World War 4 New Zealand filmmaker A.K. Strom was a member of a military newsreel archive. During those years he got the best ingredients for making the most terrifying and realistic preparations for nuclear war ever shown on the screen. It is possible to summarize that throughout those years he managed to assemble a whole […]
Dark Island When it is a low-budget film that there isn’t a single recognisable name on the cast list, just that’s the proof that the budget didn’t allow bringing in a washed-up former tv star or a struggling hasbeen for even one day’s worth of shooting. Even worse is the case when all the names
Sirona You can’t say Wesley Clark doesn’t have ambition. Sirona is not only his first feature but also his sole IMDB credit, and he took on the triple duty of writing, directing, and starring in it. That’s to say nothing of his decision to try and make an X-Men movie on a decidedly non-blockbuster budget
Near Extinction: Shangri-La Sometimes all you need is a cheesy movie, and science fiction probably does the best job of that. I mean, look at “Battlestar Gallactica” (the 1978 film and series), “Space 1999”, or even the original “Star Trek” for that matter (those sets, Oy!). If that’s what you’re in the mood for, well,
Invader Invader is a science fiction film released directly to video in 1992 and directed by Philip J. Cook. The movie stars Hans Bachmann, A. Thomas Smith, and Rick Foucheux. The story is about a journalist who discovers that an extraterrestrial being has taken over an air force base in Washington, D.C., and must stop
MEAD The MEAD of 2022 is not like anything else. Indeed, nothing else is like it at all. If there are any resemblances to Pixar movies or the current Marvel zeitgeist, they stem from Richard Corben’s visual influence and style as well as Jan Strnad’s words; both men created these characters and designs in the
Xibalba Xibalba signifies the Mayan underworld or “The Place Of Fear” where Maya death gods reign supreme over human suffering. This is also the name of a Hardcore influenced Death Metal band from Pomona, California whose sound is monumentally heavy enough to crush anyone around it. Xibalba will release their fourth full length and first
Monsters Of Man An AI corporation which has manufactured robots designed for land warfare is being secretly negotiated with by the CIA. To assess the effectiveness of these troublemakers, they are deployed into the Golden Triangle on a mission to shut down an opium syndicate with maximum lethality. However, everything goes worse than bad when
Dark Island When sorting through movies and coming across a Thai import DVD of a low budget b-movie not yet released in the United States and that you bought months ago, you know you have too many movies in your collection. How do you forget about something like that? So I threw my import DVD
Battle of Los Angeles Most time travel movies focus on peeping at future advancements or jetting back in time to fix a boo-boo, save a life, personal to the traveler never screwing with the course of Christianity. Assassin 33 A.D. introduces us to Brandt (Donny Boaz), a former U.S. assassin who is quickly turned into
