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I'm kind of busy right now even though I'm on vacation so I have to keep these reviews a little short....
STRAY DOG-(Nora inu)-1949-Akira Kurosawa’s early classic film about the frantic search for a homicide detective’s missing gun. Several murder victims are found, killed with bullets from his gun. A very young Toshiro Mifune plays the harried detective Murakami and Takashi Shimura (the Japanese John Carradine) is another detective who helps him. Kurosawa had already made THOSE WHO TREAD ON THE TIGER’S TAIL and DRUNKEN ANGEL but would only establish himself the next year with RASHOMON. Sometimes overlooked STRAY DOG is a must see!!
SPIDERBABE-2003-This is a soft-core porn version of SPIDER-MAN (duh..) featuring Misty Mundae as Patricia Poker, a nerdy girl who gets spider type powers and has sex with many women. She fights a super villain called Femtilian and likes a guy named MJ. It copies several scenes from Sam Raimi’s better-known version (and one from BATMAN & ROBIN) but it’s all extremely low budget and badly executed (even for a direct to video porn). Mundae has starred in a lot of direct to video porn recently many of them horror themed including LUST FOR DRACULA, VAMPIRE VIXENS and SCREAMING DEAD.
MONSTER ROAD-2004-This is an interesting documentary about the brilliant but eccentric clay animator Bruce Bickford. It examines his influences, his ideas, his painstaking technique and philosophy in his own words and those of his father a retired Boeing engineer now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Excerpts of his work are shown and they might make you want to see more. He’s also the subject of THE AMAZING MR. BICKFORD (1987) a video that was released by Frank Zappa who used much of his animation in his BABY SNAKES.
KING BOXER-1971-Not very thrilling Martial Arts film that begins with a seemingly endless scene of a couple riding an elephant. A group of friends get revenge for the killing of their “King of Boxers”. Like many boring Kung-Fu movies this one is saved by a bloody out of control finale. One of the stars Meng Fei was later in 5 FINGERS OF DEATH. Japanese actor Yasuaki Kurata who plays the main villain here later produced & starred in BLOODFIGHT (1989) a Japanese rip-off of DEATHSPORT done in English!
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Posted by CavedogRob on 2007-11-29 12:43:54 | Rating: | Views: 76
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ookay, you have left me alot tto read, so will c&p - hugs
aand thanks poppet for everything, you are great
wwarm hugs
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Posted by kentlass
on 2007-11-29 17:24:10
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Akira Kurosawa. I've read a lot about him and his movies. He gets a lot of high ratings for his films in the video/movie guides I've read.
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Posted by SubTomato
on 2007-12-01 07:06:43
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