Blob ’88 People who (rightfully) complain about today’s abundance of remakes have literally every justification to do so, as most of the original versions of these movies were still already produced in the “modern” era of films, that period being after the mid to late 1960s when the old (censorship) Production Code was abolished and […]
Blood Diamond While not exactly a shining postcard designed to promote tourism to the continent of Africa, the most notable aspect of Edward Zwick’s film is the stunning maturation of Leonardo DeCaprio as an actor. As Danny Archer, diamond smuggler and mercenary, DiCaprio proves that he’s miles ahead of his bland pretty boy from Titanic. […]
Blood Feast After being immortalized and re-introduced to younger audiences through his referencing in the recent movie Juno, Herschell Gordon Lewis has now taken his rightful place as the Godfather Of Gore, the first true filmmaker to showcase graphic violence in cinema and use it as the main selling point of the films in question, […]
Blood Sisters One thing that becomes certain as this movie begins is that director Roberta Findlay ain’t exactly one of the Great Masters. The visuals are way too tight, and parts look like it was shot thru a fishbowl. The “action” begins when a hideously obese prostitute and her john are shotgunned to death in […]
Bloodsport In the wake of Bruce Lee’s sudden death in 1973, along with the now aborted influx of top Asian film stars following him right into Hollywood, the truth of Lee’s actual legacy was finally coming to light, that of which is the now common practice of non-Asian Westerners to take up and practice the […]
Blow Out The European “arthouse” cinema circuit has always been known as being exclusive to its continent of origin. Vague, colorful “artsy” films on whom their plots were little more than shoestrings from which to display their unique style up to and including the showcasing of sexual acts and outright sexual perversions, and also having […]