HEADLINES Archive

  • 030/08/2014

    Diversions – 1976 / Director: Derek Ford

    What would Robin Askwith say? This is a 1970s British sex film which contains no hint at all of window cleaners, taxi drivers, driving instructors or pop performers. Instead we…

  • 013/08/2014

    Os Trapalhões na Guerra dos Planetas (Brazilian Star Wars) – 1978 / Director: Adriano Stuart

    What was Star Wars missing? George Lucas reckoned it needed a bit of fan-pissing-off CGI and so on. The Brazilians reckoned it needed car chases, Chewbacca smoking a cigarette and…

  • 009/08/2014

    Joe Kidd – 1972 / Director: John Sturges

    I watched Joe Kidd shortly after watching the new print of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on blu-ray. Needless to say, Joe didn’t hold up too well. There’s…

  • 006/08/2014

    Avenging Force – 1986 / Director: Sam Firstenberg

    How can you go wrong with a film like this? Directed by the man behind Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo and reuniting the only-slightly-homoerotic team from American Ninja, Avenging Force starts…

  • 003/08/2014

    Vampira – 1974 / Director: Clive Donner

    “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…

  • 002/08/2014

    Confessions of a Danish Cover Girl – 1974 / Director: Knud Leif Thomsen

    I’m looking at your big, beautiful cunt. My cock is just like an iron rod. With a title like that, you’d expect this to be a trouser-dropping farce starring Robin…

  • 001/08/2014

    Medic: Walk with Lions – 1955 / Director: Ted Post

    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…

  • 001/08/2014

    Shitterish Allsorts: Two Months of Random Hell.

    It all started several years ago – a message from Mike asking me if I could help out with The John Saxon Project, our foolhardy mission to watch every damn…

  • 030/07/2014

    The Worse of the Worse: Super Mario Bros. – 1993 / Directors: Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton

    Remember, trust the fungus. It’s pointless to say this is a bastardisation of the legendary Nintendo videogame franchise. When the Mushroom Kingdom – bright, colourful, housing homicidal Mantango mushrooms and…

  • 028/07/2014

    I’d Recognize That Penis Anywhere – American Sex Comedies and Teenage Sexuality

    Has anybody seen Mike Hunt? I hadn’t seen anybody’s cunt when I started watching these films, sometime in the early 80s. Remember, this was the days before the internet brought…

  • 026/07/2014

    WW…Whatever – Part 7

    Wrestlemania VII Superstars and Stripes Forever. That was the tag line for this red, white and blue Wrestlemania. The theme was the good ole U. S. of A. Cue Hacksaw…

  • 013/07/2014

    Thundercrack! – 1975 / Director: Curt McDowell

    What can you say about a film like this? A heady combination of The House on Haunted Hill, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, The Night of the Living Dead…

  • 009/07/2014

    Mutiny on the Buses – 1972 / Director: Harry Booth

    You lecherous moron. Hot on the heels of the massive success of the original On the Buses film came the inevitable sequel. Good news – its just as funny. This…

  • 005/07/2014

    What’s Good For the Goose – 1969 / Director: Menahem Golan

    What’s good for the goose is also -QUACK QUACK -good for the gander Since when have geese quacked? Oh well, that’s just one of the many questions you’ll ask yourself…

  • 001/07/2014

    You’re ‘Avin’ a Larf! British Comedy between 1963 and 1978

    Just think of British cinema in the 60s: Peeping Tom, Lawrence of Arabia, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, This Sporting Life and so…

  • 027/06/2014

    WW…Whatever – Part 6

    Wrestlemania VI This is the review I’ve been waiting for. I’m getting goosebumps thinking about what I’m going to write here. The SkyDome. Toronto, Canada. The first Wrestlemania to be…

  • 019/06/2014

    The Worse of the Worse: The Pumaman – 1980 / Director: Alberto De Martino

    Jane Dobson: Have you ever made love in the air? Prof. Tony Farms: How else would you make little puma men? What exactly is the worse of cinema? As the…

  • 015/06/2014

    The Black Alley Cats – 1973 / Director: Henning Schellerup

    Touch your cunt. Go on – do it! Oh man, after watching this, you KNOW you’ve just watched something incredible. A multi-racial bunch of girls are raped by a gang…

  • 015/06/2014

    Right On, Sweet Sisters!

     When you think about Blaxploitation cinema, the first thing that probably comes to mind is John Shaft mixin’ it up with the Mob, or Superfly havin’ to dump a whole…

  • 211/06/2014

    Across 110th Street – 1972 / Director: Barry Shear

     Mattelli! Get down!   By 1972, Blaxploitation was seriously rolling. In ’71, Sweet Sweetback had set the attitude. Shaft had set the style – now the stage was set for…

  • 005/06/2014

    Black Shampoo – 1976 / Director: Greydon Clark

    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…

  • 002/06/2014

    Black Gunn – 1972 / Director: Robert Hartford-Davis

    “For a white girl you’re not bad.” “Thank you, and for a black man you’re not bad either.” The Blaxsploitation genre from the seventies had the tendency to be very…

  • 001/06/2014

    Black History Month

    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…

  • 031/05/2014

    Celluloid Wunderkammer: The Devil’s Wedding Night – 1973 / Director: Luigi Batzella (and Joe D’Amato)

    Openly, The Devil’s Wedding Night is not a great European horror film but it reinforces why I love Euro horror too. If ever there was an area of cinema where…

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