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...
Maria Conchita Alonso
THE RUNNING MAN is America
“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” is a well-known phrase from the Declaration of Independence but for our purposes, I think the emphasis in this phrase should have been on the word “pursuit”. By the...
Scene of the Week: Extreme Prejudice – Gas Station Shootout
It would be hard to find a director with the action resume that Walter Hill has. Since his directorial debut in 1975 with Hard Times, Hill has consistently put out intensely satisfying action films starring a...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Predator 2
Many of the movies I grew up loving as a kid are still ones that I re-visit to this day. I guess that means that I either had amazing taste in action movies as a young...
Bullet Points: Kill’em All
There may be no better way to spend a Monday night than to lounge back in my comfy chair with a few beverages on standby while I take in the newest Jean Claude Van Damme movie....
Scene of the Week: Extreme Prejudice
For those of you who haven’t seen the 1987 film Extreme Prejudice, it stars Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Maria Concita Alonso, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown and William Forsythe. I know what you’re thinking; that...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Running Man
When Rob Cohen and the makers of The Running Man optioned the novella written by Richard Bachman they had no idea that old Dick was actually veteran horror master Stephen King. If only they had Googled...
Damsels: Maria Conchita Alonso
Maria Conchita Alonso, which is a name that I can’t say without my stereotypical Latino accent, is one of the first names that come to mind when I think of the beauties of the 1980’s. Her...
Bullet Points: The Running Man
It is Halloween today and when you think of Halloween and movies, you probably aren’t thinking about action movies. You may be thinking of some classic Universal Monsters movies or maybe a slasher flick or possibly...
