Author Archive: Retro

Gutsy boxer never gives up on his championship mission.

One half of the movie follows a guy named Sam and his friend Gus. Sam gets scratched by a radioactive cat in a fight with some wacky drug addicts and achieves amazing super powers. He then puts on a stupid costume and decides to fight some bad guys using his new powers, including a crazed priest named Cheever. The other half of the movie is a about a whole buch of Asian people that are just beating each other up for no reason, including a tall guy with an eyepatch and a woman that looks like a man.

Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an aging scientist to protect him and his invention, a radar-like mind-control device capable of forcing soldiers to fight. A rival organization kidnaps his son to get the machine.

Maribel, a young typist, goes to work in a construction company as secretary of the director, Don Ignacio. To seduce the girl, he gets a loan so that the parents can buy a new home and that way he gets Maribel to accompany him to London. They start an affair in London. Upon their return to Madrid, both continue their relationship until Carlos appears, a young journalist whom she knows when he interviews the builder. They go out together and the boy falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Maribel is unable to bear the double relationship, talks to both willing to do anything.

Villains are surprised by a brainy Volkswagen Beetle engaged in espionage.

In the early 1900s in Poland, two Jewish horse traders make a determined effort to keep a Cossack captain and his men from taking their horses for the Russo-Japanese war. Somewhat entertaining, but slow-paced and never really becomes the comedy it strives for.