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Todd

  • Honey Ltd.: The Complete LHI Recordings

    Honey Ltd.: The Complete LHI Recordings

    Musicians like Lee Hazlewood rode an interesting wave during the late 60s, when midlife-addled moms and dads, eager not to be left behind by the caprices of a youth-driven culture, started to raid their children’s record collections. This opened the… more ›

  • The Sound of Wonder!

    The Sound of Wonder!

    The First Wave of Plugged-In Pop at the Pakistani Picture House The older Pakistani films that I’ve watched have struck me as being at once both primitive and forward-looking. (And I must add that the Pakistani films I’ve watched might not be… more ›

  • The Stabilizer

    The Stabilizer

    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 ›

  • Dark Heroine Muk Lan-Fa

    Dark Heroine Muk Lan-Fa

    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 of cinema. more ›

  • Black Rose

    Black Rose

    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 Bond films. more ›

  • Queen of the Swinging Mademoiselles

    Queen of the Swinging Mademoiselles

    A definitive Clothilde collection At the height of the Yeh Yeh Girl craze, literally dozens upon dozens of teenage girls filed through the recording studios of Western Europe and, from there, onto the airwaves. For every true artiste like Francoise… more ›

  • Seytan

    Seytan

    The whole world was making Exorcist rip-offs, so Turkey figured, why not? The special thing about Turkish pulp films is how, even at their most plagiarized, they can serve as an example of just how unique a complete rip-off can… more ›

  • The Killing of Satan

    The Killing of Satan

    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 around to dwell upon the ramifications. more ›

  • Fantomas

    Fantomas

    Silent-era supervillain and master of disguise Fantomas gets a candy-colored, stunt-filled update for the James Bond era. more ›

  • Iron Claw the Pirate

    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 of my life spent watching grown men in masks punching… more ›

  • Temptress of a Thousand Faces

    Temptress of a Thousand Faces

    The Shaw Brothers put a James sexy, psychedelic Bond-inspired spin on the French supervillain Fantomas in this anything-goes caper. more ›

  • Bloody Pit of Horror

    Bloody Pit of Horror

    Lurid is an important word to have on hand. It may comprise a mission statement on the part of the filmmakers. At least in terms of what they promise, which is thrills of a dark and unseemly nature. more ›