Cinema Strikes Back
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Movie reviews, news and interviews since 2004. We particularly love the unusual and absurd – kung fu, giallo, Czech New Wave, etc. Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/tVcR
Kinda loved Shūji Teryama’s The Boxer (1977). Pretty funny that it really is just a straight-faced and straight-laced boxing drama without any swerves or collapses of diegetic delirium, but GOD the textures are so good and dank, even before Terayama‘s characteristic kaleidoscope starts working.
Unmistakably the work of a fan--I mean that as a compliment. Only an adoring devotee of ultra-violent comic books and stomach-churning splatter fests could've created this. Whatever its flaws, ROBOT NINJA is bursting w/ the passion of a dude making the sort of flick he himself would love to see.
Gaijin Rando@gaijinrando.bsky.social · 7h agoNow watching ROBOT NINJA (1989), a superhero horror film in which an artist becomes so enraged that his comic book, Robot Ninja, has been turned into a campy tv show that he begins dressing like the title character and dedicates himself to offing criminals Written and directed by J.R. Bookwalter
I would say the bus fight from the first Transporter, but honestly, there’s no question, it’s this, the best fight scene from the best Jason Statham movie.
Crank 2: High Voltage (10/12) Movie CLIP - Chevzilla, King of the Monsters! (2009) HD
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Jordan Crucchiola@jorcru.bsky.social · yesterdayWho’s gonna challenge me on what 3 Jason Statham fights are MOST essential?? news.rsclfilms.com/celebrating-...
#Watched Alum and Eve (1932) - “Oh stop fussing, Zasu, they’ll only cut you a little.” Our two pretty doofuses pretend Pitts is pregnant to avoid a speeding ticket. Top notch slapstick and gratuitous shift wearing ensue.
Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 5d ago#Watched Asleep in the Feet (1933) - Delightful. ZaSu Pitts’ confused attempt at “sexy” dancing is some primo physical comedy.
Essence of peplum in a nutshell (pun intended”
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I admire the folks that run the Warner Archive Collection, especially when it comes to the animation home video releases. Truly folks that are in it for the love of the game.
Just realizing now that this was the same Daniel Kraus who wrote Whalefall, which I really enjoyed.
Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm reading Daniel Kraus' wonderful breakdown of Night of the Living Dead PARTIALLY DEVOURED, and it's terrific. But.. Johnny is CLEARLY doing a Boris Karloff accent in NIGHT, right?
More accursed items. whither the Danger Women and for what are they shopping, switchblades?
Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother accursed item - same place. They must have a pipeline to some warehouse in hell.
Sticky Nikki all done and ready to join my Escher gang #necromunda #warhammer
Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 4w agoWe’re doing a limited campaign start with three fighters, so think I’ll take these three out for my starter Thin Coat Lizzies (honestly I have no idea how to play this game, it’s simple on its face but so complicated under the hood) #necromunda
#Watched Asleep in the Feet (1933) - Delightful. ZaSu Pitts’ confused attempt at “sexy” dancing is some primo physical comedy.
Gaijin Rando@gaijinrando.bsky.social · last wk.Images from comedy shorts starring the duo of Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd Todd was BOTD in 1906 Sealskins (1932) Alum and Eve (1932) Asleep in the Feet (1933) The Bargain of the Century (1933)
just found out today that my former stepfather passed away last week (a couple months after my father in law also passed). Very difficult man, very fraught relationship with him over decades before he and my mother finally divorced. He was a walking Boston accent with a five pack a day voice.
THE CRIME HUNTER TRILOGY North American Premieres for 2 & 3 With an introduction by the esteemed @timessqkungfu.bsky.social AUGUST 22nd - 8:30 PM
UNDISPUTED II Q&A w/ Michael Jai White hosted by yours truly: @a4epodcast.bsky.social, with @hibachijustice.bsky.social , @vycevictus.bsky.social , Liam, and Producer @odstspartan.bsky.social AUGUST 22nd - 2:30 PM
#moreunreadpilecatchup Swords of the Swashbucklers (Mantlo/Guice et al 1984-87) - backed as a tribute to the great Bill Mantlo. Occasionally clumsy and overstuffed but how can I argue with epic spacefaring pirate adventure, great art, Evil Mantis Spock, grumpy lesbian bathtime, and Space Japan.
Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 2w ago#moreunreadpilecatchup Absolute Wonder Woman Vol 1 (Thompson/Sherman 2024) - well I absolutely adored this, it exceeded my (high) expectations. Mythology, kaiju, Diana as the best of us. And the way Sherman draws Diana’s face, rounded instead of sharp, full of love instead of anger. Ah, a pleasure.
Chelo Alonso and Aldo Pedinotti goofing around during the making of ATLAS IN THE LAND OF THE CYCLOPS (1964)
#Watched Zetsuosore Taikan Kimodameshi (aka very roughly A Spine-Chilling Test of Courage) (2014) - Four short experimental POV horrors from Shiraishi. My favorite was the second, a tour of sorts of a haunted asylum, which just about every spooky ever.
Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 12mo ago#Watched Grotesque (2009) - Truth in advertising. Though “Reprehensible” would be just as good a title. I’m glad folks warned me not to start my Shiraishi journey here, bc it would have ended here. I actually feel like a worse human being for having seen this, the very definition of torture porn. /1
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Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · last wk.#Rewatched Drip-Along Daffy (1951) - tough to beat as a “throw everything against the wall” western parody, only Blazing Saddles and Wild Gals of the Naked West come close to the sheer volume of tropes skewered per second. And Daffy calling Nasty Canasta “Hom-burr” is the best.
#Rewatched Drip-Along Daffy (1951) - tough to beat as a “throw everything against the wall” western parody, only Blazing Saddles and Wild Gals of the Naked West come close to the sheer volume of tropes skewered per second. And Daffy calling Nasty Canasta “Hom-burr” is the best.
Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 11mo ago#Rewatched Ali Baba Bunny (1957) - Oh man, I saw this so many times as a kid that “Hassan Chop!” entered my vocabulary subcutaneously like a Simpsons quote - I’m literally only recalling right now watching this that it comes from here and not some weird kung fu movie.
Sliced Swiss cheese from May, safe to eat or bad idea (For the record I have a poor sense of smell and previously demonstrated poor judgment about such things 😆)
Tom and Jerry: Jerry Peeks from Cheese
Alt: Tom and Jerry: Jerry Peeks from Cheese
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Knock knock Who’s there? The Sea Peoples Sea Peoples who? (remainder of joke not recorded because the Sea Peoples killed everybody who knew how to write down a punchline and burnt down their cities)
Cinema Strikes Back@cinemastrikesback.bsky.social · 10mo ago#Read 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Cline 2014) - Sea Peoples: Not Guilty? Guilty with an Explanation? Fascinating comprehensive study of the interconnected societies of the Late Bronze Age and the possible reasons for their collapse. Big Ugarit stan here.
