Oh the middle class angst! the first world problem of a camping holiday in Salisbury when what you’d really hoped for was a couple of weeks in Monte Carlo! Such…
“If this is progress, I don’t think I like it…” Clive Donner‘s Blaxploitation Horror Comedy Vampira, is so carried away with being, separately, a Blaxploitation picture, a Horror movie and…
And so we come to that glorious moment in The John Saxon Project – the very first credited role for our main man John Saxon, WAY back in 1955 as lead…
“Bon ‘appytits!” Ah, the 70s. Those halcyon days! A fun time for us fun-loving Brits. A time where homophobia and casual racism was just light hearted horseplay, where unfinished hotels…
If I were a self employed cab driver, working every hour God sent to put food on my plate and a roof over my head, the last thing I would…
In an intense display of retro enthused reverence and, just as likely, in tribute to the homespun aesthetic of SOV film-making that had helped to sustain the trusty VHS format…
When East Meets West… All Hell breaks loose! Blaxploitation’s Indian Summer was a pretty desperate one. Utilising the most iconic of players, those still clinging on to their waning marketable…
Ray Milland is a racist bigot and a surgical genius. He’s also terminally ill and needs to find a healthy body to transplant his head. Enter Rosey Grier, a death…
Criticism of Blaxploitation tends to focus on its cynical exploitation of the black experience for white commercial gain. And although this was almost certainly the case, the genre also managed…
Quite frankly, why we haven’t reviewed That Man Bolt in this season of Blaxploitation is beyond me. That man, Fred “The Hammer” Williamson enjoys the time of his life as…
On that rare occasion in which I decide to do something about my unruly mop of hair, and once having feigned pleasantries and explained what I’d like doing with my…
The first Blaxploitation flick I ever saw was Diamonds a middling heist thriller set in Israel, that had been “liberated” from a rental store and so came without a cover….
As William Witney‘s Darktown Strutters would testify to, it wasn’t all Ghetto Freaks, Drug Deals and Mob Wars…
An NFL All-Star cast, including “Mean” Joe Greene and Gene Washington come together to form the “Black Six”, a “right on” band of Vietnam Vet, motorcycling heroes, hell bent on…
Here are two very different trailers for the same film: Sign of Aquarius is a pretty dreary, flower power hippy movie (a “tribal rock musical film”), but that didn’t stop…
“tick… tick… tick… and a town turns into a time bomb!” Closer in tone to the white bread Poitier movies that had performed so well in the 60′s, this film only…
Black is Back! Motherfucker! A genre close to the collective VTSS heart, though one strangely neglected of late, returns in full aplomb this month with a fresh set of film…
“If you have the guts… He wants them!!” You’ve gotta hand it to Don Dohler‘s NightBeast. What it lacks in originality (the premise was already well worn by 1982) and…
A Turkish movie also known as Last House in Istanbul ?, Osman F. Seden’s film is clearly sculpted in the same mould as Last House on the Left, but it…
Our main man, John Saxon takes centre stage in this episode of Ray Bradbury’s Theatre – a rather self congratulatory teleplay, The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone. In it, Saxon…
Let’s hear it for the proto-Photoshop collage style! Salute the prolificacy of Cunyet Arkin in mid-kick pose! Rejoice in the excessive use of vowels and groovy cedillas! Here’s 30 of…
If, like me, you’re fond of Italo/Turkish crime capers, rambling nonsensical narratives, time machines that take you back to the late Byzantine period, heroin smugglers, belly dancers, conniving health care…
Own Brand Baked Beans?! 13p?! Instant Coffee?! 47p?! New Zealand Butter?! 19p?! I don’t care if I start hearing voices in my head, or freak out at the meat counter…
Zombie Juice! Fantastic stuff from Blue Tongue.
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Joe Kidd – 1972 / Director: John Sturges
Medic: Walk with Lions – 1955 / Director: Ted Post
The Ray Bradbury Theatre: The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone – 1989 / Director: David Copeland
Night Caller From Outer Space – 1965 / Director: John Gilling
Saxon in Space!