Chris The Brain

Bullet Points: Moscow Heat

Over the years I have watched and reviewed numerous Alexander Nevsky movies, but Moscow Heat provided me the opportunity to watch one of Nevsky’s earlier efforts in the world of action movies… in fact it was...

Bullet Points: Brothers in Blood

Vietnam themed action movies were all the rage in the 1980s after the box office success of Sylvester Stallone’s First Blood and its sequels. At the height of their popularity, there were Rambo-esque movies being made...

Bullet Points: Three Kinds of Heat

For years I was operating under the assumption that Robert Ginty’s Cannon career began and ended with 1984’s Exterminator 2. Then while reading my copy of Austin Trunick’s The Cannon Film Guide Volume II, I learned...

Soundtraxx: The JCVD Edition

Jean-Claude Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Brussels, Belgium on October 18, 1960. In honor of JCVD’s birthday I wanted to throw “The Muscles from Brussels” a party of sorts here on...

Bullet Points: Blood Warriors

1993’s Blood Warriors is a movie I have been meaning to revisit for quite some time. I watched it years ago and it didn’t exactly leave a good first impression despite being directed by one of...

Bullet Points: McBain (1991)

1991’s McBain, written and directed by James Glickenhaus, is my latest “How in the hell have I never seen this before?” movie and is now the topic of this edition of Bullet Points… There is no...

20 Reasons Why You Rock: 10 to Midnight

Like many movie lovers, October is the time of year when I try to cram in as many horror movies into my schedule as possible. Now there are plenty of my personal horror favorites that I...

Bullet Points: Shark Attack

As a big Casper Van Dien fan I have seen him battle a wide variety of foes over the years. I am talking about everything from giant space bugs to greedy treasure hunters to tornados (including...