about 3 weeks ago - No comments
It looks like this will be April’s only entry in the AMG Dirty Dozen: at least it is a fairly action-packed entry. It’s drawn entirely from Your Humble Reviewer’s 2003 reviews for All Movie Guide and the bill of fare includes Jacopetti and Prosperi’s best mondo-shocker, a psycho killer flick that doubles as a commentary More >
about 1 month ago - No comments
Here’s a dozen reviews from Your Humble Reviewer’s work for All Movie Guide during 2003. Subjects include the least interesting example of all the successful big-budget disaster flicks, an early John Woo movie that shows off his skill for action as well as his pet themes and Mad Magazine’s misbegotten attempt to make a Hollywood More >
about 2 months ago - No comments
The first AMG Dirty Dozen of the spring brings with it a typically eccentric mixture of fare: there’s a stunningly tacky Hong Kong film that exploits the mid-1990’s ebola panic, John Wayne doing his own variation of Dirty Harry and a star-studded rip-off of The Wild Bunch. Speaking of Sam Peckinpah, this column’s Mea Culpa More >
about 3 months ago - No comments
As we edge closer to Valentine’s Day, perhaps you should think about your love of offbeat and cultish cinema. Indulge your inner eclectic cinephile with this smörgåsbord of picks: the fare includes Sam Peckinpah’s most uniquely personal film, an underrated entry in Hong Kong’s “heroic bloodshed” genre and a film where Stuart Whitman gets in More >
about 3 months ago - No comments
A new year brings a new set of opportunities to check out vintage schlock. With that in mind, check out the latest installment of the AMG Dirty Dozen. The latest dozen reviews from Your Humble Reviewer’s All Movie Guide review repertoire (2002 vintage, to be specific) cover a diverse array of cult-cinema viewing material: there’s More >
about 6 months ago - No comments
Welcome back to the AMG Dirty Dozen, in which Your Humble Reviewer unearths twelve reviews from his past a freelance reviewer for All Movie Guide. This time, we’ve got a Jonathan Demme movie about a 1970’s craze that doubles as an exploration of small town Americana, Your Humble Reviewer’s favorite James Bond movie and the More >
about 8 months ago - No comments
Step back in time to the era when Your Humble Reviewer covered the catalog-title beat as a freelancer for All Movie Guide and enjoy another dozen oddities and cult faves ferreted out from video stores. This installment of the AMG includes a classic blaxploitation/kung-fu crossover, two ninja flicks from Cannon studios, one of Chuck Norris’s More >
about 10 months ago - 2 comments
The AMG Dirty Dozen is back for a nice mid-summer installment that offers a fun tour through exploitation cinema of yesteryear (plus the occasional mainstream crossover into exploitation trends). Blaxploitation is heavily represented — including an all-time Schlockmania fave in Penitentiary — and there is also a blackly comic horror gem in Deranged and a More >
about 12 months ago - No comments
As is usually the case, this edition of the AMG Dirty Dozen offers a witches’ brew of celluloid escapism as it links up to twelve All Movie Guide reviews penned by Your Humble Reviewer way back in 2002. There’s the best of all drug-horror films in Blue Sunshine, a psycho-sexual thriller about a computer in More >
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
After a nearly year-long hiatus, the AMG Dirty Dozen makes its triumphant return to Schlockmania (for those who don’t know about this feature, an intro can be read here). As usual, this installment serves up 12 vintage reviews from Your Humble Reviewer’s career as a freelancer with All Movie Guide. On the action tip, we’ve More >
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE: http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/beyond-the-poseidon-adventure-v5294/review
EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVES VOL. 2: SOCIAL ENGINEERING 101: http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/educational-archives-social-engineering-101-v254493/review
