10 Things You Didn’t Know About Platoon

Watching any film with commentary by master director Oliver Stone is nothing less than impressive. Now imagine watching a film directed by Oliver Stone based on experiences from Stone’s own time in Vietnam. It’s some...

No Surrender Cinema: China O’Brien II

China O’Brien’s trip back home turned deadly, but after avenging her father’s murder, she remained in her hometown to protect and serve as an ass-kicking sheriff who kept the people safe. Now, a new criminal...

Bullet Points: Challenge the Ninja

It’s that time once again to enter the wonderful world of Godfrey Ho! More specifically one of Mr. Ho’s numerous contributions to the ninja genre. This time out I turn my attention to 1986’s Challenge...

My Love Letter to Blue Beetle

You could say that I experienced “superhero fatigue” about 7 years ago. For a guy who has collected comic books for 35 years and spent decades begging for superhero films to be made to just...

Bullet Points: The Beekeeper

Action fanatics have been buzzing about The Beekeeper since the trailer dropped late last year. And for good reason… the trailer featured revenge filled action and the man dishing it out, one of the last...

Bullet Points: Rapid Fire (1989)

One day I was having a conversation with Anthony Criss (Treach for those in the know) and he asked me a simple question, “You down with AIP?”. My response was, “Yeah, you know me.” As...

Bullet Points: Born American

Sometimes movies teach me something I never knew before, but other times they just reinforce what I already know. The 1986 movie Born America fits into the latter; i.e., don’t end up in a Siberian...

Bullet Points: Thunder Run

When Cannon wasn’t producing their own films or buying movie theaters, they were distributing films for other producers. Such was the case for Thunder Run… Thunder Run was a movie that was way better than...