie.
I would probably give it a 6/10.
Lock Up (1989) - Pretty decent prison movie. Stallone is good as always. Sonny Landham is good as the lead jailhouse goon and some other good performances by Tom Sizemore (Even if he is deep fried he's still good) and James Amos. Donald Sutherland is OK too I guess but never been a big fan of his.
I would give this an 7.5/10
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last night i watched return of the living dead for the first time in quite a while and it's still as great as i remembered it.
watched it on the new u.k blu ray release from second sight which has created quite a stir amongst its fans as it's the first time i think since its initial release that it has featured its original audio track.
picture quality overall was not to bad but i did notice some scenes looked razor shap where as other scenes seemed fairly soft and grainy in comparison,saying that i think it has more to do with the way it was shot.
audio was pretty decent,it's only 2 channel stereo lossless audio so nothing from my surrounds but it sounded very clear.
another thing i've read about this disc is even though it's locked to region b a lot of u.s fans who have purchased the disc have managed to get it to play on there ps3's
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watched the 4th entry in the death wish series,this was the first one not to be helmed by brit director michael winner,here we have veteran director j lee thompson.
thompson is a very accomplished director and his previous collaborations with bronson had turned out some real gems with 10 to midnight and the evil that men do being two of my personal faves.
charles bronson still looking lean and mean at 66
gone are the graphic rape scenes from the previous entries, though there is an attempted assault on a woman in a carpark at the begining of the move but it doesn't escalate to anything like the nastiness of the gang rape scene in say death wish 2 (uncut).
what we have here is a very fast paced, fun entry in the series which seems much lighter in tone than what's gone before,bronson is great as usual and still looked very agile at 66 years of age.
john p ryan as the ruthless drug dealer nathan white
the late great john p ryan plays the ruthless drug dealer nathan white and makes for one hell of a bad guy,soon tek oh (who played the evil colonel yin in missing in action 2 )plays the crooked detective on the trail of the vigilante paul kersey(bronson).
kay lenz
also stars the lovely kay lenz and danna barron(vacation),also look out for a youthful looking danny trejo as one of the mob guys who gets to experience first hand kersey's (bronson) brand of justice.
bronson and danny trejo (discussing face lotions)
overall i really enjoyed 1987s death wish 4,it moves at such a fast pace that any of the daftness of the plot just goes straight over your head! i'd give it a solid 8/10.
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Thanks for the cool Death Wish 4 review, warrior! I own the dvd and need to check out the film again one of these days.
Cocktail is a fun flick, really like the Starship tune. The whole Love Among the Cannibals album rocks!
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Nice Writeup, Warrior. I need to pickup Death Wish 4.
You should definitely check out "Cocktail" -- it's not a classic by any means, but a great movie to watch on a slow Sunday afternoon.
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"A sadistic military commander turns the training of recruits for POW conditions into a life threatening ordeal for a young woman."
This was a nice little training camp gone wrong flick directed by Eric Karson (The Octagon, Black Eagle) Starring Lisa Eichhorn, Tom Skerritt, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Roundtree and Robert Wightman.
It played a lot on tv here somewhere around 1990. It was released on a DVD-r from MGM only a few months ago, but for some reason those MGM DVD-r's are hard to get over here. The import dvd-store where i buy most of my movies can't get them, which is strange because they occasionally do sell DVD-r's from Sony and Warner Archives.
MGM released Pray for Death, Up the Creek, Act of Vengeance (aka The Rape Squad), Malone and Defiance on DVD-r as well.. all movies i would buy if i had the chance.
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, this is probably my biggest guilty pleasure. Despite it's many flaws, it's an enjoyable, fun, movie.
