Author Archive: Retro

Chan’s directorial debut is a surprisingly assured piece of work, easily confirming why Chan is the most talented superstar in the world today. As you’d expect, the fight sequences are breathtaking to watch, amazingly inventive and beautifully choreographed. Similarly, the joky historical story is typical Chan: he plays a blundering fool out to find his brother who has turned to the dark side. Mistaken identity mishaps ensue. The film concludes with a kick ass TWELVE MINUTE one-on-one fight sequence: totally unheard of in Hollywood, yet in Chan’s hands it it totally watchable and works very well. Yet another hit from the Jackie Chan fun factory.

A sinister character boards the Rome Express on the trail of a valuable Van Dyck painting, recently stolen from a Paris gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train populated with a motley assortment of passengers, including adulterous lovers, a very annoying golf fanatic, a French police chief and an American silent film star any one of whom could have the painting he desperately seeks.

Wife stands by her husband when he is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

The wife of a struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic affair with him, or he will leak evidence implicating her husband of murder.

Robot Monster may well be the worst science fiction film ever made (Plan 9 From Outer Space is its main competition for that dubious honor), but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t fun to watch. Filmed in an eye-straining 3D process, this curious melange takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Evidently, there are only six people left on earth: little Johnny (Gregory Moffett), his sisters Alice (Claudia Barrett) and Carla (Pamela Paulson), his widowed mother (Selena Royle), his supposed father the Professor (John Mylong) and the prof’s assistant Roy (George Nader). As the survivors wander around Bronson Canyon, the Professor comes to the conclusion that the rest of the world has been wiped out by a “calcinator death ray,” wielded by an army of creatures from the planet Ro-Man. The invaders are supposed to be killer robots, but they look more like gorillas in diving helmets (that’s because gorilla impersonator George Barrows supplied his own [...]

Hot-rodding, fun-loving teens in a desolate Texas town fight a giant lizard which is menacing their community. Dir. Ray Kellogg