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  • Qurbani

    Qurbani

    The world of Qurbani is one in which mechanic Bob Christo has a free standing brick wall in his auto body shop just so he can demonstrate the power of his fists to any doubter who happens by. more ›

  • Hanuman and the 7 Ultramen

    Hanuman and the 7 Ultramen

    In 1973, Sompote Saengduenchai approached Tsubaraya Productions with the idea of co-producing a series of films that would team their heroes with figures from Thai folklore and mythology. more ›

  • Be-Sharam

    Be-Sharam

    Be-Sharam bears a strong resemblance to 1978’s Don because, like that film, it’s a tale — set against a funky urban backdrop — of a peaceful innocent masquerading as a suave underworld figure. more ›

  • Casus Kiran

    Casus Kiran

    More than any of the other examples of Turkish pulp cinema, Casus Kiran—a remake of the classic Republic serial Spy Smasher—has a sort of dreamlike quality., Plus, tons of action. more ›

  • Hausu

    Hausu also benefits greatly by comparison to contemporary Japanese horror movies, which typically suffer from their makers’ grim determination to make every moment pregnant with ominousness and foreboding–with the end result being films that are pretty much uniformly tedious and… more ›

  • Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams

    Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams

    As I’ve indicated, it won’t overwhelm you with its artistry, but it is a handsomely made film, and the performances are uniformly top notch. And because I didn’t have to spend half of its running time cringing and hoping that… more ›

  • Dharam-Veer

    Dharam-Veer

    In addition to the thrill of watching its spectacular musical numbers and beautiful stars, there is the singular thrill that comes from seeing combinations of color and fabric that will likely never be repeated in human history. more ›

  • Tahalka

    Tahalka

    Many of Tahalka’s exteriors and larger scale action sequences are accomplished by means of some particularly dodgy model work, which means that portions of Tahalka look like an especially half-assed episode of Thunderbirds. more ›

  • Tony Falcon, Agent X-44: Sabotage

    Want to see an updated, corrected, and generally better version of this article? Check it out at its new home on Suburban Pagans. The road that lead me to Tony Falcon, Agent X-44: Sabotage was, as is often the case… more ›

  • Golden Bat

    Golden Bat

    Sonny Chiba is on hand and does have his heroic moments, but the top-billed star seems content to blend into the background and let all of the insanity just happen around him — a very sensible attitude to take. more ›

  • Mr. India

    Mr. India

    For a movie as silly as Mr. India to sweep you up in its enthusiasms — getting you to root for an invisible Indian everyman against a jackbooted cartoon straw man called Mogambo — is pretty impressive in its own… more ›

  • Lady Terminator

    It’s dialog is ludicrous. It’s action is frenetic, and also ludicrous. It’s gore is gratuitous to the point of being… well, ludicrous. Everything about it is so much more than it needs to be. more ›