Author Archive: Retro

A rag-tag group of people must fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.

A young knight sets out on a quest to rescue a princess from an evil sorcerer, and must battle various mythical beings on the way. Written and Produced by Bert I. Gordon. Dir. Bert I. Gordon.

Two Chinese friends, who operate a food truck in Barcelona, Spain, use their martial arts expertise to help their private investigator friend protect the pickpocket Sylvia, who’s been targeted by a ruthless gang.

Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their step-father Charley (The Bonnie from the title being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle’s mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side.

In a complex sci-fi tale set at some point in the not-too-distant future, an evil industrialist named Francis Turner (John Saxon) has created Paco Querak (Daniel Greene), a cyborg who is 70% robot and 30% human. Paco has been programmed to murder a blind ecologist whose environmental activism does not sit well with Turner’s bottom-line motivation. But once he is set up to do his job, the 30% human component in Paco only permits him to injure the ecologist, not kill him. With the local police (and eventually just about everyone else) after him, Paco detours to Arizona to look for his true identity. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and imprisoned, the police pressure his sister, Tina Long, to help them locate and free him. She gets the help of Lee’s martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for the inevitable battle-royale with the drug gang, which includes masters of many different ‘schools’ of fighting.

Jackie Chan is a youngster, living in a remote vllage with his grandfather who teaches him Kung-Fu. Jackie, though, is tempted by some thugs he beat up to act as the master of a Kung-Fu school. This school’s name apparently spreads far, as an old enemy of Jackie’s grandfather shows up and kills him and Jackie is out to get revenge.

The legendary villain, who supposedly died, from the first movie, is back…with a vengeance! Has some funny scenes (the scene in the sauna), some dramatic scenes (the b&w flashbacks from Terry’s childhood), some very good fight-scenes (the scene in the alpes, the f?nal battle), some groovy martial arts weapon-scenes (the training in the Karate-school), and the theme is a classic!

A boy who was once bullied learns the art of nail throwing. A friend joins him as they team up and travel to challenge the Dragon.