Tag: action movies
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Extreme Cinema! “Is It Safe?”
Would ya do me a kindness? Don’t slam the fuckin’ door! So, we usually talk about movie directors on the fringe with their respective peers. The first episode we recorded was about the deceased David A. Prior, low-to-no budget filmmaker, Deadly Prey and The Deadliest Prey. Fred Olen Ray, Mark Goldblatt, Rowdy Herrington. Tonight, we’re…
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Extreme Cinema! “Fu-Man Chews”
Robert Englund makes a cameo as the bus driver in the dream sequence that begins the movie. Christopher Young, an enormously talented film composer, does the score. He did a great score for The Fly II and the Hellraiser movies. I know this because I have several of his scores on tape and compact disc.…
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Extreme Cinema! “Mairzy Dotes and Dozy Dotes”
Tonight, we discuss the work of director Rowdy Herrington. Among many other movies, Herrington gave us Patrick Swayze’s seminal Road House, the Citizen Kane of round-house kick movies and “new Saturday night things!” Andrew and I look at Jack’s Back from 1988 and Gladiator from 1992. It’s our way or the highway … TONIGHT! Written by…
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Extreme Cinema! “Kill This Guy, Would You?”
Dead Heat is a 1988 American action comedy horror film directed by Mark Goldblatt and starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo and Vincent Price. The B movie is about an LAPD police officer who is murdered while attempting to arrest zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out…
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Vintage Cable Box: Q: The Winged Serpent, 1982
“New York is famous for good eating.” Q: The Winged Serpent, 1982 (David Carradine), United Film Distribution Company You can almost hear the surge of John Williams’ famous two-note tone poem, except that instead of swimming the murky depths of the North Atlantic, we’re soaring across the magnificence that is the New York City skyline.…
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Extreme Cinema! “Stop Talking and Start Driving”
Tonight, we kick off our premiere episode of Extreme Cinema! Action and Exploitation Movies with Andrew La Ganke & David Lawler with David A. Prior’s action thriller, “Deadly Prey” from 1987, and then we discuss the 2013 sequel, “The Deadliest Prey” starring his brother, Ted Prior. Written by David Lawler and Andrew La Ganke. “Love…
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NEW PODCAST: “All Outta Bubble Gum”
“They Live” is a 1988 American satirical science fiction horror film written and directed by John Carpenter. The film stars Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster. It follows a nameless drifter (called “John Nada” in the credits), who discovers the ruling class are in fact aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to…
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Vintage Cable Box: “The Osterman Weekend, 1983”
“The truth is a lie that hasn’t been found out.” The Osterman Weekend, 1983 (Rutger Hauer), 20th Century Fox Inappropriate saxophone-laden soap opera/porno movie/elevator music (by Lalo Schifrin) accompanies the opening credits, wherein John Hurt is doing the deed with a french lady I can only presume is his trophy wife. Men in black (on…
Misadventures in Blissville 