Author: Todd
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It’s a cause for celebration when a B movie delivers as spectacularly as Wahan Ke Log does, especially given that its genre elements also have to make room for the… more ›
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Forbidden Photos is not an exceptionally plotted giallo. Nonetheless, it has a structure sturdy enough upon which to hang a lot of crazy mid-century design more ›
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Examples of Egyptian filmmaking date back to the beginning of the 20th century, with Cairo becoming a hub of commercial filmmaking in the Arab world with the introduction of sound. more ›
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Alfred Hitchcock’s original 1935 version of The 39 Steps is one of those films that’s so seminal that when watched today it can seem like little more than a parade… more ›
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Interpol 009 has everything you’d want in a 1960s spy movie, except for a memorable villain, a spectacular crime, and audacious action set pieces. more ›
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Arizal and Peter O-Brian team up once again to deliver an action film that’s only goal is to give you everything you could possibly want. more ›
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Jane Bond films, such as Dark Heroine Muk Lan-Fa, blended martial arts action and James Bond-inspired espionage thrills, became a staple of Cantonese cinema and created a thoroughly entertaining body… more ›
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The Black Rose takes the female-centric swashbuckling of wuxia cinema and the heroics of Chinese folklore and places them in a contemporary setting. It also pays service to the James… more ›
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Given its title, I don’t think it’s much of a spoiler to reveal that, at the end of The Killing of Satan, Satan is killed, though the movie doesn’t stick… more ›
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For myself, I would like to believe that watching Iron Claw the Pirate enriched my life in some imperceptible–if perhaps stupid–way, even though it really just represents another ninety minutes… more ›
Teleport City 