Anyone who has watched the thoroughly unnecessary Dirty Dozen TV movie, Deadly Mission, will probably agree that it’s an extremely pale imitation of an original
Tag: 1980s
Revenge Of The Ninja (1983) – Review
If I’ve said it once on this site, I’ve said it a thousand times, sometimes the thread marking the barriers between a bad film, a
Watchers (1988) – Review
I think it’s a fair comment to state that Dean R. Koontz hasn’t quite had the same luck as Stephen King when it comes to
Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Review
It may be a supremely callous thing to suggest, but even though the horror of the Vietnam war devastated an entire generation, split a country
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) – Review
True story. When I watched The Fatal Mission, the fourth and final entry into the thoroughly unnecessary trio of TV movie sequels to follow The
Enter The Ninja (1981) – Review
While the 80s where hardly a fortress of restraint, surely one of the most amusing tropes of the decade was Cannon Films’ insistence that action
The Stuff (1985) – Review
Arguably the face of 80s horror satire, Larry Cohen made his name delivering a string of absurd B-movie premises such as killer babies and flying,
Dead & Buried (1981) – Review
When you think of 80s horror, chances are you’ll conjure in your mind one of the nearly endless string of slashers that dominated the start
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985) – Review
You just don’t get that many war time sequels, do you?I mean, there’s certainly enough characters who have served in the military who tend to
The Karate Kid Part III (1989) – Review
Just how much mileage can you get out of a young Karate student and his bond with this aging mentor? Well, if you’re John G.
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) – Review
While I’ve always found The Karate Kid to be too twee for my personal tastes, I have to say I do get why the high-kicking
Wild Geese II (1985) – Review
When it comes to well formulated plans of grizzled dudes going wildly awry, the story behind Wild Geese II manages to somehow match the rather
Anthropophagous (1980) – Review
Despite coming saddled with a title that I’ve never been accurately able to pronounce, Anthropophagous (also known among other things as The Grim Reaper), comes
The Karate Kid (1984) – Review
It had to happen sooner or later…There comes a time when every diligent movie blogger finds when they’ve no choice but to have to sit
Golgo 13: The Professional (1983) – Review
While the natural state of an animated movie from Japan is to use it’s near limitless medium to concoct wild, fantasy worlds, or grim dystopian
Lensman (1984) – Review
Chances are, if you’re from an older generation, you’ve probably been affected (or infected as the case may be) by Anime long before you ever
Escape From The Bronx (1983) – Review
You have to hand it to Italian maestro of mayhem, Enzo G. Castellari. Why even give the slightest of shits about such things as an
Venus Wars (1989) – Review
The issue of style over substance is something that is just as highly subjective to an individual moviegoer as comedy, or what kind of horror
The Company Of Wolves (1984) – Review
The 1980s saw its fair share of werewolf movies that broke the mold and played fast and loose with the conventions and lore of lycanthropy
Vampire Hunter D (1985) – Review
Throughout the early 80s, Anime as we knew it was more directed at families, or animated series airing on television; but in 1985, one of
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