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Crime

  • Battles without Honor and Humanity II

    Battles without Honor and Humanity II

    I’ve been sitting here trying to think of an adequate way to describe exactly what it is that Sonny Chiba does and wears in this second film in Kinji Fukasaku’s highly enjoyable, highly influential Battles without Honor and Humanity series… more ›

  • Hell Up In Harlem

    Made in eighteen days for less than half a million dollars, Black Caesar went on to become a big hit, and AIP were quick to demand that Cohen provide a sequel as soon as possible. Adding to the time pressure… more ›

  • Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

    Emboldened, perhaps, by the success of the first film and the amount of creative leeway given him by Toei, Ito this time largely dispensed with genre trappings and delivered a film that was even more obviously the product of a… more ›

  • Intrepidos Punks

    Though I didn’t realize it at the time, Teleport City was created for one reason and one reason only: to eventually review Intrepidos Punks. And now our destiny is at hand more ›

  • The Disembodied Head of Charles De Gaulle

    The Disembodied Head of Charles De Gaulle

    One can only imagine Fuller’s mental state when he wrote Brainquake, holed up as he was in Paris and haunted by visions of shrieking, insane chickens. more ›

  • Mayhem in Miami

    Mayhem in Miami

    Private dick Rod Striker navigates a chaotic mix of threats and romantic entanglements while trying to get some mooks off a society dame’s back. more ›

  • Kills and Thrills in the Hollywood Hills

    Kills and Thrills in the Hollywood Hills

    Robert Colby’s “The Star Trap” is a fast-paced hardboiled detective novel featuring Glenn Harley, an actor drawn into blackmail and murder, navigating Hollywood’s seedy underbelly. more ›

  • Cruel Gun Story

    Cruel Gun Story

    Ito and his boss want Togawa to carry out a robbery that they’ve planned, involving an armored car shipment of racetrack receipts worth 120 million yen, and have hand selected a crew of four men to assist him in the… more ›

  • Last Tycoon

    Last Tycoon

    You can’t go home again At first — and even second — glance, Last Tycoon is a movie that seems custom-made for me and based entirely on some of my favorite obsessions: Shanghai during the 20s and 30s, old-time fashion,… more ›

  • Bloody Tie

    Bloody Tie

    Bloody Tie sports all the polish and big budget precision typical of Korean action films but combines it with a frenetic, almost anarchic approach that makes the entire thing feel like it’s totally bonkers. more ›

  • Fantomas

    Fantomas

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