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Return Of The Street Fighter (1974) – Review

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With 1974’s The Street Fighter we were introduced to one Terry Tsurugi (or Sugury, depending on which version you watch), an anti-hero that leaned so

The Street Fighter (1974) – Review

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The anti-hero is a magnificently cinematic concept that allows us to follow the exploits of people who freely go out and do the types of

The People That Time Forgot (1977) – Review

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As a young child, any kind of public holiday meant that the lunchtime airwaves would be alive with movies of varying genres and even more

Lone Wolf And Cub: White Heaven In Hell (1974) – Review

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After cranking out five films in a little under two years, the landscape that lay behind the scenes of the Lone Wolf And Cub series

Taxi Driver (1976) – Review

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If you’re talking about characters having their sanity stripped from them like some much peeling paint, then you have to start with Taxi Driver.Martin Scorsese’s

Four Flies On Grey Velvet (1971) – Review

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Dario Argento has been dubbed the master of horror more times than I’ve had hot dinners – and I’m not usually known for skipping too

The Driver (1978) – Review

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Walter Hill’s 1978 thriller is one of those movies that’s managed to affect popular culture without being that well known to the general public. Not

Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart In The Land Of Demons (1973) – Review

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After wisely taking a brief time-out after churning out the first three Lone Wolf And Cub movies in under a year, Kenji Misumi returned to

Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) – Review

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You’d think that having a disparate group of survivors fight to escape the upside-down hellscape of an upturned ocean liner would be drama enough, but

Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) – Review

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During their golden years, Hammer films released horror movies that contained everything from Werewolves, Gorgons, zombies and a shit load of Vampires of varying genders

The Land That Time Forgot (1974) – Review

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Back when Hammer Films were flexing their muscles with their substantial amount of horror releases and fantasy films, Amicus Productions were carving their own little

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) – Review

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After six movies that followed a distinct rinse and repeat pattern of its fangy star rising from the dead, terrorising a handful of people and

Smokey And The Bandit (1977) – Review

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When pondering the nature of the redneck action comedy, there’s two titles that immediately spring to mind. One is the the infamous, Eastwood and an

Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart To Hades (1972) – Review

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Much like the unbroken resolve of the unfeasibly stoic Lone Wolf (aka. ex executioner for the Shogunate and awesome/terrible parent Ogami Ittõ), the Lone Wolf

Horror Of Frankenstein (1970) – Review

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It’s said that doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results is a sure way to measure insanity and while the

At The Earth’s Core (1976) – Review

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Sometimes a movie is so relentlessly cheesy and dated that it virtually becomes critic proof. Take that series of epically staged Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations