Martial arts movies, especially ones featuring Sammo “moves well for a big fella” Hung, feature vast, dizzyingly complex fight sequences that feature hundreds, if not
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Dance Of The Drunk Mantis (1979) – Review
In 1994, Jackie Chan paid homage to his roots and he revisited the role that helped cement his credentials as a martial arts superstar. However,
The Concorde… Airport ’79 (1979) – Review
As something of a forgotten staple of the disaster film, the Airport franchise went out of its way for a decade to disprove the fact
Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) – Review
What makes a serious filmmaker want to remake a stone cold classic? Is it hubris; the assumption that they can better something that was just
Tourist Trap (1979) – Review
The 70s certainly knew how to hold it’s own when it came to the realms of weird-ass horror. Don Coscerelli’s gloriously trippy Phantasm effortlessly turned
The Shape Of Things To Come (1979) – Review
While George Lucas shouldn’t really be blamed for every cut price, dollar store, sci-fi rip-off he inflicted on history after birthing Star Wars onto a
The Warriors (1979) – Review
Here’s a message for all you boppers out there… Walter Hill was a filmmaker that enjoyed toying with stories that concerned themselves with unabashed alpha
Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) – Review
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
Elvis (1979) – Review
The filmography of John Carpenter may not be one that initially seems like it could be home to the legend known as Elvis Aaron Presley
Escape From Alcatraz (1979) – Review
Over four collaborations that had started in 1968 with Coogan’s Bluff and ended in 1971 with the seminal Dirty Harry, the team of Don Siegel
The Fearless Hyena (1979) – Review
After years of honing his particular brand of Kung fu laced with broad physical comedy in such flicks as Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow and
The Visitor (1979) – Review
I will be first to openly admit that I am utterly obsessed with The Visitor for reasons that aren’t unlike the near-religous fervor that was
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) – Review
The intergalactic mac daddy of TV shows boldly going over to the medium of film, Star Trek didn’t exactly have the triumphant start you would
The Brood (1979) – Review
Divorce does odd things to the creators of genre entertainment and I’m not talking about the stressful heartbreak of such films as Marriage Story or
Prophecy (1979) – Review
Eco-horror is possibly one of the stranger off-shoots of a genre that’s pretty strange to begin with, that boasts a pantheon of various, wonky releases
Zombie Flesh Eaters (Aka. Zombi 2) (1979) – Review
Let us mull over the career of Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci for a second, shall we?The undisputed king of trashy spaghetti splatter, the man
Phantasm (1979) – Review
During the 70’s, the horror genre had made huge steps in moving away from the cobwebby old backdrops of Hammer’s various movies thanks to the
Rocky II (1979) – Review
Back in 1979 sequels weren’t exactly the booming business it is now (example: pretty much every franchise ever made INCLUDING this one) but Sylvester Stallone
Mad Max (1979) – Review
Undoubtedly the crown jewel of of the 70’s Ozploitation explosion, George Miller’s blistering, dytopian 1979 revenge flick Mad Max kicked opened the doors for Australian
The Black Hole (1979) – Review
In a time where both Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and George Lucas’ Star Wars had not only both changed the face of Science Fiction cinema but
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