GHOSTS OF MARS *** USA 2001 Dir: John Carpenter. 98 mins One of Carpenter’s least admired movies, this formed part of his cycle of 90’s FX-driven studio movies and was also one of the decade’s under-performing big budget Mars movies. It’s a knockabout horror-infused action movie with a great cast,…
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ESCAPE FROM L.A. **** USA 1996 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins Paramount gave Carpenter his biggest budget to date to make his only sequel as director : the result, co-written with Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, was one of the most bleakest “fun” movies of the 1990’s. It follows other…
CLASS OF 1999 **** USA 1990 Dir: Mark L Lester. 92 mins Mark Lester’s non-sci-fi CLASS OF 1984 gets filtered through a nihilistic, post-ROBOCOP sensibility: in the near future, gang violence in schools has escalated to the extent that Kennedy High in Seattle is a Free Fire Zone the police…
SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM *** USA 1973 Dir: Bob Kelljan. 97 mins A superior sequel to BLACULA, with William Marshall’s Count revived in a 12 minute prologue and gaining Richard Lawson as an amusing new disciple: “Ah man are you jiving? I mean, I don’t mind bein’ a vampire and shit…
OH ‘BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA’ COME OUT TO PLAY AVAILABLE ON DVD & BLU-RAY, 4th APRIL 2016 Fresh off her career defining roles for Jack Hill in Coffy and Foxy Brown, Pam Grier continued her domination of the Blaxploitation genre, in cult filmmaker Eddie Romero’s Black Mama, White Mama released…