Ben Nagy reviews ‘Spree’: Ride-share driver runs amok and streams the whole dang thing
An astute commenter on Facebook a few months back reminded me that April was Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Here in Ohio, that now means that using a phone while driving is a pull-overable offense. Post-pandemic, because I’m one of those folks who has been re-indoctrinated into the experience of having a lengthy commute five days […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Thaw’: It’s what you get when you blend ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ ‘Cabin Fever’ and ‘The Thing’ and add 100% more Val Kilmer
For about three years there in the late oughts around the time Arthur C. Clarke said that Roy Scheider was supposed to use a monolith to turn Jupiter into a second sun, thus saving us from a nuclear war with the Soviets (whoops), Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert (they’re still around but Roy isn’t), launched […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Recoil’: Stone Cold faces off with Danny Trejo in revenge-on-crime flick
As usual, I’m running late again with another one of my themed flick reviews. I really, really wanted to get this one up in time for “Stone Cold” Steve Austin Day on 3/16, but this research project came up for Joe Bob that involved a bunch of in-depth discussions about time-traveling rabbits and so I […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Red 11’: In which a big-budget filmmaker heads back to his roots to tell his low-budget origin story
It’s the stuff that 1990s filmmaking legends are made of. Back in the old days when a guy named Tarantino was transitioning from being a video clerk to a guy who would become an in-demand screenwriter and revered director, another guy named Robert Rodriguez also wanted to make a dang movie. Rodriguez, a Texas guy, […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘BKO: Bangkok Knockout’: Kung-fu fight club goes on rescue mission against ninjas
We’re closing out the first-ever Kung Fu-bruary with one last ultraviolent kick to the jaw. Since absolutely NO ONE (except you 50 or so devoted people) wanted to read about a near kid-friendly kung-fu comedy alliance flick, I shan’t make that mistake again. I mean, the last time there was so much disinterest in a […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Kung Fu League’: Four legendary kung-fu characters grant pining, whining wimp his wish
We’re back with two more kung-fu flick reviews to close out our inaugural Kung Fu-bruary. (The month went by quick, no?) Kung Fu League from 2018 takes a typical plot of a sad-sack nerd dreamer guy who has fantasies of overcoming the bully, escaping his mundane life and getting the girl — a tale as […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Last Heist’: Who’s more dangerous — the robbers with guns or the guy who carves out eyeballs?
We’re taking a brief one-review break from Kung Fu flicks to mark the 62nd Annual Henry Rollins Day that happened last week with a 2016 flick that features his most-recent lead starring role to date — The Last Heist. Mike Mendez, director of Big Ass Spider! and Lavalantula, a couple of notable arachnid rampage flicks […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Triple Threat’: Fans of old-school Cannon flicks are gonna love this
The second furious flick we’re taking a look at here in Kung Fu-bruary is Triple Threat that got released in 2019 after a bunch of Chinese financiers said, “hey, we want to get in the movie business. Let’s get a mess of direct-to-video action flick stars and throw them in the jungle, like in a […]
Ben Nagy reviews “The Fists of Bruce Lee”: Way, Way Too Much Plot to Get in the Way of the Chopsocky
Before we get into Kung Fu-bruary proper, have to get a quick note of congratulations out to filmmaker Ricky Glore, the stand-up comedian who decided to do a microbudget campout slasher flick down in Cinci-tucky that cost less to make than the last time Joe Burrow treated all his offensive linemen to an all-you-can-eat lunch […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Devil’s Pass’: No snow monster to be found and no Devil, either
After the last Bigfoot-Abominable Snowman-type movie I watched, I promised everyone that I’d go ahead and check out a better one because I couldn’t let the best movie I ever reviewed about an abominable snow beast be just one star. So I dove into the physical media dungeon in my basement and found a flick […]